cease with night operations offshore
Do you really think the oil companies would seriously consider that option?
When on NS night operations I always placed myself at a 'gate' of 500', 1 NM and 60 KIAS, no matter if that was at the start of the 'winter' or the end, used to help me during the summer night standby ops when casevacing heart attack victims at 0330! We STILL don't know what the circumstances leading to this accident were, can we wait until some form of confirmation from a reliable/informed source?