Photograph DSV Sea Oyster at Grimsby
Having had enough of my own cooking I got an able seamans job on a dive support vessel the first in North Sea to have mini bell to increase bottom time operating out of Grimsby. Again interesting work with four pont mooring over well heads and use of early DP equipment that was brought onboard for certain contracts mainly we would drop the two forad anchors and back onto gas platform in The Rough Field and put mooring ropes through giant hard eye snotters that we made onboard and rigged with the help of the divers, seemed to have to splice multiplait every day and with new materials being used such as nylon it kept it interesting, the ship also had a 25 tonne crane that we drove and a cherry picker to launch the rib no wave compensated winch here I was to come accross those a few years later did a wet dock at Brooke Marine in Lowestoft and sometimes sailed out of Great Yarmouth. Wire slicing came into its own here when I had to splice eyes to stream some very expensive British Gas survey equiment over the stern, just over a year of this and I returned home looking for a new challenge. Ended up retraining as carpenter and joiner and doing access course in tourism and leisure, spent three months back packing in Australia then stumbled apon the PandO Princess new build program and sent my CV off straight away to Richmond House.Although Managed to keep my hand in by temping with Howard Smith Towage on thier harbour tugs in Swansea Docks.
Photograph of Dingo at Lake McKenzie Frazer Island Australia stood on the nearly pure Silica Sand reminding me the cargos carried on Gardner's Coasters
Photograph of SS Maheno at her final resting place on the 75 mile beach at Frazer Island. She drifted ashore after parting her tow in a cyclone in 1935 enroute to Japan for Scrap
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