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I used to work offshore in commercial diving / ROVs. The reasons are not so much technical problems, but there is demand/supply for people who can do that sort
by DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
I used to work offshore in commercial diving / ROVs. The reasons are not so much technical problems, but there is demand/supply for people who can do that sort of job, as I wrote here[1].
people need many years of experience (recorded in a log-book), before they can do the next certification. Unlike SW engineering where you're promoted to Senior depending on company and sometimes for no apparent reason in oil+gas a lot of people are in their 40ies and 50ies. Our super-intendant on one job was 78. I was the youngest guy out there with 23 yro while the next closest was 12 years older than me (ans also only on one job. one all other gigs all were much older still).
Every 2 or so years you need to do a survival training. There are medical fitness tests etc ... You can't just quickly train a few on-shore engineers and then send them out there.
On the other hand there should be plenty of people "sitting on the beach" without work right now and from my experience it sounds like big oil companies rather not spend the money on this when they think there might be a chance of this blowing over in 3 months.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619406
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