Mountainman I guess that all this committment to safety is fine until it costs.
Bristows are the number one SAR operator but they must cost more as they have the best equipped civil SAR helicopters in the world. I saw the Jigsaw Mk2 at Helitech and it was superb, they had taken a good Mk2 and improved it out of all recognition - what are Bond going to do?
Also the BP press release says that it will create 40 jobs - how are they going to run 2x 24/7 sites and a spare aircraft and crew and trainers with only 40 people?
You must hand it to BP though, they sold the concept to the workforce using Bristows and then implement it with a cheap copy.
Last edited by Hambling Chaos; 14th May 2004 at 20:06.