Saturday, August 30, 2008

Helicopter landings



Location : The US Gulf

The other day we had a helicopter land on the vessels heli deck. In the US Gulf, since its too cumbersome to send surveyors and charterers rep by launch for the Ship to ship ops, they usually fly them out of New Orleans. As the mothership was actually smaller then us and didn't have a Heli-deck, the chopper came over to us.

A nice change from the ordinary. I had flown in one of these choppers a few years back and it was a wonderful feeling. Please note the small floats on the bottom stands of the chopper. As the pilot then had explained to me, "They make the chopper sink slower in case we ditch this baby."

2 comments:

Stormdrane said...

"They make the chopper sink slower in case we ditch this baby."

Haha, that's an encouraging thought.

Tim said...

did he laugh after he said it? that's important.