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eSeaM A R I T I M E / O I L & G A S / W I N D / C R A N E · N O . 2 3 / 2 0 1 5
EM AGA ZINE FROM M A ERSK TR A INING
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Expanding HorizonsFlames of Knowledge > Perfect Remote Perfection >Play Misty for Me > Sight for Sore Eyes > Mellow Yellow and Bossy Blue >Beyond the Horizon > A Normal Day in Esbjerg >Eat My Words.com >Plastic Passion > The Boys in Blue >Bacon, Bikes & Blondes >
Mellow Yellow and Bossy BlueMeet Mr Yellow. He bears a striking resemblance to Mr Blue. One and the same you might quite justifiably think because under the hats is Obeatta, a supervisor at APM Terminal’s Apapa port in Lagos, Nigeria. >
Sight for Sore Eyes"We have been monitoring some of the kids for a while, and we started noticing the lack of attention in class and poor performance, and we realized that those problems were related to eyesight problems.” >
Play Misty for MeFire is a terrifying adversary – it doesn’t take prisoners; in a house, in a hotel, in a factory, anywhere, it causes destruction and threatens life. >
Perfect Remote PerfectionFor a company that likes to operate remotely, eDrilling Solutions certainly know how to get up close and personal. >
Flames of KnowledgeWhen something is innovative the first reaction from those in the front row is vital and by all accounts the pilot six-day ‘super’ course for Enhanced Well Control experts hit the mark. >
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A Normal Day in EsbjergIt’s the sort of thing you do every day, fight a fire, navigate through a smoke-filled container, escape from a helicopter underwater . . . well not quite. >
Eat My Words.comWith social media there is nothing so damaging as an unhappy customer, nothing so effective as an honest, straightforward and unsolicited review. >
Plastic PassionThe Underhaug family might just qualify for the title of World’s Best Lego Lovers. In three homes they have enough of the world’s favourite toy to set up the first Norwegian Legoland. >
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Beyond the HorizonThere are some decisions that go down in history as game-changing – and there are some where the decision makers would have liked the opportunity to take the clock back and start over. >
The Boys in BlueWhen they pull on their jerseys, the youngsters of Dyce, dream of running out at some of the great stadiums of soccer, Bernabéu, Camp Nou, Anfield, Old Trafford. >
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The eSea editorial has tended, for 22 issues,
to be a prelude to what is inside, but loyal
readers will have noticed the curve of the
magazine’s presentation and design has been
a fast and steady one. Being electronic we’ve
noted that your reading habits are different,
you are actually more picky and choosy than
someone who has forked out many kroners,
pounds dollars, niras, rubles for a printed
version.
On the previous page of highlights you can
dip into the precise articles that interest you.
Actually this time around there is a handsome
variety, both in terms of geography and topics.
What has become the final, almost backpage,
article, Poopdeck, has always been a bit of
off-the-top-of-the-head observational fun, so
maybe the time has come for the editorial to
balance it with a bit more edge, something
that might provoke discussion.
So I lay this at your feet – are you fit for the
job? There are different requirements for
different industries and within the industries
different requirements for different sectors.
Look offshore and the line that splits the
Norwegian, British, Dutch and Danish
sectors of the North Sea doesn’t just relate to
geography and earning potential, but to how
you are trained, what equipment you use.
In eSea14 we touched on fitness (Don’t Blame
the Cook), pointing out that some guys are
deemed fit, but can’t see their toes let alone
touch them. Last week in order to go offshore
I needed ‘The Blue Book’ – a doctor’s certificate
to indicate my fitness and well being. Now I
don’t mind pointing out that I’m in the senior
citizen bracket and that the triathlon is not
a personal target or passion - but to fail the
medical exam I got the feeling that a limb had
to fall off in the doctor’s presence.
It is a difficult thing. The doctor is judge and
jury on your career, perhaps the adjudicator
on your ability to feed your family, maybe
even a friend of the family. It is a tough call,
so might they take the easy option and hope
your inability to react in an emergency doesn’t
affect others? What would be your solution?
The debate starts here.
Talking of debates Maersk Training is
sponsoring an online debate on the new IADC
WellSharp training programme. Date for
calendar September 16. Sign up for Virtual
Panel Discussion on IADC WellSharp: A
Revolution in Well Control Training - http://
www.drillingcontractor.org/vpd-registration-
wellsharp
The platforms of open opinion and potential of
globally communicating ideas have never been
so easy to stand on.
Richard [email protected]
Are you fit for the job?
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Feedback is a precious flame – it can enlighten, it can burn. When something is innovative the first reaction from those in the front row is vital and by all accounts the pilot six-day ‘super’ course for Enhanced Well Control experts hit the mark.
As Dave Conroy, observing
and taking part in the
whole process for IWCF put it,
‘this course sets the standard
for the future.’ It is something
which David Gouldin from Seadrill
expanded on ‘The standard sooner
rather than later and will have a
negative impact on the low-end
training providers.’
The participants were all guys
who had been there before, been
on every course to the highest
level and then suddenly found
themselves pushed and tested.
The rig managers, drillers and
senior supervisors from Seadrill
knew from minute one of day one
that the Enhanced Well Control
course at Maersk Training in
Svendborg was to be no ordinary
exercise.
The process set normal course
structure on its head – teach,
test, terminate is converted into
exam, educate, expand - as Joseph
explained, ‘ This is not the average
Well Control class reviewing the
basic topics and calculations to
pass the test at the end of the
week.’
UPSIDE DOWN‘This course starts with your
exam and then the course is
built to enhance you knowledge
including topics such as non-
circulating well control methods,
well control during cementing
and horizontal well control. It
enhances your performance by
offering simulation time focusing
on these events and incorporates
human factors by making us
aware of our behaviour.’
‘The course was clearly a huge
demand on both the trainers
and participants. We need to
convey to future students that
expectations are extremely
high and we need to have a
clear process for identifying the
individuals with the necessary
individual capabilities to attend,’
says David Gouldin.
Flames of Knowledge
‘This is not the average Well Control class’ – Joseph Coym, Performance Manager, Seadrill.
‘We will have some failures and we need to have a strategy to deal with this - remedial training, demotion or even termination . . . this issue is probably our biggest challenge’ – David Gouldin, Well Control Manager, Seadrill.
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Flames of Knowledge
Behind closed doors
People Skills instructor
Ed Corbett gets up close
and personal.
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The level of the course in terms of
expectation and implementation
is such that David sees the
biggest challenge in getting the
right people on the course –
otherwise there will be a need for
retraining or even the extreme
case of terminating contracts.
Participants should not be
frightened, but the enhanced
course offers no hiding place for
a lack of competencies. It was
after all a pilot course so its
structure was a much on test as
those taking part – it is part of the
Maersk Training methodology
that courses evolve and are
driven by collective experience.
Seadrill Training Competency
Manager Jay Brown said that this
approach was what was needed
because courses need to refocus
on learning versus certification/
compliance. ‘Developing a course
that challenges technical and
behavioral skills with a mixture
of simulations and classroom
training will surely add incredible
value to those who attend and our
company,’ says Jay.
THE NEXT STEPWhat the week did was to take a
fresh look at where the industry
is today and with the injection of
the human factor, re-align needs
and expectations. ‘The industry
has not stopped moving. Ten
years ago horizontal drilling was
a niche application, today most
wells are drilled as horizontals,’
says IWCF’s Dave.
The next stage in the process
will see a second pilot, this
time in Aberdeen marking the
inauguration of new simulator
suites similar to those developed
at Svendborg.
‘I’m very glad that Maersk
Training and Seadrill involved us
in the collaboration. They have
been very pro-active in promoting
this very much needed initiative
within the industry,’ says Dave
who added that the inclusion of oil
company representatives added an
extra degree to the whole process.
Looking at the particpants CV’s
in all there was over a century
of drilling knowledge – the
remarkable collective view
was that the six days added
considerably to it.
‘It was very important to be on the ground floor so we could help push the innovation forward’ – Dave Conroy, Chief Technical Officer, IWCF.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria – a
continent away but in the
same time zone another
group from Seadrill were
making a little bit of Maersk
Training history by taking
part in the first IWCF well
control course to be held at
the Nigerian centre.
Driller and instructor go one-to-one in the ’Dog House’
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They make the software
that makes an involvement
in and a contribution to long-
distance drilling possible. They
recently provided the computer
programming for a project which
enabled the crew to prepare for
the drill in Maersk Training’s
simulators in Stavanger and
then do the actual bore from a rig
700 kms away in the Norwegian
Sea whilst still under the
watchful and predictive eye of an
instructor.
Chief Instructor Just Wessel
remained based in Stavanger, but
he was one step ahead of the rig
crew, able to keep them informed
with what the computer software
believed from the geological
data was likely to happen. The
LWS (Live Well Support) service
was started in the first week of
Perfect Remote Perfection For a company that likes to operate remotely, eDrilling Solutions certainly know how to get up close and personal.
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February with a test and tune
phase in order to verify model
simulations for further drilling
operations. These were followed
by hydraulic-simulations and risk
analyses, with 3D visualization of
the wellbore conducted on a daily
basis. During the whole process
eDrilling and Just participated
daily in the operational meetings
to advise and support the
exploration department.
With all this remoteness it is quite
a contrast to find that eDrilling
shares the same office building
as Maersk Training and the
company making the simulators,
OilTec. The three companies
dine in the same canteen and are
within a floor of each other.
It is a compactness that Sven
Inge Ødegaard (pictured on
left) believes helps focus his
international team of 15, from
Norway, Russia, Afghanistan and
the Czech Republic who develop
the software – it means that trial
runs and ideas flow very freely
under one roof.
The remote drilling on the
Transocean Artic was very
successful – the feedback from the
oil company was totally positive
and they believe that it increased
efficiency. ‘Normally they use 25%
of the rig time to do the plug and
abandonment and in this case we
only used 12% of the time due to
the risks were updated, we didn’t
break anything, so it went better
than expected.’
GOODBYE DOG HOUSE The information gathered in
wellPlanner and wellAdvisor
helped to make the right decisions
during well construction and led
to a flawless P&A phase of this
well.
eDrilling Solutions started at a
technology day where Conoco
Phillips invited the industry to
listen to the needs of their future.
They listened to what Sven and
his colleagues had brought to the
party and liked it. The industry’s
needs increased and eventually
real-time simulation was born.
Sven sees the future as bright, a
growing dependence on the value
of pre-drill training and practice,
a growing dependence on
simulators showing the way. One
prediction: ‘the dog house will be
a thing of the past, replaced by
a central control room, all hard
work done robotically.’
What makes the Live Well
Support most effective is using it
on the right well. It’s a resource at
any time, but most value when the
specific well is a tricky prospect.
'The remote drilling on the Transocean Artic was very successful – the feedback from the oil company was totally positive and they believe that it increased efficiency'.
‘the dog house will be a thing of the past, replaced by a central control room, all hard work done robotically.’
Fire is a terrifying adversary – it doesn’t take prisoners; in a house, in a hotel, in a factory, anywhere, it causes destruction and threatens life. On board a vessel it does both at an alarming rate because the options of running from it are limited, the concentration of equipment intense. It’s estimated that a fire in a ship’s engine room costs one million dollars a minute once it takes hold.
The traditional ways of fighting
the fire with sprinklers or
low pressure CO2 based systems
are costly. With water damage the
cure is often as expensive as the
cause and that makes it a big call
for a crewmember to opt for them.
Remember $1 million a minute,
that’s $17,000 a second.
Enter a ‘very fine’ Danish
invention, all the way from
Odense -an invention that
safeguards the two biggest cruise
ships in the world, the Maersk
Line Triple E container vessels
and is currently being installed in
Maersk Supply vessels.
The solution is water, but not in
powerful hoses or conventional
sprinkler systems but dispersed
as a high-pressure mist. A fire
needs three things to grow, fire
itself, oxygen and something to
burn. Remove any one of these
elements and the fire will quickly
die.
MINUTE DROPLETS The secret in the Danfoss
Semco Sem-Safe® system is
that the nozzles, which can be
triggered automatically by heat
or manually, throw out such an
ultra fine spray that it removes
the oxygen whilst simultaneously
killing the fire. The flames don’t
stand a chance. The minute
droplets in the spray quickly
absorb heat to cool the room –
bigger droplets from traditional
sprays are less effective in
absorbing and survive to hit the
floor. The effectiveness rate is
seven times more than traditional
sprays, which means that less
water is needed in the storage
reservoir with the side benefit
of getting rid of a destabilizing
aspect. Also since the water
has vaporized there is very
little damage of machinery or
equipment.
Another aspect with other
systems such as CO2 is that
they themselves are dangerous
and expensive to demonstrate.
Training is therefore limited to
releasing the gas under special
circumstances. Maersk Training,
as part of the package that
Danfoss Semco have with Maersk
Supply, took delivery recently of
the world’s first training demo
set. Six tiny jets now stick out of
the side of a garage wall, looking
no more high tech than a pigeon
scaring device; behind the wall
there is an impressive series of
pipes and release valves.
The system now means that all
Maersk Supply crews can gain
first-hand experience of what
the mist does, and almost before
their backs are turned the ultra
fine mist has evaporated from the
concrete floor. Click here to Play
Misty For You.
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Sight for Sore EyesThe old adage, ‘give a man a fish and he has a meal for a day, teach a man to fish and he has food for life,’ could be adapted to cover an eye-opening situation in Brazil where those who have, have given to those who don’t have.
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Give a child with poor eyesight
glasses and you show
them the door of opportunity
and potential. Brazil is going to
be frequently on our lips until
well after the next Olympics,
with much of the non-sporting
coverage touching on the
considerable gap between poverty
and wealth.
The wealthy district of Ipanema in
Rio de Janeiro is a mixture where
the public schools draw pupils
from poor neighbouring Favelas
as well as the local well-off
families. For some children sitting
in class it is a struggle because
their parents can’t afford to put
right one thing that is a major
stumbling block to their learning
and development process – poor
eyesight.
Juliana is fairly typical. Her
father works as a doorman in
Ipanema, and her mother works
as a housekeeper. For her family,
reading glasses could cost them a
month of groceries.
EYE-ACHEThe principal of the Henrique
Dodsworth School, Maria
Bernadette Berriel, was one of
those responsible for selecting
the students who would receive
glasses. “We have been monitoring
some of the kids for a while, and
we started noticing the lack
of attention in class and poor
performance, and we realized
that those problems were related
to eyesight problems.” said
Bernadette, who has been working
in the school for 35 years. “Some of
the parents were giving painkillers
to the children, without realizing
that the headaches were caused by
vision difficulties”
Henrique Dodsworth School
is located at the heart of the
wealthy Ipanema, while most of
the students come from the slum
Rocinha, the poor neighbour of
Ipanema. The social gap between
the students and the residents
can be noticed by the difference
between the cars of the student’s
parents and the ones parked
nearby.
It is a problem recognized by
the local Rotary Club and the
Maersk Training centre in Rio
and they joined the students and
professors to deliver eyeglasses.
“I agree with one of our mottos:
‘Service Above Self’, is a way
to cooperate for a better, more
ethical, and more equal society,”
said Navy Commander Luciano
Salomon, one of the Rotarians
attending the ceremony.
Sight for Sore Eyes < Spectacle day and life gets into focus for these young men.
“We have been monitoring some of the kids for a while, and we started noticing the lack of attention in class and poor performance, and we realized that those problems were related to eyesight problems.”
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Meet Mr Yellow. He bears a striking resemblance to Mr Blue. One and the same you might quite justifiably think because under the hats is Obeatta, a supervisor at APM Terminal’s Apapa port in Lagos, Nigeria. But in the few seconds it takes to switch hats, Mr Mellow Yellow turns into Mr Bossy Blue.
Obeatta and his colleague
Michael were ‘volunteers’
for a new video project which
was aimed at making training
on the quayside more realistic
and digestible. Turning common
quayside scenarios into actual
situations, over three days they
shouted at each other, talked
calmly and provoked ‘what would
you do next?’ situations.
They adapted to their acting
role so smoothly that they were
nicknamed Morgan and Freeman
by the director/cameraman
who said that in thirty years in
television he had rarely come
across two people so instinctively
natural in front of the camera.
‘Out of 36 sequences, we only had
to do two of them as re-takes, and
they were my fault!’ he said.
Going through the scenarios,
Obeatta would approach Michael
and tackle him for sleeping in his
cab, for being in the wrong place,
for wandering about looking for
his container, for speeding and
even for being drunk. First of all
Mellow Yellow and Bossy Blue
Obeatta wearing two
hats and right as he
approaches ‘co-star’
Michael
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he did it with the blue helmet
on, taking an aggressive no-
nonsense approach and then
in yellow with a consolatory,
care-driven manner aimed at
reaching understanding in a calm
controlled way.
‘The decision to do the videos was
because we needed something
that the APMT workforce in
West Africa could relate too.
Most training material is centred
around western imagery, but we
wanted something that struck
an accord,’ says Morten Kaiser,
Chief Instructor, People Skills at
Maersk Training.
Cut into bite-sized bits the
instructive scenarios were back
in Africa within weeks playing to
terminals staff at Apapa in Lagos
and Accra in Ghana.
The two ‘actors’ were able to
contribute more than just their
presence. They had the key to
the quay and they used it to
instantly open up situations
which normally would have taken
prolonged negotiation. In order to
make the videos realistic, Obeatta
and Michael felt more comfortable
doing it in pidgin English, a bonus
to the feel and appeal of the end
product.
Mellow Yellow and Bossy Blue
Click here and meet
Mr Yellow and Mr Blue.‘How bodi?’ *Prince Charles in Papua New Guinea, once introduced himself as
the "Numbawan pikinini bilong Misis Kwin", or 'number one child
belonging to Mrs Queen.'
Pidgin – is any language which is a combination of two or more
languages which can be used as a common tongue to communicate
between different groups. Within Nigeria pidgin varies greatly
from place to place – however it acts as a common communication
between the country’s 250 or more ethnic groups. It is a widely
spoken language in Nigeria and used across West Africa.
Pidgin emerged as a form of communication between colonists
and locals in the trading days of empires and along the routes of
the slave trade. A kind of basic baby talk, it is unstructured with no
grammatical rules. When it develops a structure it is called creole by
which time it is well on its way to becoming a distinct language.
The origin of the term ‘pidgin’ is a bit confused. Some say it is
derivation of pigeon following the old way of transferring messages,
but it is thought by academics to more likely to come from the way
the Chinese pronounce the English word business.
*Nigerian pidgin for ‘How are you?’
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The only uneven part of this international boundary deal was that, unknown to anyone, most of the good stuff was on the Norwegian side of the fence.
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It is not uncommon for locals to invest in a second house and then rent it out. With the foreign workers gone, many are now lying empty.’
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Real Journey for SimulatorThey could call it the KM16,000
rather than DS6000. The new
flagship simulator has finally
‘docked’ at Maersk Training
in Stavanger after a two-year
16,000km journey which took
it from Drilling Systems’
factory in southern England to
Houston. Originally destined
for the Transocean training
centre in Texas the DS6000 was
transported back across the
Atlantic in order to get it up and
running whilst the new Maersk
Training complex, which will
cover Transocean’s training
needs, was under construction
in Houston. Dome versions of
the DrillSIM 6000, similar to
the one at Maersk Training in
Svendborg, will eventually be
installed in the US hub.
Like a squirrel the Government has been putting aside some of today’s riches so that a giant pension fund exists for the whole country. Each Norwegian has 1.35 million kroner currently set aside for them.
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It’s the sort of thing you do every day, fight a fire, navigate through a smoke-filled container, escape from a helicopter underwater . . . well not quite.
There is one particularly
simple and satisfying
moment on the BOSIET course –
Basic Offshore Safety Induction
Emergency Training – especially
for those frequent flyers who
listen attentively to the on board
safety instructions. Somehow
you always trust the information
that the life vest is under your
seat. You don’t tend to see people
feeling around to check the
stewards are not joking, but what
you never get to do is to pull the
rip cord and inflate, until that is,
end of day two on BOSIET. Not as
forceful, immediate or substantial
as the car air bag, but from zero
to full the self-inflating jacket is
impressive.
Survival is what BOSIET is all
about and why it is mandatory for
those working offshore. But there
is much more to it, there is a lot
of attention put into getting you
into a frame of mind to help avoid
accidents through good house-
keeping and common sense.
THE FEAR OF DANGER Common sense can get you a
long way with this course. On
day one there’s a tick-the-boxes
test where you have to get at
least 14 of the 18 questions right
before moving on, but plain
common sense will get you half
way there. The rest is nudged into
you in a classroom. Then there’s
a day-long session in and out of
the pool with life rafts, survival
suits, escape shuts and, of course,
HUET – Helicopter Underwater
Escape Training, once upon a
time a separate course but now
integrated.
It is here you learn a lot about
yourself and your temporary
colleagues. There is no danger,
just the fear of danger – with
one-to-one expert support there
A Normal Day in Esbjerg
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is no need for fear. Uncertainty
is the embryo of fear and the
thought of being submerged
in a tin can that revolves 180
degrees, is perhaps the single
most destabilising aspect for
some course participants – until
they do it. Hanging upside down,
strapped in and with limited air, it
is surprisingly easy, like stepping
out of bed in the morning and
being swept upwards.
RIGHT WAY UP When the chopper ditches the
right way up and fills with water
you need more force to avoid
being pulled up onto the ceiling
and then having to struggle
against buoyancy to get out the
window to safety.
On board an offshore installation,
rig or production platform,
there is no room for observers.
Everyone must be able to be able
and the final day covers aspects
which have a value everywhere,
First Aid and firefighting.
Different parts of the world
require different qualifications,
but once over this last hurdle you
are ‘good to go’ as they say for four
years. Not four years and a day
– certain aspects of BOSIET are
very strict and if you miss your
deadline you can’t simply do the
one day refresher, you must do all
three. Miss any part of the course,
sleeping in, car breakdown, and
like snakes and ladders you go
to the bottom and start all over
again.
In addition to BOSIET for the
Danish sector you need the Blue
Book medical check which is
every two years and for a Maersk
installation visit you also need
to pass an online test that takes
about three hours. The whole
process is time consuming, but
you do leave with a more rounded
feeling and a greater natural
awareness for safety and survival
at home, work and play. Better Off
Safe In Every Thing – BOSIET, is a
normal day in Esbjerg.
Though HUET is integrated into BOSIET it is also a 1-day stand-alone course for the wind turbine industry.
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Consumer power is the new driving force for standards and business survival. With social media there is nothing so damaging as an unhappy customer, nothing so effective as an honest, straightforward and unsolicited review.
Gavin Barker is a
Yorkshireman, which
genetically means the distance
between the thought process
and the action of speaking is
short. They call a spade a spade in
Yorkshire, though in Gavin’s case
a fork a fork.
Gavin thinks a lot about eating
- good food is his passion and
praising it, or evaluating it
negatively, is what has lead him
to have 30,000 readers for his
restaurant reviews. As a finance
guy he’s more at home with figures
than words. ‘I give it straight
and simple, and it seems to be
appreciated.’ In two years fourteen
restaurants and cafes have been
subject to Gavin’s appraisal.
Good, bad or indifferent the
experience is usually translated
into an expanded observation.
Travel is his other passion, so that
opens up more taste buds and
the two pursuits sit comfortably
side-by-side. ’Only on a couple of
occasions have I travelled to eat –
one was a flight from Stavanger to
Copenhagen and a table at Noma.‘
Eat My Words.com
Gavin’s tip to enjoying a meal in a good restaurant
– ‘don’t look at the bill. You know what it is going
to cost the trick is don’t look at the bill, there’s no point crying about it, you made the decision to go to that
restaurant.’
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‘It was a big table, I wanted to be
in an area where people found
the food the centre of attention,
not who was at the next table
or who was wearing what. It
was an amazing experience, the
single most expensive eating
experience I’ve ever had. We had
a tour of the kitchen afterwards
and we could see how the staff are
underpressure to be extra special,
extra creative.’
‘I can see why Noma has two Michelin stars. Very intelligent food served by people who have worked incredibly hard to re-invent taste sensations and combinations. I can also see why it doesn't have three though. Dripping red wine onto the table, sloppy sauce pouring, a whiteboard complete with post-its partly hidden behind a curtain makes this just a little too casual for a global leader in my opinion.’
He doesn’t get paid for his
contributions to tripadvisor.
The most expensive meal was at
Noma were the bill was around
7,000dkk. If you trim back by
avoiding wine you can opt for a
different juice with each course;
the juice alone is over 800dkk. His
197 word review of Noma was at
35 kroner a word – that’s the price
of a Big Mac in Copenhagen. So
would he have preferred 197 Big
Macs? ‘McDonald’s deserves full
marks in any review – they are
exactly what they say they are
and that you can’t fault or argue
with,’ he says.
PEOPLE POWER Regardless of cost he feels
reward from being a soldier in the
growing army of consumers who
have grabbed critical power.
‘I started using tripadvisor as
a cost-savings thing because
as a finance guy and not from a
rich family, I used it to find the
cheapest places to eat and then I
just fell in love with it,’ he says.
‘Social Media has given the
customers unionization.
tripadvisor has done that.
We have a power which can
literally pull the shutters down
on something that is not up to
standard.’
Likewise it can reverse fortunes.
In Singapore Mr Lan and his wife
were retiring after 41 years of
dawn to dusk in their restaurant,
or was it prawn to duck, anyway
they had a recipe for beef no one
else could match. They were
bought for $3million, not for their
ten tables and 30 chairs, but one
much-praised secret recipe.
Gavin’s tip to enjoying a meal in
a good restaurant – ‘don’t look at
the bill. You know what it is going
to cost the trick is don’t look at the
bill, there’s no point crying about
it, you made the decision to go to
that restaurant.’
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The Underhaug family might just qualify for the title of World’s Best Lego Lovers. In three homes they have enough of the world’s favourite toy to set up the first Norwegian Legoland. What is especially special about this expensive collection is that, unlike just about everywhere else where plastic bricks are piled into boxes, all are built to what the image was on the box, all constantly admired or played with, never lying about.
Lego has been a part of most
families for decades, but the
passion for mum Karen, husband
Morten and sons Birk and Loke
really only started five years ago.
‘The whole family’s involved, we
have sessions which sometimes
last six hours,’ says Karen. ‘What
we like about it is that it is a
place where three generations
can be together, focused on one
thing – it is a great way for us to
communicate as a family.’
There is logic to the way the Lego
is distributed between the three
Underhaug homes in the small
town of Nærbø in south western
Norway. The smaller models are
in a large playroom between
Birk and Loke’s bedrooms, the
bigger building projects live with
Morten’s brother keeping them
out of reach of Birk and Loke’s
school-friends who are more
destructive than constructive and
the Christmas-themed items are
with Morten’s mum and dad.
BRICKS BUILD FAMILY ‘One of the highlights of
Christmas is the building of
the annual big project, usually
a large building,’ says Karen.
‘We set aside the whole day.’
The Underhaug’s are Lego
traditionalists – the youngest
generation being boys there is no
room for Barbie-type models and
eight year old Birk is a realist at
heart, ‘so we’ve very little Star
Wars or sci-fi.‘ When asked to
nominate his favourite piece he
goes straight to the Antarctic
table and picks up a snow tractor.
Plastic Passion
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The Lego is a bond, but not the
only one. The family is a strong
element in Norwegian life and
Morten’s parents, his brother and
wife and Karen and the children
meet and eat together three times
a week.
‘We get very excited when a new
product comes out,’ says Karen.
They’ve been to Legoland in
Denmark several times, the last
time they were staying for a week
at a nature adventure park with
multiple swimming pools, horse
riding and outdoor activities, ‘but
we couldn’t resist driving over
to Legoland . . . . every day,’ says
Morten.
The collection has Maersk trains,
Maersk containers and lorries,
but there’s one item missing from
it. ‘They don’t do drilling rigs,
that’s something that would be
very appropriate,’ says Karen who
works in course administration
at Maersk Training’s centre in
Stavanger, 40 minutes’ drive
away.
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When they pull on their jerseys, the youngsters of Dyce, dream of running out at some of the great stadiums of soccer, Bernabéu, Camp Nou, Anfield, Old Trafford. Part of that dream is the sponsorship of the club – soccer is the world’s biggest business sport, to get a slice of the action huge commercial companies pay equally huge sums of money. But what do they get in return?
We spoke to the top man of
one of the most treasured
footballing brands about the
value of sponsorship. He wished
to give us an anonymous insight;
sponsorship negotiating is a very
sensitive plant, all we will say is
that his charge is one of the teams
in the list to the right, and it’s not
Dyce.
The big boys are global brands
and have more followers than the
populations of all but two of the
world’s countries. Getting your
company on the chest of Cristiano
Ronaldo costs millions and will
generate millions. It is a difficult
equation to work out, but both
parties seem to be happy, even if
it takes a little give on the part of
The Boys in Blue
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the soccer club. Real Madrid, for
instance, removed the Christian
cross from their badge to gain
acceptance from the Middle East
and their sponsor Emirates Airline.
FEEL-GOOD FACTOR At the other end of the scale the
players of Dyce have a new set of
jerseys, emblazoned with Maersk
Training on their young chests.
We asked the top man what is
the payback as they kids play in
front of ten parents and a dog.
‘You won’t get a big contract out of
it, but what you get is a feel-good
factor within the local community.
That’s very important, it is part
of your footprint,’ the expert
observed.
The big boys do the same,
although they have principal
sponsors they also have local
targets to increase the feel-good
factor. Manchester United have
a global fan base of more than
500 million, some of whom are
in Thailand, a country that has
never contributed a player to the
team, but they do have a scooter
named after them. Getting the
name on the streets makes
television rights for the area more
attractive. More attractive equals
money in the sponsor equation.
Gaining a presence is a whole
industry in itself, and it’s open to a
fair degree of industrial sabotage
or ambush marketing as it is
called. There have been several
classics in the past. Nike were the
main sponsors of the ’96 Atlanta
Olympics and put security people
on duty to make sure that no one
came into the stadium with rival
sportswear. When they did get in
they saw that Adidas had bought
up the internal billboard space.
Then famously runner Linford
Christie got on television at the
same Games with the Puma logo
on his contact lenses.
In the meantime the youngsters of
Dyce don’t have to revert to such
tactics, every Saturday morning
for the rest of the season, they
will proudly pull on their kit and
run out an hopefully prove that
training at every level is vital.
Here’s a little competition, match the sponsor to the football club.
Fly Emirates
UNICEF
Chevrolet
Standard Chartered
Maersk Training
Dyce
Barcelona
Liverpool
Real Madrid
Manchester United
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Bacon, bikes and blondes – three of life’s essentials, though in truth if it came down to the line, I could live without the bike. In this context they have a connection, communication, or varying degrees of how to, or how not to, get the message across.
Let’s start with bacon, the only
thing they don’t fight over
on the Gaza Strip. What was the
management of a basic, though
adequately comfortably hotel in
Stavanger doing by sticking a
notice in the lift?
It pointed out that they, the hotel
management, had identified that
red meat was a major contributor
to the fragility of the earth’s eco-
system. Something like 18% of
destructive gases, largely from
cattle, have a negative effect on
our protective zones – so as their
contribution the hotel chain had
decided to ban bacon. Of course
the ‘no bacon at breakfast policy’
is a small price to pay to save the
world, but somehow the logic
wilts when, still wet from the
shower, you come across the trays
of ham and salami and the diary
products at the morning buffet.
The ban bacon movement so
far hasn’t gained too much
momentum, each week,
worldwide 23 million pigs are
slaughtered, but I suppose you
have to start somewhere. The
next step in the communication
process would be to promote it on
the hotel’s web site – ‘we are a no
smoking, no bacon hotel’. I suspect
they won’t, it might nudge them
into a niche market. Or they could
be honest and just say ‘we don’t
want to pay someone to turn on
the cooker at 6am.’
BIKE TRAINING Biking in mountain-free Denmark
is a joy – it’s unlikely that
anywhere else in the world has
incorporated it so deeply into
the transport culture. But like
many great ideas it hasn’t been
fully thought through, or at least
they haven’t fully communicated
to newcomers how to go about
transporting your bike-by-train
- trains incidentally which have
no provision for easy access or
storage.
In the summer break I caught a
bus from San Sebastian to Bilbao
in Spain. One of the passengers
was a paraplegic, traveling alone.
A huge door at the back open and
out of the side of the bus came a
hydraulic lift that smoothly took
her, sitting in her wheelchair, from
ground a secure spot on board.
Back to Denmark and a semi-able
cyclist. The journey to Esbjerg
involved three trains each way
and outbound this meant failing
three times to click into the
booking system because the
bike was listed as an Ekstra. The
hitch was that no information
said the extra defies logic and
comes first when logging in with
your Travelcard. So the illegal
ticketless journey resulted in
sitting on a flap-up seat with the
back wheel between my legs for
50km, standing and holding it by
a doorway for 50kms, and for the
last leg being told off for using the
wrong unmarked door and then
threatened with a substantial fine
for not having clicked in.
SEAT WITH VIEW The return journey hit new
heights – at a machine I did my
best and bought a 52dkk ticket
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for the bike using a credit card.
This was adequate from Esbjerg
to Frederica, but when boarding
the InterCity train I was told that
in the summer the bike needed a
seat. I expect bikes get more tired
in the heat.
I pause here because you probably
think that’s a misprint.
It wasn’t. To cap it all, for 30dkk
at the Seven Eleven, the bike
got a window seat! There was a
German tourist in front of me at
the ticket machine in Frederica,
I know that because his bike was
worth more than my car, and no
one else cycles in lederhosen. He
temporally abandoned his quest,
even more confused than me and I
suspect he’s still there wondering
would his bike prefer the aisle or
the window and maybe should it
be in the silent zone.
To ensure I got full value for my
30dkk I asked the conductor to
explain the logic behind it all.
He smiled, said it was a problem
and neither he nor the big wheels
in at HQ understood it –‘they’re
working on simplifying it.’
Again it is a communication issue.
But all the more complex because
what they are not communicating
is illogical. It’s from the close-
my-eyes-and-hope-it-goes-away
school of communication.
... AND FINALLY There’s a group of Norwegian
guys with wide-open eyes who
really can communicate in terms
of getting a message and image
across. They’ve gone from zero to
mega in the Scandinavian fashion
business. A little more than ten
years ago they decided that
clothes were boring and needed to
speak for themselves and say ‘hey
wear me I’m fun and you’ll seem
like fun if you wear me.’
They came up with Moods of
Norway, the current ‘in’ clobber if
you are Norwegian and rich. Not
to repeat myself, the clothes are
expensive, but nice. Courtesy of a
30% discount I bought a polo shirt
from a very attractive blonde girl,
liked it, the shirt, but the fun only
really started when I noticed the
labeling on the inside. It said ‘Made
with love by really really pretty
blonde girls.’ So tickled I ordered
two more online and then noticed
the washing instructions, at the
bottom it said, Made In China.
Now I’ve been to China five
times and don’t recall being
struck by the number of
blondes. So I emailed Moods of
Norway asking for a photo of
the really really pretty blonde
Chinese girls - I‘m still waiting.
Perhaps I’ve stumbled upon
the first breakdown in their
communications.
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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
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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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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
eLibrary
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
To go back in time and access articles from previous issues, simply click on the photo of the edition or use the QR code.
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
eLibrary
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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