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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2010, 12:28:14 PM »
Good post, DW...

I do like to learn about "how things work" or are done.

No grass cutting, errands to run...etc. 

Is basic housekeeping, latrines, dishes and maintenance stuff done while on duty?

If so, on your 12 off, you get 8 hours to sleep and 4 all yours...more than most 8hr folks get in a work day..

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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2010, 07:38:55 PM »
FQ,

You need to remember that these workers are also on the rig all the time.  When they get done with their 12 hours on, there is limited activity.  There are some creature comforts, but these guys aren't out "bar hopping" all evening.  They are in a fairly well controlled environment, and they are there to work, eat and sleep.  Also, for those that make the cut, they are used to the riggers of 12 on, 12 off for three weeks.
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2010, 05:21:32 AM »
I am now sailing as second engineer, this takes a lot of 'sea time' to upgrade, and I have achieved this in record time, by sailing about ten months per year. 12 hour days, 7 days a week. and I'm still (somewhat) normal.


I will say though, the oil field does build character.....    ;D

now I'm in Guam (god help us if it tips over!) and having some wicked good fun... all night long. and tomorrow I go back to my 12 hour work day.   life is good.
I love my fu^%&#ing job and my job loves fu*&%ing me!  ;)

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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2010, 05:38:55 AM »
Quote from: deepwater on May 14, 2010, 05:21:32 AM
I am now sailing as second engineer, this takes a lot of 'sea time' to upgrade, and I have achieved this in record time, by sailing about ten months per year. 12 hour days, 7 days a week. and I'm still (somewhat) normal.


I will say though, the oil field does build character.....    ;D

now I'm in Guam (god help us if it tips over!) and having some wicked good fun... all night long. and tomorrow I go back to my 12 hour work day.   life is good.
I love my fu^%&#ing job and my job loves fu*&%ing me!  ;)

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Then you are a lucky man, and I stand corrected. The only reason I got pissy about this to begin with was that I dated a trauma surgeon in the middle of her seven year internship in a busy Miami ER. The hours were insane. Hundred hour weeks were the norm and having to attend a four hour debriefing on M&M (morbidity and mortality) as well as writing up your notes was a "day off". I saw what this did to her. I also know damn well that I would sure rather have had her operating on me after a weekend off, then at the end of 4 days on call. The medical community puts up with this to limit the supply of doctors and to cram 20 years of knowledge into a dozen years of school and internships. Still, expecting people who are physically and mentally exhausted to perform mentally demanding and physically challenging work (like a 6 hour operation to repair a gun shot wound) after not havining seen your own bed in 4 days, or gotten more than 2 consecutive hours of sleep, strikes me as a bad idea. And a forseesable and avoidable risk.
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2010, 05:43:00 AM »
Quote from: fightingquaker13 on May 14, 2010, 05:38:55 AM
Then you are a lucky man, and I stand corrected. The only reason I got pissy about this to begin with was that I dated a trauma surgeon in the middle of her seven year internship in a busy Miami ER. The hours were insane. Hundred hour weeks were the norm and having to attend a four hour debriefing on M&M (morbidity and mortality) as well as writing up your notes was a "day off". I saw what this did to her. I also know damn well that I would sure rather have had her operating on me after a weekend off, then at the end of 4 days on call. The medical community puts up with this to limit the supply of doctors and to cram 20 years of knowledge into a dozen years of school and internships. Still, expecting people who are physically and mentally exhausted to perform mentally demanding and physically challenging work (like a 6 hour operation to repair a gun shot wound) after not havining seen your own bed in 4 days, or gotten more than 2 consecutive hours of sleep, strikes me as a bad idea. And a forseesable and avoidable risk.
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well, like I said, not everyone can be an engineer. anybody else for a gin & tonic? how about a Guinness?
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I love my job!!!!!   ;D
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2010, 05:51:38 AM »
Quote from: deepwater on May 14, 2010, 05:43:00 AM
well, like I said, not everyone can be an engineer. anybody else for a gin & tonic? how about a Guinness?
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I love my job!!!!!   ;D
Get to So. Fl. and TW and I will buy you one of each. We just might do it several times. ;D And here folks thought you and Haz were dangerous. ;)
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #26 on: May 14, 2010, 06:00:42 AM »
Quote from: fightingquaker13 on May 14, 2010, 05:51:38 AM
Get to So. Fl. and TW and I will buy you one of each. We just might do it several times. ;D And here folks thought you and Haz were dangerous. ;)
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well... TW has already gotten the DW tanked on Red Stripes, and of course, Dw and Haz, well,,,,,,,, we just may be dangerous.. sorry, maybe hell. we are dangerous.  ;D
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oh yeah, Guinness, draught please....  ;D
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2010, 06:10:34 AM »
Quote from: deepwater on May 14, 2010, 06:00:42 AM


oh yeah, Guinness, draught please....  ;D
Doesn't really work with sitting in the sun and watching the topless 20 somethings in South Beach. More of a mojito or Kalick or Redstripe kind of vibe. But, whatever works for you. ;)
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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2010, 07:53:20 AM »
Hey Deepwater...  As to your claim of being normal...

Dude, Haz and I have spent too much time with you to let THAT go unchallenged. LOL ;D

Hurry back with some pisco and we might let you sit near the normal kids. ;)

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Re: RASTUS - Oil rig fire ...
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