RJ,
Your stats are skewed....average pax load for the North Sea is in the teens vice two's and three's for the average GOM 206. I would suggest you are comparing apples and oranges here.
Trog,
Which platform might that be that has the shivers?
Is the burnt out rig still there with all the sphagetti like drill pipe laying on it?
That must have been a real sight to see....proper blow out with the drill string shot skywards and then falling back onto the rig!
Then there is the sunken jack-up down towards between Eket and PHC that flopped over following a blow out. The heli-deck is now on about a 60 degree angle to the horizion.