STAY FAT OR CANNOT WORK-—A NEW CONCEPT???
They should make better helicopters. You get some big boys working the hard labor jobs. Yeah sure some are fat, but plenty got a lot of muscle in there.
125 kilos is 275 lbs
Those wacky Brits. In the US, stones can be of various weights.
Oil will not be pumped. These guys are tough. Send in the lesbians.
Well, that’s one way to “Go Green”...
The weight limit is 275 lbs.
That includes clothing. I know they don’t wear Carhart’s at sea but that what I looked at. A large heavy Carhart jacket is 5 lbs. Pants are about 5 also.
Steel toed work boots are about 3 lbs per boot. 7 lbs
A survival suit weights up to 13 lbs.
Add a pound or two for underlayers and that’s over 30 lbs right there.
250 lbs. for a strapping muscular 6 foot man is not unusual.
A 12,500 lb. Badlands winch from Harbor should do the trick. (Obviously I have no idea what I’m talking about but hey, I’m a FReeper so I can act like an expert)
This is another example of stupid, insane government regulations where no one seems to know anything about reality. Good grief build a better winch!! Winches come in all capacities and they are being made smaller and more compact all the time.
The food out there is way too good ,LOL
Well that settles it then. No oil drilling.
That’s 275lbs fully clothed. Them some big ol’ boys!
That’s 275lbs fully clothed. Them some big ol’ boys!
(To the tune of “Short People”)
Don’t want no fat people, don’t want no fat people,
don’t want no fat people ‘round here!
A lot of weight gets on the cable, the rescuer’s average weight is about 199 pounds.
“The 39st (249kg) maximum Coastguard rescue helicopter winch load is made up of the maximum clothed weight plus the average 14st (90.3kg) weight of a rescue worker, a 4st 7Ib (29kg) stretcher, and the 7Ib (5kg) kit.
OEUK said the average weight of offshore workers had risen by almost 1st 7Ib (10kg) since 2008.”
Buy decent helicopters.
Stacy Abrams is now an oil worker?
The new limit is based on a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of life on an oil rig to include transportation to and from work. And it’s got nothing to do with the helicopters themselves.
If you want to know the reals reasons (and stop the baseless guessing and blaming), here’s the reason from the horse’s mouth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgwWQ_Pg3A
Ahhh...Free Republic.
Everyone takes a side based on their personal biases, then argues the points to death.
Are they European or African swallows?
I was not going to comment because It does not matter to me anymore. My offshore days are over but this is absurd. Some new child woke up to some new and alternate reality. Does the Coast Guard weigh all the people they rescue from ships? Of course not.
Back in the day of HUET training and North Sea survival training it was not uncommon to have people who simply would not fit in a gumby suit. I was 6-1 back then, about 250 and barely fit myself. I have seen guys who barely fit through the escape windows in the helicopter escape training. The subject of weight and helicopter hoists never came up.
There is a new sheriff in town and it isn’t us or anyone else with practical experience or much good sense, leave the rescue swimmer behind if you need the capacity, he should expect that and be picked up after. Happy I am out of the insanity and just pray I make it out of this world without becoming victim to it all.