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Never ending or beginning Man has been harnessing the power of the wind since the dawn of time – the windmills of today are the refined product of seven millenniums of progress. >

Olsen band crack safe operation‘It feels so real,’ said one of the new breed of seafarers recruited and now trained to work in the new industry. >

Bridge and Engine in SyncUsing the facilities of the newly upgraded Kongsberg simulator at South Tyneside College, the course take a generic core and adjust it to suit the client’s needs. >

Door Knobs to SafetyOn the face of it mooring seems like a simple process – put the vessel alongside, throw down a rope, tie it round a bollard and that’s it. Not quite. >

The North Sea Glory StoryThe glory years in terms of volume might have passed, but according to those working out there these days are amongst the most challenging and fulfilling in the half century of exploration and production. >

Poul la Cour. Father of Wind PowerIt could be said that the tiny village of Askov, 52 kms east of Esbjerg is the true home of the wind power industry. >

The Floating TableYou could see it with nine kilometres from destination still reading on the GPS – like a giant upside down kitchen table with huge legs stretching out into a blue sky.The Sea Installer is one of a new generation of vessels serving a new era in the power industry. >

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It’s a funny thing that when you push the

boundaries, as we are doing here in making this the

first of the global series of eSeas, you sometimes get

a flash of something that’s been around you, sitting

relatively unnoticed. We think there’s a classic

example of this here where we don’t exactly uncover

an unsung hero, but for a few brief seconds we turn

the spotlight on him. A spotlight generated by wind

power.

Perhaps we at Maersk Training should name a

course after him, perhaps the government should

dedicate the next big wind farm to him. After you’ve

read the story we’d love to hear from you about how

we should recognise a man called Poul la Cour.

We’ve seen with eSea in the past that editorially it

starts with no specific theme, but that in the process

of building the magazine a strong central sense of

purpose arises. Wind power came howling round

almost every corner we looked at and therefore

plays a big role in this issue.

It is closely followed by a look at the North Sea,

both retrospective and prospective. We gathered

some experts to gain their view on how they see the

region which, according to the predictions almost

half a century ago, should have dried up by now.

eSea is not drying up or becalmed. Although

generated by Maersk Training we are keen to reflect

a broader picture and welcome suggestions and

contributions from all parts of the core maritime, oil

& gas and wind power industries to include in our

new look format.

One last word on local heroes, wind and its power

– sadly on this occasion a little too much. We’ve

been following the single-handed, non-stop, round-

the-world, Skagen to Skagen exploits of Christian

Liebergreen on his yacht Jonna. He certainly

circumnavigated the earth, but didn’t quite make

it to Skagen - a few days from home Jonna’s mast

broke in the English Channel. Regardless it was a

fantastic achievement and we add our hurrah to the

many welcoming him home.

editorial

Richard [email protected]

We love them or we hate them - there seems to be little middle ground. Regardless of your standpoint, wind turbines are here to stay, not that those negative to them can have any prejudice built around novelty. Man has been harnessing the power of the wind since the dawn of time – the turbines of today are the refined product of seven millenniums of progress.

Look at any European town or

city and you will find a mill road

or mill way, an area where the

windmill dominated life, drawing

in wagonloads of harvest,

exporting sack loads of flour. Did

people complain back then about

the noise of stone grinding on

stone, of creaking timbers and

steel, of busy roads covered in

horse deposits? Not that research

can find. Rather they welcomed

the commerce created.

Like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending or beginningOn an ever spinning reel

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Who can pass a single blade

in transit on a motorway

without expressing a moment of

appreciation for the sheer size,

beauty and form? Who thinks

the trio of turbines on a hillside

powering a small town, a scar on

the landscape, not an ecological

wonder?

The huge offshore wind farms

are the latest and most dramatic

development. They are being

made possible by a growing fleet

of specialist vessels and teams

of new generation experts. Now

everybody knows that the first

men to fly were the Wright

brothers – everybody knows

wrongly. Orville went into history

as the first man to fly (a heavier

than air, mechanized, powered

and, importantly, controlled

aircraft). His twelve second,

37 metre journey took him to

immortality, but others had

already spent time in the air.

Like the history of flight the story

of the harnessing the power of

wind goes back further than you

think. The Egyptians used it, then

all round the Mediterranean

small windmills were put to

work for centuries before the

Dutch built them bigger and gave

them a more focused output.

The Danes were early to see

the potential and value of wind

power, something which they

have stood by right up to today

and it is one reason why today

they are amongst the leaders in

the field in terms of development

and implementation.

Flat Denmark is perfect for

wind power and in the late 18th

century they imported Dutch

expertise to such an extent

that two and a half centuries on

you still see the results of their

labours in buildings; their very

presence in town and street

names. Such was their influence

that the one major hurdle facing

the Danish tourist industry even

today is in distancing itself from

Holland. Americans in particular

have a difficulty discerning

between the Danish and the

Dutch, a problem highlighted by

the Californian town of Solvang.

Right in the middle of the main

street of the Danish ‘capital’ of

America, across the road from

Hans Christian Andersen Park,

along from the King Frederik

Hotel, is a Dutch-style windmill.

But why is Denmark seen as the

hub of the global wind industry?

Why not the industrious and

ingenious Dutch who after all

were the first to give us stocks

and shares, the microscope, fire

hoses and speed cameras and

same sex marriages? So why

is it that around the world that

every second wind turbine was

produced in Denmark? In this

issue we see why.

The Orville Wright of the modern

windmill is an American called

Charles Brush. In 1888 he built

a huge mill in Ohio which was

the first to effectively generate

electricity. To do so he used a 1:50

gearing system gaining maximum

effect, but not quite. It was a Dane,

Poul la Cour who perfected it

three years later by incorporating

aerodynamic design principles

to the sails and developing a way

of controlling uneven generation.

He experimented and found out

that fewer curved blades were

more efficient by a factor of up to

four. These la Cour blades allowed

a safer and higher speed and

were capable of generating 25

kilowatts. The modern electric

generating wind turbine may

have been conceived in the USA,

but it was born in Denmark.

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The Danes were early to see the potential and value of wind power

Separated by time, connected by purpose - two classrooms, one active and buzzing, the other 30 minutes drive away, silent, entertaining ghosts, occasional school trips and the odd specialist tourist. Without the latter the team from A2Sea's Sea Worker listening to Maersk Training instructor Rico Mathiesen would have no need to be on their GWO Working At Heights course.

Poul la CourFather of Wind Power

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It could be said that the tiny

village of Askov, 52 kms east of

Esbjerg is the true home of the

wind power industry. It was here

from the 1890’s that a relatively

unsung Danish genius spent half

his time teaching maths and

physics in a revolutionary way,

the other half harnessing nature

to man’s needs.

Poul la Cour was a Christian

scientist - not in the American

sect way, but in the sense that he

totally disagreed with Darwin,

believing that God did the job in

seven days, whilst he remained

a boundary-breaking scientist

of the very highest order. Had

patients and recognition not

been so mistimed, or fickle, every

Danish school kid today would

have his name on their lips,

cycling home past, la Cour Vejs

and Gades en route.*

• It was la Cour who first devised

a way of splitting a telephone

cable so it could carry multiple

signals as the same time -

one invention which enabled

another to survive and develop.

• It was la Cour who worked out

that less was more in terms of

what energy blades could draw

from wind.

• It was la Cour who built a

contraption which solved

the tricky problem caused by

inconsistent wind, causing

inconsistent propulsion, causing

inconsistent generation, causing

inconsistent electrical supply.

• It was la Cour who overcame

the limitations of Direct

Current to establish Askov in

1902 as the first community

on the planet to be lit by wind

generated power.

• It was la Cour who invented

the spectro telegraph which

enabled ships to accurately

* On Google Earth there is one Poul la Cours Vej in Skanderborg, not far from his family home.There are several la Cours Vejs, but it is not clear if they are named after him or his elder brother Jørgen Carl who was prominent figure in developing Danish agriculture or the artist of the same era, Janus la Cour.

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signal to each other day and

night.

• It was la Cour who developed

a way of storing wind energy

as hydrogen and oxygen and

created in the process a light

bulb four times brighter than

any other. These bulbs lit the

school at Askov for seven years.

• It was la Cour who inspired

seventeen year old Johannes

Juul who would, nearly half a

century later, create the wind

generator, the turbine as we

know it today.

Had you heard of him?

Poul la Cour is not totally unsung,

his old workplace is the centre for

a foundation in his name which is

manned by volunteers who fully

understand his genius, a genius

that is marked by the European

Wind Energy Association who

every year since 2000 have made

an award in la Cour’s name to the

person or organisation whose

work has most advanced the

cause of wind power.

From the outside the building’s

shape betrays a glorious past,

a windmill but without a mill.

It’s contribution to global wind

power pivotal. On Wednesdays

they unlock the doors and you

can wander from room to room.

Here precisely where he worked,

there’s a collection of examples of

la Cour’s inventiveness, but it is

out of the sepia photographs on

the walls of the teaching staff that

the ghosts of the past seep into

every corner of the mill. To study

the faces is to be there.

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▲The teams from A2Sea’s Sea Worker back in the classroom discussing

safety harnessing after practical sessions getting used to heights.

◄Poul la Cour sits on the left of the second row of the first class for rural

electricians, the installation teams for the first generation of wind power

mills. In the back row, third from right, stands Johannes Juul, another

relatively unsung hero.

Half an hour away in Esbjerg, the

guys, and one young woman, on

the Global Wind Organisation

approved course are tomorrow's

contribution to the wind industry,

within weeks they will have

erected the final 28 wind turbines

in the Anholt field. The offshore

wind farm off Jutland’s east

coast has a total of 111 turbines

nudging Denmark towards the

target of having 50% of its energy

generated by wind power by 2020.

In Denmark by 1900, there

were about 2500 windmills for

mechanical loads such as pumps

and mills, producing an estimated

combined peak power of about 30

MW – today just four of the latest

generation would surpass that.

When la Cour died in 1908,

Denmark hadn't switched over to

alternating current, only isolated

farms and tiny communities

benefited from his considerable

achievements. Moments of genius

enjoyed by hundreds not millions.

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A cutting from an Australian paper showing that at least in the 19th

Century la Cour was globally respected.

If you’d been standing in the corridor outside the control room you could have been forgiven for thinking you were eavesdropping on some chauvinistic club discussing the various aspects of the female form - the conversation was all about legs.

Indeed the conversation for

the previous four days had

been dominated by legs; they

are after all what makes the

newest variety of vessel unique

– the windcarriers which are

facilitating the huge growth in

offshore windfarms.

The safe raising and lowering of

the legs was the principal, though

not sole, subject in a new course

to support a new industry. Two

teams from Fred Olsen sister

ships Brave Tern and Bold Tern

where breaking ground over the

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five day course. They are shortly

to be deployed off the German

coast and on the Dogger Bank,

installing new wind turbines.

‘It feels so real,’ said one of the

new breed of seafarers recruited

and now trained to work in the

new industry. Typical of the

installer crews was Kenn Steen

Olsen who with a background in

supply vessels and most recently

as Master of an accommodation

ship positioned off the Brazilian

coast, and now as the Master

of Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s

Bold Tern. ‘I got a very realistic

training preparing me for the

challenges waiting in the offshore

wind industry. I’ve been really

impressed by the course, I think

it’s put us exactly where we need

to be when we get out there,’ said

Kenn.

Had Kenn clicked in on the last

issue of eSea he would have

recognised a revolutionary

vessel which was featured – he

was at that point a captain of

the Dan Swift, the Lauritzen

accommodation vessel on long-

term duty in the Brazilian offshore

fields. Now a month on he was

preparing for a very different role.

The role of the captain of an

accommodation vessel demands

many skills beyond seamanship

– ‘there I had over 300 people

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onboard and since we were on DP

24/7, they and their welfare were

my main concern. Now I will have

about 80 people all focused on

erecting the wind turbines,’ says

Keen.

The plan is to do 30 windturbines

in 16 weeks – ‘and that includes

a long waiting time built-in for

bad weather!’ So at about three

turbines a week there is no time

for hanging around. On the course

Keen and his colleagues practiced

and practiced manoeuvring the

simulated version of sister ship

Brave Tern into position, legs

up and down on safe and unsafe

seabeds, coming up against

just about every likelihood of a

mishap.

The two ships crews took it in

turn to take the controls in the

floating bridge and since this

course was so new, a seasoned

jack-up consultant Charlie

Aitchison was on hand to assist

the instruction team. When

not on the bridge they were

involved in DP refresher, ship

handing and leadership and

management situations, one of

which highlighted one of the

main aspects of today’s shipping

industry.

Instructor Søren Segel was

taking Keen, Chief Officer Helge

Hansen and Chief Engineer

Even Morten Tangen through

Viking Attack, part of a resource

management tool. The info on the

white board was in English, Søren

spoke in Danish, Even replied

in Norwegian and Helge made

further comments in Swedish. It

was like the European Melody

Grand Prix – without having

to listen to the music. They

understood each other but the

whole exercise unlined another

message, the need for clear

communication is paramount.

You can have all the technology

in the world at your disposal

but one unclear instruction, one

misunderstanding can, at this

level in particular, be very costly.

The plan is to do 30 wind turbines in 16 weeks – ‘and that includes a long waiting time built-in for bad weather!’

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The Sea Installer is one of a new

generation of vessels serving a

new era in the power industry.

For the Danish owners A2SEA,

the arrival of Sea Installer marks

a substantial increase in their

ability to work in the windpower

installation sector. Their fifth

vessel has more productive

capability than their previous four

combined and at its first planned

refit it will receive a new crane,

matching the one on her sister

ship which is currently being built

in China.

That upgrade will be to take the

800 tonne crane off and replace

it with a 900 tonne version. Even

the ‘small’ crane is far in excess

of what the industry needs today

but the decision to upgrade is

a sign of what will be needed

tomorrow as Jens Frederik

Hansen A2SEA’s CEO explained

The Floating TableYou could see it with nine kilometres from destination still reading on the GPS – like a giant upside down kitchen table with huge legs stretching out into a blue sky. It was docked in Grenaa, waiting to go to work on a windfarm off the east Jutland coast. For one day it was the number one attraction in the small Danish port. Invited guests would get tours of the vessel and then public would be welcomed onboard for a chance to see the strange vessel face-to-face.

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‘The offshore market in Northern

Europe is growing quickly, and

we can see that the demand for

installation vessels will grow

dramatically. With this new

vessel, we are well prepared to

meet that demand. And we’ve

taken another big step toward

shortening installation time,

thereby bringing down the cost of

Offshore Wind energy.’

The vessel is similar to others in

the sector but does have a number

of advancements, including a

totally smooth deck working area.

There are no hatches, not even

a raised rivet to avoid potential

accidents. The company has also

taken the decision to see the vessel

as a single community – there is no

discrimination between crew and

charterers’ personnel. They eat

and relax in the same areas. This

opportunity to interact is seen as

natural since they are on a single

mission. Already two crews have

spent time at Maersk Training

Svendborg’s MOSAIC complex

preparing for Sea Installer’s first

assignment.

The crane is the workhorse of the

vessel, which technically ceases

to be one when in operational

mode. The giant hydraulic legs

measure 83 metres and when

lowered can operate in water up

to a depth of 45 metres – at one

metre a minute it means that it

can in be in work mode within

about an hour – the typical deck

to water surface distance being

15 to 25 metres. The boat is now

a pier onto which up to eight

windmills can be stacked ready

for installation.

The Sea Installer left the next

day to work in the Anholt wind

farm which when completed

this summer with 111 mills

will provide 4% of Denmark’s

electricity.

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The Anholt wind farm which when completed this summer with 111 mills will provide 4% of Denmark’s electricity.

Maritime instructor Tony Greener frequently draws analogies from football and the timing of the first Resource Management course in Newcastle to incorporate forwards and defense – the bridge and the engine room – could not have had more appropriate timing. The course for Gulf Offshore came within hours of the final whistle of the ‘do or die’ local derby between Newcastle and Sunderland.

The consequences of the result

at St James’ Park could last for

a long time – there is no forever

in football, but there is in the

maritime world where a simple

failure can become a major

disaster. Getting a crew to be a

team is partly what the running

of an Engine Room and Bridge

Resource Management course in

sync is all about.

‘The two courses are very similar

and have a common aim. In

fact the engine room course

was developed out of the bridge

one so they share the target

of eradicating human error,’

says Tony who did a trial run

of the Engine Room Resource

Management in March.

Using the facilities of the newly

upgraded Kongsberg simulator

at South Tyneside College, the

course take a generic core and

adjust it to suit the client’s needs.

‘Any engineer will recognize the

environment, it is just that we

like to make it as user friendly

as possible by programming it to

most resemble their workplace,’

says Tony.

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Part of the world of high

tech learning, they were not.

Regardless, the 16 participants

were totally engaged. Three bits

of thick perspex, a collection of

door and cupboard knobs, some

string, a handful of elastic bands,

all of which sourced in a Do It

Yourself store, and the vital final

ingredient from a downtown

toy shop, some little Lego men

– all coming together to create

an important learning tool, a

chance to safely practice for the

potentially dangerous working

arenas of the bow and aft decks.

On the face of it mooring seems

like a simple process – put the

vessel alongside, throw down a

rope, tie it round a bollard and

that’s it. Not quite. Tensions

caused by currents, tides, winds,

height and size of vessels, can put

a strain on man and equipment

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Three bits of thick perspex, a collection of door and cupboard knobs, some string, a handful of elastic bands, some little Lego men create an important learning tool

to the point that something has

to give, and when it does it is very

often man who pays the price.

If you’ve ever tried to carry a

large board in windy conditions

you can appreciate what force a

wind puts on a 400 metre long

fully-loaded container ship and

the subsequent strain on holding

it in place. The force is not just

horizontal. Many quays were

constructed in the days when the

size of vessel meant that the angle

from ship to quay bollard was

fairly sharp. Today a line can be

closer to vertical with a resultant

different strain on the bollard. It

could be like pulling a tooth out.

Deaths from mooring accidents

are sadly not uncommon, injuries

all too common. Three years ago

the Nautical Institute identified

an urgent need to improve safety

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Instructor Per Mazur and the

AB’s gather round the ‘bow’ of MS

Mooring Safely

Three years ago the Nautical Institute identified an urgent need to improve safety when vessels were making port.

when vessels were making port.

It’s a point supported by the UK

P&I Club, the protection and

indemnity specialist shipping

insurers. They estimate that

mooring accidents alone cost

more than $34million over a 20

year period and that the brief

periods spent on the bow and aft

decks caused enough accidents

to make them the seventh most

dangerous places in the industry.

One of the reasons the Protections

and Indemnity Club cited saw

the practice of using non-deck

crew personnel during mooring

operations. Engine room staff,

apprentices and even catering

staff, in a survey they carried out,

have been called to ‘help out’ on

more than four out of every ten

vessels they inspected.

This is where the Lego men come

in. Instructor Per Mazur, taking

a Shipboard Safety Workshop,

asked the ship’s mechanics,

assistants and one junior officer

present, to take charge of the

small decks and to adopt the role

of guardians to a new seafarer,

the Lego man. Having chosen a

mooring system, where would

it be safe to place him? Then the

ropes (string and elastic bands)

would be pulled taut to the point

when they would snap and send

the rope around the door knobs

across the deck in the same

pattern as a real rope. If the Lego

man was still standing they had

selected the right placement.

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Engine room staff, apprentices and even catering staff, in a survey they carried out, have been called to ‘help out’ on more than four out of every ten vessels they inspected.

August 20, 1965 – The Rolling

Stones released ‘(I Can’t Get No)

Satisfaction’ whilst the Beatles

spent their last day together in a

studio, Elvis was on stage in Las

Vegas and 70 kilometers off the

East Yorkshire coast a converted

barge struck an ‘inconsequential’

volume of gas – proving a hundred

year old theory correct that there

were natural resources under

the North Sea, but questioning if

recovering them was financially

viable. The North Sea, they

predicted would run dry within a

lifetime.

Today – The Beatles and Elvis are

no more, the Stones are gyrating

a little slower but are still on tour

and the North Sea is far from

being barren. In fact the process

of search, discovery and recovery

is as rewarding as ever, maybe

more so since it pushes man and

equipment to new levels.

The glory years in terms of

volume might have passed, but

according to those working out

there these days are amongst the

most challenging and fulfilling in

the half century of exploration

The North Sea Glory Storywhere the money keeps rolling in

and production. The first

predictions of resources drying

up by the 21st Century have long

been surpassed. In fact today

the future looks very distant -

according to one expert, a rookie

joining a rig today could well

retire having conducted his entire

career in the area.

The North Sea story goes well

back over a century and a half to

the discovery of some shale oil

in Scotland which was followed

eight years later by a find in

Germany. Some people were

bright enough to think that since

Scotland and Germany were part

of the same continental shelf

then there might be a geological

connection and somewhere in

between there might be more

oil . . . and or gas. A hundred and

six years later BP’s Sea Gem

found gas and struck the cords of

triumph and tragedy which from

that day on have marked out the

rewards and trials of working the

North Sea.

Within months the Sea Gem

was to become the first North

Sea catastrophe, eleven crew

members being killed when two

legs failed following a rig move.

The oil and gas were there, but

at a price. Firstly international

governments had to agree on new

boundaries beyond the existing

five kilometer from coast mark,

and secondly the cost of crude had

to rise enough to make recovery

economically worthwhile.

eSea gathered three experts from

oil seeking companies active

today in the North Sea, Statoil,

Talisman and Total at Maersk

Training in Stavanger to hear

their views on where they saw

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The Troll A platform, an offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field

off the west coast of Norway, has an overall height of 472 metres (1,549

ft), weighs 683,600 tonnes (1,2 million tonnes with ballast) and has the

distinction of being the tallest structure ever moved by mankind.

the future. It’s going to be hard but

bright they agreed as they looked

towards new finds in the North

Sea and beyond to expansion into

the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

Asked if they would have

preferred to have been involved

in the ‘glory days’ of the Seventies

they were unanimous in that

there was a certain excitement

in the pioneer era but that today

the challenges are greater and

satisfaction possibly enhanced as

they search in evermore difficult

and harsh environments.

Gone are the smash and grab

years, in their place an industry

fully aware of its responsibilities

to five national governments,

to tens of thousands of skilled

workers and to the global

environment. Leaving the place

as they found it is the mantra of

the new exploration industry

and no more so in the rich fishing

grounds of the Norwegian and

Barents Seas.

Our three experts were from

different companies with differing

challenges. Operational Safety

Leader Oddvar Tønnesen's

company Total have been

involved since the earliest of days

in the North Sea, today they are

one of the main players in the

region.

Project Leader Bjørn Risvik from

Statoil is a man born and bred in

the Norwegian Arctic who sees

no challenge too great and even

thinks that the coldness of the

Barents Sea is preferable to the

winter storms of the North and

Norwegian.

And Sigve Pedersen a senior

drilling supervisor from

Talisman, the Canadian company

who specialize in extracting the

last drop and have revisited a

number of barren wells to good

effect. They also use extended

reach drilling (ERD) in their

exploration and that was what

brought them to the simulator

facilities of Maersk Training in

Norway.

It was Bjørn who was the most

buoyant about the prospects of

Artic energy – ‘I’m from up there

and yes it is cold but apart from

that you don’t have the disruptive

aspect of foul weather.’ – and

was equally positive about the

North Sea – ‘they talk about the

Seventies as being the boom

period, but if you look at it some of

the biggest finds they have been

in the past decade.’

Oddvar backed this up with

Total having recently found

new resources in the Frigg field

between Stavanger and Bergen

– this good fortune along with

further successes at the Marts

and Linger fields will mean a great

deal of competition form the big

companies to get the right people,

those with the competences

to meet the challenges. An

additional challenge is that much

of the work involves HPHT –

high temperature high pressure

- drilling and the consequential

demands on drilling and training.

Training today is one of the major

differences they have witnessed

over the past three decades –

the ability to move a crew into

a simulator and work their way

through the likely problems in

order to prepare them for the real

challenge, was seen by all three as

one of the most important factors

in getting it right, financially,

safely and environmentally.

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Today the challenges are greater and satisfaction possibly enhanced as they search in evermore difficult and harsh environments.

Training today is one of the major differences they have witnessed over the past three decades

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eSea 1 Instructors’ back to sea programme - Sea Time Reduction announced - Vetting for Supply - New Deepwater Horizons open up

eSea 2New Towmasters’ course gets full simulation treatment - Deepwater course piloted - Wind industry - Drill instructor gets back to the well head

eSea 3MOSAIC II announced - Offshore wind, the new challenges - West African pilots use simulator to deal with the ‘big boys’ - CraneSIM in Vietnam - Piracy through the ages

eSea 4MT launches new website - Chinese in big safety push - Rig crane put in a box - Safety and People Skills build platform emergency course - how to communicate across cultures

eSea 5Maersk Training pennant raised in Dubai - Platform crews pilot Emergency Response course - How to be best in Vetting class - Danger of computer over reliance

eSea 6MOSAIC II, the ground is broken - Rig participants up to elbows in some very special mud - Semi-sub crew learns anchor handling - West African pilots start payback

eSea 7Chinese Container crews look to safety - Rig crane simulator tested - Esbjerg’s new facilities - MOSAIC II update - DP sea-time reduction - Coffee Break with Bent Nielsen

eSea 8Titanic Edition looking back at 100 years of increased safety and improved training - the lifeboat revolution - man overboard - spreading knowledge - tomorrow’s seafarers

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eSea 9$15million Phone call - Wrappers off MOSAIC II - 5 Year drilling package - Tomorrow’s leaders today - Family comes too - Learning in luxury - Danish Olympians teambuild

eSea 10Breaking the ice, a new route in navigation - crane simulation arrives - Newcastle’s drop in course for the high life - the silent disease, loneliness - Chinese catch safety bug

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London Calling

Are you Dynamically Positioned

in London in June? If so you could

be in a position to hear some

dynamic presentations at the

European Dynamic Positioning

Conference including one being

delivered by Maersk Training’s

Tonny Moeller.

The two day conference on June

20 and 21 brings together many

leading experts concentrating

on the OSV market, the needs of

passenger ships, megayachts,

shuttle tankers, jack-ups and

submersibles. Tonny’s topic will

cover competence assurance for

individuals and teams through

advanced simulation and the

development of simulators for

competence assessment. Tonny

will be accompanied by Mikael

Kofod, Maersk Training’s sales

manager in Svendborg, who is

taking advantage of meeting

the representatives of the 37

companies expected to attend.

Photo contest Maersk Training Brasil

The football World Cup and then the Olympics, Brazil will be in the focus range of the world's sports photographers for the next three years or so.

Maersk Training in Brazil asked seafarers to take out their cameras, or phones, and see what the offshore world had to offer - with some amazing results.

We’ll keep you up to date with the winning photograph in the next issue.

It was a bit disconcerting. The

sales assistant cautioned to take

really good care of it – after all

over the next 25 years I might

be called upon to produce out it,

of the darkness, at any moment.

It’s a bit depressing when you

buy a light bulb which has more

prospect of being alive and active

in 2038 than yourself. I’ll need

to live longer than any previous

male in my family to be about to

turn it on and off.

The next time the receipt may

be referred to could be in my

Last Will and Testament. ‘ . .

.and to Paddy I leave the Philips

7watt bulb, bought in 2013 and

guaranteed to glow for a quarter

of a century . . .’ bleak thought

isn’t it? Even the smoke alarm

batteries now boast a life of at

least five years – but who can

be bothered, or disciplined, or

organised enough to keep the

receipts. In fact is there a retailer

about who can put their hand on

heart today and say they’ll still

be in business in 25 years? You’ll

find yourself popping into the

hairdressers and saying, ‘twelve

years ago when this was Joe’s

hardware he sold me this bulb,

can I have a refund?’ If you are

lucky, you might leave with a jar

of gel.

One aspect of life I’ll not be

sorry to leave behind is Danish

electronics. Denmark is the only

country in the EU where you need

an international

adapter to move from room to

room. Well not quite, but no

other country in Europe, and

very few worldwide, have four

different types of plugs commonly

bouncing around. In a country

PoopDeckIt’s a bit depressing when you buy a light bulb which has more prospect of being alive and active in 2038 than yourself.

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which contributes so much in

terms of innovative design, it is

strange that they have the most

impractical of plugs, or rather

sockets.

The local Do It Yourself store, the

one with the near eternal light

bulbs, also sells extension cable

reels. On the plastic drum there

are four sockets all with earths,

25 metres down the wire and

there’s a two pin plug! Where on

earth? The British three pin fits

all sockets and is distinguished

by three features; it is by far the

safest, ugliest and it is the only

plug that’s often bigger than the

appliance it supplies power to.

Of the 14 formats worldwide the

type C plug is amongst the most

universally used. It is also the

workhorse of Danish electrics.

Two round prongs, positive and

negative, create a simple device,

but in multiple sockets they

are placed too close together to

accommodate anything other

than the most basic of plugs.

These are not universal in

Denmark - the simple plug can

exit the wire from below, from

the side or from the centre. In

addition many devices run off

transformers which are built into

the plug so when you want to

have your computer, tv, satellite

receiver and some lights in the

same room you have a logistics

issue which when solved looks

like spaghetti junction.

A good electrician in Denmark

is more valuable to society than

a doctor. We have a good one,

we’ve also had a bad one. Our

replacement boiler, weighing in

at 500kgs took four men and a

forklift to put into position. The

electrician connected it to the

power looping a wire across

the boiler room like a washing

line. When pointed out that this

was unsightly and potentially

dangerous he replied that it was ‘a

safety feature . . . in case the boiler

moved.’

I need his thought process to

explain to my wife why there

are so many wires in wireless

technology. The printer wasn’t

fully out of the box before she’d

decided we’d picked up the wrong

one because there was a power

cable. ‘It said wireless . . .’

Recently on a hospital visit, the

patient was in great distress, not

pain, just distress. The cause was

not medical. Nowhere within

reasonable hobbling distance was

there an ordinary plug. She asked

the nurse who, with some degree

of reason, said that the system

was designed primarily for life

support equipment. The patient

replied ‘In 2013, to a twenty year

old, the iPhone charger is life

support.’

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The British three pin fits all sockets and is distinguished by three features; it is by far the safest, ugliest and it is the only plug that’s often bigger than the appliance it supplies power to.

Recently on a hospital visit, the patient was in great distress, not pain, just distress. The cause was not medical. Nowhere within reasonable hobbling distance was there an ordinary plug.

ContactEditorial issues and suggestions:Richard Lightbody - [email protected]

Names and emails of those able and eager to help with specific enquiries arising out of this issue

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Sales enquiries Esbjerg (DK): [email protected]

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Sales enquiries Norway: [email protected]

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