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Old 26th Aug 2013, 22:13
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airwave, I can't disagree that the rate of arriving unexpectedly into the sea is way too high at the moment. What I do disagree about is that its the fault of the SP. Although changed since the groundings, before that virtually the entire Aberdeen fleet was SP. Therefore any unexpected arrivals into the sea was bound to be in an SP. But, for example, the S92 has had some pretty close calls and one major fatal. If the fleet had been all S92 for that past 5 years, I suspect it would be "destroy the S92" on facebook.

As I have alluded to earlier, there does need to be some radical change in culture, but that doesn't mean replacing the normally safe and reliable SPs
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