A certain self elevating pontoon/installation vessel has broken a leg again. When you've only got four, losing one is quite important. If said thingy is in the process of lifting your 400 tonne super expensive/critical bit of kit, then the loss of a leg most cetrtainly compromises its ability to umm errr...... do anything. It's good though, for laundry owners cos there's likely to be a lot of soiled underwear to wash immediately afterwards, and it's good for Rotterdam ship repairers, especially ones that seemingly didn't fix it properly last time and it's good for making you want to give up and put a bit of rope over a handy tree branch.
From the very word 'Go' the owners of this particular piece of maritime junk were just that bit too smug as to the abilities of the barge and themselves to operate the damned thing. Too smug by half. I hope there're enough prudently written paragraphs in the contract to allow them to get well and truely bitten on the bum. Sadly though, I doubt it. Some would argue that it's so badly written that the client will end up having to compensate the owners. Please gawd no no no no.
Thousands of miles south off of Angola, a bitter war of words on the DP front has developed. A DP contingecy procedure is offered for review. Allatsea looks it over, searches through his dim distant memory banks and declares it 'do-able' iho. Just to be on the safe side the DP experts from Aberdoon are consulted too. They of course declare it to be the work of the devil and hint the approver should be cast to into the fires of damnation. Well Aberdoon, if you want to assess risk to the level where one should seriously consider building a meteorite shield over the project then well yes you may have a point, but here on planet Earth........
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