Try search on here. Several threads will answer your questions. Heres the short of it.
Almost no boats out of Samoa have helicopters any more (4 out of 35), lots of Korean , and asian boats in the western pac have 500c's leased from one of two companys in Guam. Tropic or Hansen, low pay, contract required. 3-4 k a mopnth, eat lots of rice and fish head soup , mayby your mech will speak english.
Boats in South Am fishing eastern pac , r22's r44's out of central america.
it is all about right place right time.
Got to run , damm drillers are yelling on the radio to be moved off the hill for breakfast
RB