COME ONE COME ALL FOREIGNERS TO OUR MIGHTY NATION YEARNING TO BESTOW OUR GREAT WEALTH UPON THEE!
Presented for your enlightenment:
BALDER (owned by Heerema Contractors, the Netherlands)
BOA DEEP C (owned by BOA Group AS, Norway & chartered by Aker Subsea, Norway)
BOA SUB C (owned by BOA Group AS, Norway & chartered by Aker Subsea, Norway)
CONCORDIA (owned by ProSafe AS, Sweden)
CSO DEEP BLUE (owned by Technik-CoFlexip, France)
EPIC DIVER (owned by Epic Divers and Marine, USA)
GULMAR CONDOR (owned by Gulmar, United Arab Emirates)
GULMAR FALCON (owned by Gulmar, United Arab Emirates)
HAVILA PHOENIX (owned by Havila Offshore AS, Norway & chartered by Phoenix Diving, USA)
KESTREL (owned by CalDive International, USA)
KINGFISHER (owned by Veolia Environmental Services, France)
MYSTIC VIKING (owned by CalDive International, USA)
NOR TIGERFISH (owned by NOR Shipping, Norway & chartered by Veolia Environmental, France)
NORMAND CLIPPER (owned by Solstad Shipping AS, Norway and chartered by Clough PLC, Australia)
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NORTHERN RESOLUTION (owned by C&C Technologies, USA)
OCEAN INTERVENTION III (owned by Island Offshore, Norway and chartered by Oceaneering International, USA)
OLYMPIC CHALLENGER (owned by Olympic Shipping AS, Norway & chartered by Global Industries, USA)
OLYMPIC INTERVENTION IV (owned by Olympic Shipping AS, Norway & chartered by Oceaneering International, USA)
REM CLOUGH (owned by Rem Offshore AS, Norway & chartered by Clough PLC, Australia)
REM COMMANDER (owned by REM Offshore AS, Norway and chartered by Global Industries, USA)
SIEM SWORDFISH (owned by Siem Offshore AS, Norway & chartered by Veolia Environmental Services, France)
THIALF (owned by Heerema Contractors, the Netherlands)
UNCLE JOHN (owned by CalDive International, USA)
and last but certainly not the last to invade
VIKING POSEIDON (owned by Eidsvik Shipping AS, Norway & chartered by Veolia Environmental Services, France)
So there we go boys and girls...ships owned by Norwegians and chartered by the French working in the USA without a single American Mariner in their crews...
to quote David Letterman, "something just doesn't smell right with this"
10 comments:
Dear C. Captain-
This is awesome homework. It is truly a disgrace what is happening. As you know, I have set-up a web site where you can easily write your congressman. It is www.jonesactquestions.com and just click on the Action Alert and fill out the form. If enough people do it, I am sure they will stop this pratice. Thanks or all your hard work
C. Captain,
I work offshore in the Golf of Mexico and my co-workers and I have worked on at least 8 of the vessels you just mentioned. It is true that most of the crew members are from Norway, the Philippines, etc. but they mainly do the bitch work such as cleaning, washing and cooking. Most of the relevant operations (diving, equipment installation/maintenance, engineering, management) are performed by US citizens
GoM is by far the crappiest place I have sailed ever, and I have been around...
If the Americans had designed as good and sophisticated vessels as we do, you could have GoM all for yourselves!
The problem with you guys is that you dont see past your own nosetip.
And the big question is how many vessels operates in the GoM total?
A lot. So the number of norwegian vessels becomes a drop in the ocean!
"They really bring color and light to such a drab and dreary land. And how even more wonderful that we are helping the deprived and impoverished mariners of Norway, Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia and the Phillipines the chance to make a living in OUR land of PLENTY."
USA the greatest country in the world ??
Wake up !! face the reality !
You are far behind a lot of other countries,in many areas. Such as technology, human rights,gender equality.
And you are far from the richest country in the world(i know you want to be)
After beein there some times me, and other i know see how you and your kids have been brainwashed from the birth about this"greatest country in the world"
I have worked with americans and I have worked with americans vessel in operations that demands several vessel working together. Even if my vessel was 10 years old and the american vessel was brand new, it looked like the american vessel was 20 years older.
The american vessel was more alongside doing repars and fixing problems caused by the american officers ( grounding, cables in their propellers, fishing net in the propeller)than actually being out working with the project.
The 1 1/2 year my vessel and the american vessel worked together we had 0 incidents causing us to go alongside for repairs done by fault of the persons working onboard while the american vessel was alongside 8 times ;-)
You are just lucky that get good vessel and educated seamen to GoM, the worst seamanship I have ever seen is the american.
You can not even tie a vessel??
Sorry but that is the truth.
How many US built, US staffed, US flag vessels could do the work that these foreign ones can?
I give you some hints.
Super Heavy lift ships to compete with the Heereema ships, <1.
Pipe lay vessels to compete with Allseas and the like <2.
Umbilical lay vessels <1.
Deep sea MSVs <5.
Fact is there are next to no US operated vessels that can do the work these ship do. If US ship operators want to compete they need some ships first.
Another fact is most of these ships are supported by lots of US labor. Equipment they install is built here, projects in the GoM are run from here, etc, etc.
The foreign companies also provide jobs for US citizens abroad. Lots of ROV pilots and SAT divers that work for these companies are from the US.
The drive to push these companies out of the GoM is just going to bite the hand that feeds thousands of US workers.
So there we go boys and girls...ships owned by Norwegians and chartered by the French working in the USA without a single American Mariner in their crews...
to quote David Letterman, "something just doesn't smell right with this"
This is a false statement. Obviously you have not been on any of these ships. There are US Mariners working on many of them although they are in the minority.
I am 52 yrs old born in the US. I have worked for Veolia for 8 years in America. Veolia employs 1,000's of Americans and provides top rated benefits and good pay. I am proud of the Veolia vessels in the Gulf.
I use to be a deckhand for Global Industries years ago before I went to work on Rigs. After being laid off, I found myself working a contract job for Global Industries on the Olympic Challenger. Someone should check to see if the Olympic Challenger ever did any work for the Deepwater Horizon. I believe they dropped something.
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