CPL/IR licence

[mad_jock]

Did knowbody tell you that the direct toll bridges fell down due to sabotage of the owners, they had this idea they were going to get an advantage by locking in all the traffic but then didn't get the insurance pay out and the old bridge wasn't condemed. There is now an exclusive VIP boats that do the trip. If you don't have a ticket you can't get on to get off at the first stop.

Of course you can pay the old fee and sit on the boat while the others get off first and you stay on to the second stop instead of taking the old bridge. But you still end up in the mud bank like all the rest. But if you have the skill set and arn't weighed down with to much debt you can make it through to the rope bridge to the other island which then has a causeway to the main island. But some of the bridge walkers know people who give them a helping hand across the mud bank and they seem to have better equipment for getting through the mud as well. Some of them as well halfway across get picked up by a fishing boat and get dropped off at the main island. Thats really not fair and the boat companys are forced to go and have words with the fishing boat owners and offer them reduced tickets on VIP boat.

Unfortunately the boat operators are in a bit of a stick because there isn't enough traffic to support the boats without the second stop traffic being high enough. And it a swine because they can see enough traffic walking across the bridge to make things work but they don't want to pay the VIP boat rates and are quite happy walking.

Now the boat building company issued a report saying they predicted that the main island was in danger of not having enough residents. This was quite quickly realised to be a load of rubbish but the boat operators are hanging there pensions on it being true. Anyway they can always walk back across the old bridge if they can't get through the mud, the boat trip is a one way only ticket and no refunds. And no going back halfway because you realise you made a stupid choice.

Anyone who hasn't been given a VIP ticket for the first stop would be really silly to pay the fare anyway and they should have researched the options.

Now I wonder whats going to happen if nobody pays the VIP fare? I wonder if the boat service can continue?

Funny though there is a load of residents on the main island really want the direct service to continue and will do and say anything to keep people using it. What do they care if people have to walk back over the bridge and only get to look at the main island from the mud bank.

Not been a rise in the skipper experence rates I am afraid. So that theory is out the window.

Anyway we wouldn't have to stick them in at that level if they wern't dissappearing of to fly jets after a couple of years.

anyway I am sure we are going to go forwards and backwards as we usually do with you saying the only way to train is intergrated and me saying thats a load of rubbish.

Fact is though your side of things has completely screwed themselves by having tagged schemes with no chance of a job if your not tagged. And there isn't enough tagged work to keep the current training capacity.