Yes, the HC2 was a good workhorse - I suspect people keep thinking they are the same beast as the S-58T, which they are not.
Nothing wrong with the T-Bird!
We flew right alongside the Wessex doing the same work and they just fine!
Bristow sold Brown and Root a Bill of Goods on the Teeside to Ekofisk Contract as the Onshore Diversion fuel requirement gave us the choice of fuel or passengers.
That was not the aircrafts fault....but young Lawrence's bit of doing as I recall.
I dearly loved the piston engine version.....the H-34.......and the big brother the Moe-J-Vee!