June 13, 2009
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Learning to use the damn thing
Figured out how to add targets or remove then from my radar screen. Doesn't seem to difficult but I know theres still a lot for me to learn. I can't believe the number of boats out here in just the 50 mile range. and we're far from any ports. Work going on al around us.
Getting a chuckle listening to all the boats jockying for a spot under the crane. Evrybody has something important. Guess the boat costing us 250K a day has the muscle to get in first.
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Keeping busy I see!
@Tiger11007 - yeah, but the radar man got after me for touching his equipment. touchy sob.
@jdortiz - LOL! why were you touching the equiptment though?
Always felt seasick almost everytime I travelling by boat / ship.
@RestlessButterfly - A lot of my co-workers get seasick. If its a long trip I get a little woozy. But you have to understand the boats we normally use are only 150 to 200 feet long. Work boats supporting oil/gas operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. If they don't smell moldy, they smell like leaking diesel fumes. The seas get rough and you end up riding the waves up and down as much as 15 feet. Going bow first into the bottom of a wave, you end up wondering if the boat wioll come back up. Like the boat wants to pretend to be a submarine. Not fun. try that for 6 to 8 hours, one way.
Sea, ocean always managed to calm me though. There is a feeling of peacefulness when surrounding by the ocean / sea.
It has been a long time since I was last on the water. I can hardly remember what it was like.
@Ohgood - I don't have itthat easy. Its been long time for me also but I rode so many work boats that the memory of it hasn't faded one bit.
I always have a love for the sea and the boats myself.
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