Offshore Seismic Surveying
I left PGS June 2005 back to the beautiful ship Laurentian. Laurentian had been a gun boat since I had left it. October 2005 in Gibralter we refit Laurentian back to a 6 streamer vessel once again. Our first 3D job shown here was in Cuba.
January 2005, I went to India aboard the MV Ramform Vanguard. We encountered plenty of fishing gear during our survey; which means plenty of workboat trips!
September 2004 I was aboard the Ramform Valiant off the coast of Scotland. We spent over two weeks waiting on weather. Here we are jogging while we wait for the wind to come down.
In production with ten 4500m streamers out.
2004 I did two 6 week trips on the Nordic Explorer for PGS. The Nordic was a 6 streamer vessel working in Indonesia.
Me and Matt working aloft.
January 2004 I took a trip to the Caspian to shoot 3D with the vessel Pejwak. This was the first time since the vessel was with Geco (Geco Echo) that it had shot with 3 streamers out.
May 2001 I started working for SEI on the Survey vessel Laurentian. Here I am in the navigation department.
Summer of 2000 I recieved a contract as a Siesmic Survey Navigator in Iran on the Siesmic Vessel "Pejwak". Iran was hot, I was there for six weeks and I saw the temperature above 42C many times.
Before I started my studies at N.I.C. I worked for a year as a Navigator on the offshore seismic survey vessel "Calgary". During this year I visited:
- Madagascar
- Kenya
- Newfoundland
- NovaScotia
- Galveston, Texas
- United Arab Emirates
While in Galveston we removed the old survey equipment and installed some brand new stuff... including:
- Fully integrated "SPECTRA" marine navigation system P2/91 and P2/94 raw data and P1/90 files
recorded.
- All available spread positioning information (dual DGPS, acoustics, compasses, Lasertrak, etc.)
used for real-time steering and coverage displays.
- Extensive real-time and end of line QC analysis available via "SPECTRA"
- Input/Output Inc MSX-24 bit recording system, capability 2000 plus channels and 3590 cartridge
recording.
- Graphical user interface for control and QC of MSX-24 performance.
- Input/Output Inc reduced diameter fibre optic streamers.
1998. That's me in the orange cover alls! We were trying to bring in our 6000 meter cable during a huge storm off Cape St. Marie(Madagascar). This wave washed me and the other guy under the spooling drum we decided the $1000,000 cable wasn't worth risking our lives for.