Thanks for the update diginagain. None of our clients have been in touch yet for a formal assessment but discretion is the watchword at the moment.
I suspect many/most of the offshore operators have similar continguency plans.
I've done a lot of these transfers in the bad old days of the N.Sea and had a colleague who was within a whisper of being killed (they had to punch him to make him let go of the remains of a Billy Pugh (old type) which had caught the superstructure and been ripped apart!). You get used to it pretty quickly - and the risks are very obvious.
But Aviation professionals talking about luck and aviation companies talking about 'landing' in the sea are not going to turn these things around.
A significant difference in accident rates across the N.Sea over 15 years is very difficult to explain simply on the basis of randomness. It can happen, but it is a question which has to be answered by some concrete actions.