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Old 30th Nov 2006, 16:10
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SASless
 
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Nice thought but fraught with peril.....short cockpit discussion....North Sea...fugly weather....Decca decided to run amuck due to the snow fall....when asked....ok....now what? Me being the brains of the outfit...scary thought in itself....No problem says I....the platform we want to hit is the biggest thing on this side of the field. Once we break out and find it....we will follow the field map to our rig. Simple says I.

We broke out as planned in very...very....very...poor vis....to find ourselves running up to the largest bulk oil carrier I have ever seen.....as he did 12 knots to somewhere besides any place useful to us.

We reverted to the alternative approach method....go to the next biggest thing on the radar....and continued with our original plan.
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