all aboard!

The day at Bull Arm was fun! This is where they built Hibernia. A whole city appeared out of nowhere... in the middle of nowhere :P We got orientation and ID cards... our crew is officially allowed to work there :)
It's a bit on the slow side now... but they use the place to test sub sea equipment before actually putting it sub sea... Which some of us will do on down time, or during our vacation for extra $$$.

There was a news conference today, to give update about the crash... not much was said... and the choppers are still grounded.. that means most ships are doing passenger runs.

Since the Osprey is not coming back in harbour any time soon, it was decided that half of our crew would meet it in Argentia (google map it to see where it is and no, sadly, it's not Argentina... :P). What we'll cause of course I'm going... out-of-townies are always first on the ship :) be doing is still up in the air (HAha! how very surprising :P)... but, rumors are:

-Rig towing, because the ice is surrounding a couple of rigs (Cool pix alert!! might get to see icebergs from very close!)

-Passenger runs... and it was said that we might have to go on the rig Sunday, for a couple of hours, while they're transferring people... not sure why we would have to get off the boat but the cool part is that we'd do a frog transfer!! That's going from the boat to the rig in a suspended basket controlled by a crane!!! I'm all excited yay! cool free ride!!! like at Disney!!! woohoo!!!, the guys are not so amused.. wusses...

-no matter what, except in case of extreme weather or rig tow, we'll be catching up on GAMMA (the computerised/automatised list of maintenance things to do on the rovs) because, for obvious reasons, the last crew didn't touch it for the past 3 weeks...

I'll take notes and pictures... but I have no idea when we'll be coming back in sight of an internet connection, hopefully it wont be too long... it's a big ol' logistic mess down here, with no choppers flying, icebergs floating around and everybody trying to meet deadlines anyway...

The next few days should be interesting... if only for the unknown they are bringing :P