Ok most of the information posted above is not good.
Hoffman helicopters is out of business and currently selling all their parts and helicopters. Owner is terminally ill.
You can take your chances with Hansen , I would say Tropic is lesser of two evils. You will be on an asian boat, no one speaks english and lots of fish head soup for dinner. You will lose weight! They tranship and you will spend your whole contarct proably with out going home, short turn arounds. American boats have long turnarounds beacuse they are under contract witht he cannerys in Samoa.
All the american companies listed above nolonger have helicopters on there boats. Only four of the US flagged tuna boats have helicopters these days and they are owned by the boat , with one exception. (at one point over 30+ boats ((us flagged had helicopters)
Something has changed recently in Mexico and foriegn pilots can no longer easily go out on there boast. Many euro guys who where working on there boats are now looking for jobs.
Most of the baost in the eastern atlantic, have r22/r44. some 500's
All the Asian boats and the few us boast left have 500C's
You will proably fly 500-650 hrs a years these days. flew 130 hours on last trip of 63 days. Ill post some pic in the next couple of days.
Boat will gladly get you a C1D for guam or Samoa if they are desperate!
If some one has a bunch of time, 500c time and preferably fishing time, i know of an immeadite vacancy. Boat can not take low time guy, becasue of insurance. Must be able to move fast.
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later
RB