eSea 20 - On the Move

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On the move

From Diverse to Dynamic >New Day, New Horizon >Working for Transition >The Duke of Hazzard >Caso do Constant Care >Karoline’s Tartan Diary >2000 Light Years From Home >

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New Day, New HorizonThe night of July 6, 1988 is scared into the memories of oilmen. The explosion and subsequent destruction of Piper Alpha claimed 167 lives and sent a wave of realization and horror through the industry and beyond. >

From Diverse to DynamicAllan’s team at Dong Energy in Esbjerg looks after the Horns Reef 2 Offshore wind farm. They are a diverse bunch with a common aim and what Allan has put into motion will, he believes, create a winning team. >

Working for TransitionFor Leanne Stewart, her new job means, fresh opportunities, but the same car parking space, same building, almost same desk. And she’s still very excited. >

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Caso do Constant CareMaersk’s establishing value is Constant Care, and it has been a guiding beacon for all this century. However it is relatively novel when you meet someone like Eunice Cariry. She’s been constantly caring since 1968. >

Very First Responders On a night out to celebrate successfully completing a medical course, three young men were on the spot to deliver emergency first aid to a woman who was suffering an epileptic seizure on Newcastle’s Quayside. >

51 Shades of GreyIt’s never had quite the same appeal as Monte Carlo or Rio de Janeiro. When you market yourself as ‘the granite city’ the uptake in travel tickets is bound to be patchy at best. Having said that, through it all Aberdeen basks in its greyness.

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Karoline’s Tartan Diary"Been here six weeks now. The first week was a bit difficult because I couldn’t grasp the Scottish accent, but I think now I’m getting most of it". >

The Duke of HazzardDuke is one of the newest employees at Svitzer. He’s been a huge success in his role, credited with helping to dramatically reduce the number of accidents and hours lost by incidents. >

2000 Light Years From HomeAccording to Albert Einstein's famous equation, E = mc², time travel is possible, at least in one direction, forward. It’s not for me to question one of the greatest brains of all time, but I beg to differ. Going back is easy. >

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If you really like a challenge, there is little

point doing it when conditions are perfect.

Like those guys who just conquered the

impossible by climbing El Capitan, 914 metres

of sheer smooth Yosemite rock. They chose

January to do the most difficult climb in the

world. It was like watching two ants scale a

tiled bathroom wall knowing that the shower

was likely to come on at any moment and

sweep them away.

So the challenge we set ourselves at eSea was

a timely one, to see what makes Aberdeen

sparkle in mid-winter. Aberdeen, so good they

named it once, does suffer from a negative

image flow. We chose to visit whilst the New

Year vibes for hope were still pulsating. A new

start for a company, triggers three people to

talk about their careers and hopes in this oil

city. We also take time to look at the city itself

through a pen and lens. It comes out quite

nicely.

East of Aberdeen, a part of the North Sea is

rich in energy, not oil, but wind generated

power. We visit the control centre for

Denmark’s most efficient offshore windfarm

and see how training an entire team using

‘soft skills’ has generated new and better

understanding for each and every one of them.

We meet Duke who has successfully fronted

a campaign to reduce accidents, and never

been paid for it. His contribution to tumbling

accident statistics is recognised by all those

who have seen him in action.

Somebody who benefited from the positive

effect of training was a lady in Newcastle.

She collapsed in the street just metres from

a trio of wind turbine engineers who had

just completed a First Response course.

Their prompt and correct action turned a

potentially dangerous event into an incident.

The opposite of First Response could be

constant care. eSea is not confined to

industrially based stories and here we tell

the tale of Eunice Cariry, an elderly lady who

has been looking after ‘the excluded of the

excluded’ – the native Brazilians who have

mental or physical problems, but whose

families and tribes cannot cope with them.

Since 1968 she’s been operating a refuge for

them in Rio de Janeiro.

We hope you see some flashes of inspiration in

what these stories portray and that you find

2015 a positive challenge with equally positive

rewards.

editorial

Richard [email protected]

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Allan Overbeck would like to see life in pale blue, not necessarily the Maersk colour that he knew in his maritime career, but the result of mixing the white and blue collar workforce he now heads into a uniform colour. Allan’s team at Dong Energy in Esbjerg looks after the Horns Reef

2 Offshore wind farm 60 kilometres off the Danish coast. They consist of office and warehouse staff and a team of technicians. They are a diverse bunch with a common aim and what Allan has put into motion will, he believes, create a winning team.

‘If you were to look upon me as

a football manager I’d say that I

know that one player can win a

match but you need a team to win

the championship,’ he says.

Allan’s quest has been shared by

the People Skills team at Maersk

Training. ‘I did a one day course

on leadership, but realised that

it wasn’t enough, not just for me

but for the dynamics of the whole

unit. We are all leaders, from the

guys in the warehouse up,’ says

Allan.

That’s why he enlisted the help of

Morten Kaiser at Maersk Training

and they brought together the

land-bound employees in his

team – ‘it is the first stage in

a three stage programme,’ he

From Diverse to Dynamic

Allan and Morten check the weather but they know that the North Sea is too rough for working, so the supply boats remain docked4

From Diverse to Dynamic

explains, ‘we have given the office

people an insight into themselves

and how to read and deal with

others, next we will involve the

technicians and finally do a light

version of situational leadership

for everyone.’

The initial courses came at the

right time because they coincided

with a physical move into new

quayside facilities – for the first

time the whole team could be

housed under one roof and that

opened up opportunities and

challenges.

A CLEAN SHEETKent Jensen joined the company

less than a year ago and as

a warehouse assistant it is

expected of him to know the

location of any piece of equipment

or replacement component at a

moment’s notice. Setting up a new

storeroom from scratch is a great

opportunity, but only if those

doing it are of the same mind-set.

‘One of the main things I got out

of the course is that it is easier to

say “I don’t know this” and that

I need help with the different

parts, because the other guys

can see that you are maybe a

little unsure of what it is about.

That’s what Michael (the other

warehouse employee) and I

discussed. For him it could have

been easy to take for granted that

I understood, when I felt like a

giant question mark, and now he

can also see that,’ says Kent.

‘Now after the course when I talk to technicians I ask questions in a different way just to make sure we are one the same page, to make sure they see it the way I see it.’

It is probably this increased

dialogue and greater

understanding that Allan sees

as the first big benefit from

the course. Nine of the staff

were on it and they have all

reported back that they now find

communicating with each other

easier and clearer. It removed

the stigma of remaining silent

through not understanding

Allan Due Overbeck,

Head of Operations,

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Knowledge at your fingertips. The

huge touch screens give technical

team leader Enno Sander an up to

the minute report on what is going

on 60 kms away

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as technical team leader Enno

Sander pointed out. Like Kent he

is new to Dong Energy.

‘What I learned is that I’m not an

expert and what you don’t know

you ask about and if you still

don’t know then you ask again

and again until you know. In the

beginning of anything new you

get a lot of information, so it is

normal to forget. Now I dare to

ask,’ says Enno.

Being a new employee in a new

building in a relatively new

industry the opportunities are

enormous. But so too are the

chances of adopting a practice

which is counterproductive,

as Kent put it, ‘if you get an

assignment, the end result is

easier if you set off with the right

end result firmly in focus.’

SUSPICIOUS MINDSThe major obstacle to creating a

focused team is in the old ‘them

and us’ syndrome.

Allan explained, ‘It’s a slow

steady journey – five years ago

the technicians got laptops

and phones, some covered up

the camera with tape, due to a

suspicion towards "them”. It is

a slow route but I want to get to

a dynamic organisation where

everyone performs the best and

that when they say something,

they understand it in a nice way.

The technicians need to know that

they are the experts, they are

the ones with the ball and they

need to roll with it. They need to

know who they are and how to

interact with each other. The goal

is to eliminate us and them and

replace it with one team.’

‘With Dong Energy we want to be

the best operator of wind turbine

generators in the world, that’s our

goal,’ Allan concluded. ●

Supplies at your fingertips. Warehouseman

Kent Jensen (right) has a place for everything

and everything in its place

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The night of July 6, 1988 is scared into the memories of oilmen. The explosion and subsequent destruction of Piper Alpha claimed 167 lives and sent a wave of realization and horror through the industry and beyond.

One person who had a

front seat as the disaster

unfolded was Ken Chapman.

Then, just 29 years old, he found

himself as second in command

of the coordination team at the

Aberdeen Coastguard station

that became the land base for the

rescue operation.

‘Lots that didn’t come out in the

enquiry made us think about Yes sir that’s my baby! The design that started on a cigarette packet is now Ken’s daily workplace

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New Day, New Horizon

how we did things. The enquiry

thought we did very well, which

we did, but there were a lot of

nightmares in the background.

All those 167 guys lost, you are

always asking could you have

done more? I lived with that for a

number of years, as did the other

guys involved,’ Ken recalls vividly,

even after nearly 27 years.

TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCEIt was a bad year, just 78 days

later Ken was also on duty when

a blowout on the Ocean Odyssey

claimed another life. What he felt

most disturbing was being in the

centre of something where you

feel you are helpless, the facts

have already happened and they

just slowly appeared on the wall.

‘We didn’t get any counseling

or anything like that. The Royal

Navy officer’s attitude at the time

was “ah well we are men we can

handle that,” where in actual fact

I learned much later afterwards

that actually I was suffering from

post traumatic stress and it was

something that made me think,

typical North Sea, Merchant Navy

attitude, post traumatic stress

what’s all that guff? But it was in

actually identifying it that helped

me move on from it.’

Ken moved on to a career in

offshore drilling. He’d previously

been offshore, initially as a

mariner on supply and anchor

handlers but then curiosity

got the better of him and he

wondered ‘what do those guys do

up there on the rigs?’ Now back

he went through a succession of

roles worldwide before the found

the one area that he believes to

this day can fill that gap where

you feel helpless, training.

‘When I see disasters today, like

Air Asia, the Malaysia Air, it chills

me, but I immediately think of

the search and rescue and how

they go about making the best of

the situation for everyone. The

incident has happened, you can’t

change that, you’ve got to move

on from it. I realize that from my

point of view my best contribution

is through training. I can’t change

the regime the leadership, but

I can change the people. I don’t

think you do this by lecturing,

but by facilitating the amount

of knowledge that is in that

classroom.’

DOODLE TO REALITYHe talks about training the way

some men talk about fishing

and football, with a passion.

One conversation 13 years ago

resulted in some doodling on the

back of a cigarette packet, and

the concept for an all-embracing

simulator was conceived.

‘We took it, the idea not the

cigarette packet, to Houston

where they gave us a million

dollars to build it,’ he recalls.

That was 13 years ago and ‘the

big white box’, as he calls it,

now has a relatively new home,

nestled into what became Maersk

Training in Kingswells, Aberdeen

in January.

‘It’s been in constant use for a

decade, yet I still don’t think it

has reached its full potential. At

Maersk Training I see you, or

should I say we, doing something

that I wanted to happen years

ago. I’m 56 now and I see it as the

one big challenge I’d like to crack.’

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Thinking outside the box, Ken and the simulator’s hydraulic mechanism

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The excitement and trepidation of moving to a new job is something most of us only experience a few times in our lives. For Leanne Stewart, her new move means, fresh opportunities, but the same car parking space, same building, almost same desk. And she’s still very excited.

In week one many of her

contacts and colleagues also

remain the same; outside in the

car park it was all change. Two

men with a cherry-picker were

busy taking down the sign they’d

put up twelve months earlier.

Soon they’d be back to put up a

new sign which signifies to all a

new start for the training complex

at Kingswells just nine kilometres

west of Aberdeen city centre.

But for Leanne the change is not

total, a new email address, but

she brings to her new desk much

of what she had on her old one,

it is just her role that is a little

different.

As the guys put the metal letters

that spelt Transocean to one side

she reflected on what her six

years with the offshore drilling

company had been like and what

lay ahead in her new role as

Business Support Manager.

SAME BUT DIFFERENTIn January Transocean entered

into a major cooperation with

Maersk Training which makes

the Danish-based company

responsible for administration of

all and delivery of certain training

for Transocean’s offshore crew

for a period of at least five years.

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In recent years American-owned,

Swiss-based Transocean had

established centres in Texas,

Malaysia, Brazil, as well as

establishing a hub at Aberdeen.

Oil is a global business and

the cooperation meets Maersk

Training’s desire to be where the

action is.

In some cases the acquisition

of the new centres duplicates

Maersk Training’s already global

portfolio, but Leanne outlined

where the differences lie.

‘It’s difficult for me to switch off

my Transocean mind because I

spent six years there and they are

very much a part of my new job,

but not the whole part,’ she says.

‘Last month we were responsible

for the career training for

Transocean’s rig crews, 24/7. That

responsibility of making sure that

everyone gets what they need in

order to do the job remains, but

you can add to that as Maersk

Training we open the door to

all companies. Where we are

physically placed, in the middle of

a business park which is a mini oil

city, we can hope to attract a wide

customer base.’

PLACE TO BEFrom her window she can

already see the offices of Premier

Oil and Apache, and of course

Transocean. ‘It is a great site.

It’ll be great to see it filling up,

full occupancy and an energy

developing. The plan is four or five

phases of development and we

are right in the middle. We hear

that other sites have been bought

up by companies like Statoil – this

is the place to be.’

In week one the change was

presenting a few extra technical

challenges. ‘There’s no really

good time to do this in terms of

getting everybody on to the same

page, customers, colleagues and

suppliers, but it is nice with the

New Year, a clean break. For

example we’re taking on double

the workload because a third

party, who looked after some of

Transocean’s training, isn’t on

board this venture,’ she adds.

On a personal career basis you

sense that Leanne is in the right

place at the right time, but that

being with Maersk Training

might just open even greater

opportunities. ‘I’m a huge believer

in what training does for the

individual and company and

that’s my new company’s main

aim. I like being on the operational

side and with a global trainer

who knows what possibilities lie

ahead.’

She looked outside her expansive

office window, the two men in

the cherry-picker were hard at

work, it was time to nip outside

and see for herself a purely

physical aspect of the Transocean

transition. ●

Name changing

A new day dawns at Kingswells

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51Shades of Grey

It’s never had quite the same appeal as Monte

Carlo or Rio de Janeiro, and in a strange way

much of it is its own fault. When you market

yourself as ‘the granite city’ the uptake in travel

tickets is bound to be patchy at best. On most

winter days the weather forecaster mentions not so much if the possibility

of rain, but when. Having said that, through it all

Aberdeen basks in its greyness.

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51 Shades of Grey

The roads, the walls, the

buildings, the sky, they

generate a colour spectacle which

truly is 51 shades of grey. If dogs

can only see things in black and

white, Aberdonian dogs in no way

feel deprived.

Aberdeen is a strong city. The

granite that is its birthstone is so

sturdy that, whilst other places

used wood and brick to struggle

into existence on two levels,

much of the city centre is four or

five stories high. What this did

was to create narrow canyons

where the locals were protected

from the winds of the North Sea,

but at the cost of sunlight. Even

on a bright sunny day, some part

of nearly every street will cast an

even darker grey.

It’s a city littered with wonderful

sounding street names,

Correction Wynd, Back Passage

Wynd and Silver Street, which

leads into Golden Square - at

last a hint of colour. But there is

colour in plenty, not like brash

Rio or Monte where it’s on the

outside to entice you in, Aberdeen,

covers itself up and reveals itself

only to snoopers and the daring.

Aberdeen rewards the inquisitive.

RED, BLACK AND PEWIf you had to chose one street to

make a point about what’s inside

the city, it would be Belmont.

Leading northwards off the long

and broad Union Street, the

city’s spine, it is a symbol of the

transformation that Aberdeen

has undergone in the past twenty

years.

Six churches are dotted along its

210 metre length, but long gone

are the prayers and hymn books

that caused joyous praise to

stream from their doors. Four are

bars, one a clothes shop and the

final a Mexican restaurant. Once

a week people do gather to pray in

Belmont Street, but they have to

hire the cinema to do it.

Back on Union Street, beneath

another towering spire roulette

wheels spin and cards are

turned – and, as if to squeeze the

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last drop out of the cup of irony,

they’ve called the place Soul.

Where the congregation bowed

their heads, hogs feet and beers

are now served. How many a

dry-mouthed parishioner must be

spinning, but not hoping for black

or red, even or odd.

A TALE OF TWO CITIESIt’s a city with mild schizophrenia.

A faded fishing mecca, born

again bigtime by oil. A business

city where the mood and prices

change after Friday lunch when

the last executive checks out,

until he returns on Monday.

‘We sell it as a weekend city,’

explains Peter Medley, the man

whose job it is to fill the beds

vacated by the oil industry,

‘during the week our hotels are

London-high expensive, but on

Friday we become the cheapest

weekend break in Scotland.’

How the current oil situation

will affect the city remains to

be seen. It is the oil people who

have pushed the cost of living up

and often out of the reach of the

normal Aberdonian.

ABERDEARThe Rox Hotel, smack in the

centre, sums up much about the

city. From the outside it is grey

and dull, totally passable, from

the inside it is a luxurious joy. Yet

it still confuses. Refurbished with

37 bedrooms, there were only

eight names on the breakfast list

and not once in three days did I

meet someone in the lift. Would

the lift up be empty if the prices

went down?

Just down from the Rox in Market

Street lies a traditional fish and

chip shop. Perhaps too far away

from the homes of any native

Aberdonian and too economical

for an oil visitor, it was dinnertime

Tuesday, and it was closed. Round

the corner stood another former

chapel, which had also seen life

as, of all things, a banana ripening

room. A nice, but small, steak,

a single bottle of beer and a tip,

totally £38; killing hunger can be

expensive in downtown Aberdeen.

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Sleeping and eating out are not

the only examples of Aberdear.

When driving you know you

are approaching the city when

single and then double yellow

lines start appearing on the road.

The tight streets, which make

Aberdeen so interesting, bite

back when you want to park the

car. It’s enough to force you into

a taxi, once. They are the final

black mark. Expensive, they have

achieved notoriety beyond their

driving range for being, in a word,

ungracious.

HOOKEDSo how do you sell it? Peter, an

Englishman singing the praises

of Scotland, was about to head off

to Oslo. Those oil rich Norwegians

know a bargain when they see

one.

‘As soon as we’ve got the people

here, we have won the battle

because they love it so much they

want to come back. Aberdeen is

not the place to come into to go

straight to a hotel complex and

visit an industrial park, you’ve

got to come into the centre to

experience what it is really like,’

says Peter.

Peter then immediately tries to

get me out of the city altogether,

‘We’ve 70 golf courses, 30 within

a half our drive, and then in

the summer we’ve a stunning

coastline with interesting little

villages.’

But he’s not going to succeed;

there are too many doors to open

in too many interesting streets

and alleys. It’s a city built on a

hill so it has two levels, both

interesting. The city’s motto has

French overtones, Bon Accord,

but in the local vernacular it is

simply a warm request for you to

return, ‘haste ye back.’

No worries. ●

Ten things you may not know about Aberdeen.

• There are 34 places called

Aberdeen in the world

• With 48 bells, St Nicholas

kirk has the largest carillon

in Britain

• Aberdeen is Scotland’s least

religious city

• If you towed Aberdeen

due east it would land in

Denmark just north of

Aalborg

• It would then be Denmark’s

third largest city

• Aberdeen Harbour Board

is Britain’s oldest business,

established in 1136

• The self-seal envelope was

developed in the city

• Water polo was first played

in 1863 in the River Dee

• Aberdeen has won the

Britain in Bloom a record ten

times

• Aberdeen’s granite can

sparkle like silver due to its

high mica content

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The Duke of Hazzard

Duke is one of the newest employees at Svitzer. He’s been around for about a year, popular, outgoing and they love him, but he has yet to get a pay packet or day off. He’s been a huge success in his role, credited with helping to dramatically reduce the number of accidents and hours lost by incidents.

It’s enough to bring a tear to a

HSEQ man’s eye, but Duke can’t

cry unless a graphic artist wants

him to, he’s a cartoon character.

Since a fatal disaster on board a

tug off Qatar on April 29, 2012,

Svitzer have actively pursued an

open-faced safety policy and Duke,

as a cartoon character, has been

the front man for the most current

campaign. He ‘stars’ in a series of

on screen accidents which owe

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The screen saver, life saver

The Duke of Hazzard

their inspiration to accidents that

seem so simply stupid that many

automatically think ‘that could

never happen’. But the truth is

they did. The results of the safety

focus campaign are impressive……

from 91 incidents to 69 and then

for 2014, virtually halved to 35.

Although Duke is a seafarer,

other cartoon characters like

an executive, recognize the fact

that safety is a company-wide

issue, from galley to office. It’s

a high profile campaign, a huge

banner ‘Everyday a Safe Day,’

stretches across the foyer that is

the hub of their dockside offices

in Copenhagen. Across the globe

Duke pops us as a screen saver.

‘It’s been a communications

exercise in creating behavioral

change,’ explains Jens Viby

Mogensen, Head of Branding,

‘Duke first appeared as a teaser in

the weeks leading up to our Safety

Day and his appeal is that he

comes across independent of job

function or cultural background.

What he does and how he does

it is clear to everyone, no matter

where they come from.’

THE MR BEAN OF SAFETYRather like the Mr Bean cartoon

series which was invented to be

international by recreating the

silent movie, the videos purposely

cross cultures. Out of the videos

grew an app game. Built on an

existing game frame to keep costs

down, it was a smash hit, even

beyond the Svitzer employees.

The target was 5,000, but already

6,300 are hooked.

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The company safety day was born

out of tragedy, the death of seven

crewmembers, but their sacrifice

has stirred a global awareness. In

2013 and 2014 April 29th was set

aside to push the safety agenda

further and make all employees

take the time to discuss safety.

A campaign was launched that

would run for the next year, and

beyond. ‘We gave all vessels,

workshops, warehouses and

offices their freedom to express

it in their own ways. We guided

them and gave them tools, T

shirts and the like, but let them

decide themselves how to best

utilize the time and tools. This

empowerment rather than

dictating meant that we were not

in 100% control but the strong

employee involvement meant

that we achieved a much stronger

result.’ explains Jens.

Previously the annual campaign

gave empowerment to every

member of staff allowing them

to call a stop to any action which

they thought might be hazardous.

That call had to be respected

without question. On one occasion

a container ship’s departure in

thick fog was disrupted because

the tug used the stop card option.

The respect for safety is helping

Svitzer gain a greater reputation

in the industry.

In fact the Safety Day has gone

beyond the confines of Svitzer and

has been adopted by the mother

company. So this year all staff in

the Maersk Group will respond

to an awareness campaign, not

on the 29th, but a day earlier. A

tragedy turned to the good. ●

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It’s difficult to find a company these days that doesn’t oil the wheels of operation through a mission statement and proclaiming values. Maersk’s establishing value is Constant Care, and it has

been a guiding beacon for all this century. However it is relatively novel when you meet someone like Eunice Cariry. She’s been constantly caring since 1968.

Eunice is now in her mid-

seventies but for something

approaching half a century she’s

put the plight of the excluded

of the excluded as her goal in

life. These people are the native

Brazilians who have such mental

or physical problems that their

families and communities cannot

cope. In Casa de Indio, they find

prolonged care or temporary

refuge.

Caso do Constant Care

Eunice Cariry surrounded by left to

right, Cristiane, Leandro with dog,

and Clara Oliveira and Eduardo

Silva from Maersk Training in

Brazil

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Caso do Constant Care

The Rio de Janeiro home she

helped set up and run, is a place of

hope for about 24 native Indians

whose tribe cannot look after

them.

‘We heard about it from a friend

of a friend,’ explains Fernando

Araujo Miguel who along with

some others from Maersk

Training visited the home. ‘At first

they were very suspicious, they

ran away, but after a while we

gained their confidence and they

took us round their home.’

FOR THOSE WITH 4 LEGSThe house survives with

donations and the help of people

and companies that dedicate

their time and resources to help

the disabled. The building is

very humble, there is not much

comfort, and the residents who

are able to help, assist Eunice

in keeping the place clean and

organized. But through it all, it is

not just a refuge, it is a home.

And not just for the natives.

Eunice also takes in the stray

dogs she finds living on the

streets around the house, giving

them food and shelter. The bark

of the dogs can be heard from

the entrance of the house, but

the human guest don’t mind, as

Eunice says the dogs help protect

the house and its occupants.

The trio of visitors from Maersk

Training brought some supplies,

groceries and basics with them.

They were drawn to the place

by the values it quietly holds.

Through it all they saw Eunice as

heroic, since many of the natives

would probably face death living

with their original tribes because

of their mental disabilities. She

bears the burden without waiting

for rewards or media recognition,

and with her strong personality

has even been able to bring

several important personalities,

like actors and politicians, to help

with the cause. She says she helps

the excluded within the excluded,

since native Brazilians already

face social discrimination in

today’s society. ●

Hope and faith are mixed with a few other keepsakes

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On a night out to celebrate successfully completing a medical course, three young men were on the spot to deliver emergency first aid to a woman who was suffering an epileptic seizure on Newcastle’s Quayside.

Only hours after the three

wind turbine technicians

had been in the classrooms of

Maersk Training, their new skills

were called into action. Their

prompt response when they saw

a woman suddenly fall to the

ground probably saved her from

greater discomfort and distress.

She had struck her head on the

concrete.

Walking in the rain, Wayne

Leckonby saw the woman fall and

along with Mark Lloyd and Chris

Smith they ran to her aid. She was

greatly distressed and the trio,

recognising that it had been an

epileptic fit, made sure that she

was comfortable and protected

from doing herself any further

physical damage. A bus driver

phoned for an ambulance.

As Wayne explained, ‘The lady

was very cold as it was pouring

with rain and, as you can imagine,

she was panicking, so we did

our best to keep her calm. We

informed the paramedics that,

as offshore technicians, we are

advanced rescue trained so we

helped to place the lady onto a

spinal board so that she had rigid

support during the movement

into the ambulance.’

The trio had just completed a two-

day course which give them their

GWO First Aid certificates.

FRESH AID“It was lucky that we had the

information fresh in our minds

following the First Aid training.

If you don’t have the correct

knowledge you could end up

harming the injured person by

moving them too much. It can also

be scary for an untrained person

to witness and you can’t become

panicked yourself as you need

to keep the person very calm,’

Wayne added.

For the lady she was lucky that

the quick thinking trio were

on hand, but that is not always

the case in the offshore world.

‘The training we provide is very

advanced as offshore workers

can often have to wait longer

than recommended, after all an

ambulance is not just round the

corner when you are working

offshore,’ says Victoria Redhead,

who was the trio’s instructor. ●

Wayne Leckonby, first responder

Very First Responders

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January 2015

Dear Diary,

Been here six weeks now. The first week was a bit difficult

because I couldn’t grasp the Scottish accent, but I think now I’m

getting most of it. The Scots use a lot of Old Norse words and you

can see it in the street names, the kirks and here in Aberdeen

I’m told they use quine for girl which sounds like the Danish

kvinde for woman.

I don’t know what I expected when the office said,’ Karoline,

it’s Aberdeen for you, . . . if you’d like.’ I always wanted to go

somewhere and experience things before starting university, but

never thought of here. In fact I had to go and look it up to find

out exactly where it was.

It’s not as exotic as Rio or Houston, but I like the place and the

people, they are all very welcoming and polite.

Before I got here I heard it called grey. I thought that was just

the weather, but it really is the Granite City. Can’t imagine

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what it would have been like at Halloween, some parts of it

are perfect, there’s even a graveyard right in the middle of the

main street. But through it all it’s nice and the older buildings

are quite charming and I like the idea about turning churches

into pubs. I say grey and it does rain, but then the sun comes

out and wow! Click click click with my phone – note: must

remember my camera next time.

I looked forward to having some time on my own, but you can

have too much of that. I’m here for six months and hopefully

I’ ll soon find a flat. Staying in a hotel can be a bit lonely, I could

never be a traveling sales rep. Sitting alone at dinner and the

staff all know me and ask ‘so you’re still here? ’ And yes, I am…

Already I’ve been to a few other cities, but am very much

looking forward to exploring the rest of Scotland at the

weekends. Getting over to the west coast is a major goal, but

there are a lot of mountains in the way. That reminds me,

maybe skiing will come first.

We’re going on a journey. According to Albert Einstein's famous equation, E = mc², time travel is possible, at least in one direction, forward. Going the other

way — back to the past — presents a trickier challenge. It’s not for me to question one of the greatest brains of all time, but I beg to differ. Going back is easy.

Einstein’s theory of relativity

is that time and space are

joined in our universe as a four-

dimensional fabric known as

space-time. Add to that the

concept that space and time warp

as mass or speed increase and . . . .

and you’ve totally lost me.

Enter a black circular disc where

the bottom and top perform the

same function, but are different,

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2000 Light Years From Home

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and I’m back on board the time

machine. To function effectively

the black disc has to rotate at

precise speed on something called

a turntable.

In this digital age, for those who

can remember, vinyl is memory

jogger, transporting you back to a

time when life was not dominated

by risk assessment forms and

totally controlled by a thing

which used to be just a phone, but

is now a life-style support tool. A

recent study showed that using

the phone to talk to someone is

now #6 in its list of uses.

ROSKILDE FESTIVAL IN DENMARKThis time travel trip was triggered

by an impulse Christmas

purchase, the triple album set,

Rolling Stones Live in LA 1975.

The Stones headlined this year’s

Roskilde festival and somewhere

in the crowd was my 17 year-old

son.

He left his tent, his beer trolley,

much of his clothing behind,

but what he took away was a

new appreciation that being a

septuagenarian was not the end

of life as we know it. Jagger in

his 70’s, but what was he like at

his best? Perhaps vinyl had the

answer.

Today you can spend more on

noise cancelling earphones that

put you into a pure world than

people spent on stereo systems

in the past. They create a world of

sound so clean that all you hear

is what went on at that moment

in time in the recording studio.

Connect the headphones to your

smartphone and listen to music

sources like iTunes or Spotify

and you have a clean music

experience as endless as space

itself.

You’ve been very patient, but this

is where time travel comes in. To

play the disc we had to invest in a

turntable, but the joy of observing

today’s teenager tangle with

my youth was true time travel,

I was transported back to 1967.

He of the digital age, was not just

tolerating the analogue era, but

embracing it. Why?

It was nothing to do with sound

quality as some vinyl addicts will

insist, but to do with contact.

Normally he’d click onto Spotify,

select the type of music he likes

and then press play. Hours of

streaming potentially follow

– after the first few songs it

dissolves into background music.

With the ‘platter’ you only get a

handful of songs before you are

reconnected with the need to

make a decision about what you

want to listen too. It’s that simple.

In 1996 I had a similar journey.

I walked into a recording studio

in Clovis, New Mexico. Nearly 40

years earlier Buddy Holly had

been in the same room, but now it

was mothballed. A few old demo

discs were lying in a cupboard

and we played one, a rejected

version of Holly singing ‘Every

Day’, the guy beside me was there

at the time. He said, talking about

the studio owner and producer,

‘it’s like Norman has just gone out

for a cup of coffee and not come

back. He broke down and cried;

he’d travelled back in time.

What about time travel going into

the future? That’s easy. I bought

a packet of Triple A batteries the

other day. Nearly unbelievably,

they are guaranteed to work

in twenty years. Cleverly the

wording on the package does not

promise twenty years of use, just

that should you need them in

2035, they will work.

So I know that I can put them

in a draw, with the receipt (it is

a guarantee after all), and that

my son’s 17 year-old son, if he

has one, can put them into the

handset and then press play. The

arm of the turntable will rise and

move to the LP and Jagger will

blast out ‘2000 Light Years From

Home’.

Mr Einstein, time travel is

possible.

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the most socially isolated person on planet earth? >

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captaining a floating town >

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Hello GoodbyeWhat’s that...? >Moustache Or Madness? >Runway to Slipway >Lady in Black > RIGMAROLE* you don’t need >Rolling Back the Years >Floating Like Butterflies Stinging Like Bees >SCOTS land on MARS >Umbrella Fella >Sund of Silence >Friendly Fred & Frugal Friend >

MARITIME• 1 DP Sea Time Reduction • 1 Vetting for supply • 2 Towmaster course • 6 West Africans payback time • 10 Ice breaking through world

short-cut • 11 Captaining a hotel • 12 Bridge and engine room in

sync • 12 A new look at mooring • 14 What MLC 2006 means • 15 All Fired Up – a very real

computer game • 16 Ngoc’s Fourth Bar • 16 838 Days – Søren’s days in

pirate captivity • 19 Sund of Silence – a farewell

ferry story

O&G• 6 Semi-sub crew handling

anchors • 6 Mud course • 9 The $15million phone call • 11 Macondo – a lesson unlearnt?

• 12 North Sea, experts look to bright future

• 14 Brazil’s oil and gender revolution

• 15 Gulf Lessons – performance enhancement

• 15 What is Performance Enhancement?

• 19 Rolling Back the Years – a group of very special drillers celebrate

• 19 Lady in Black – Anna takes us on a journey into the world of MPD

WIND POWER• 12 The father of wind power • 12 A2Sea’s new windcarrier• 12 Olsen team get specific

training • 13 Training at heights for lady

with no vertigo • 14 Blade Runners, the new high

level repairmen • 17 Carload of Hopes: the heights

some people will go to for a job• 18 Career Climber – Jonny

benefits from his car-eer gamble • 18 Bonus Points – we take a tour

of Siemens training facilities in Jutland

CRANE• 3 CraneSim in Vietnam• 4 Rig crane in a box• 7 Rig crane simulator tested• 13 APMT’s management

improvement programme • 15 Slinging in the sunshine

SAFETY• 4 Container industry in big safety

push • 7 Chinese container crews show

huge progress

MISCELLANEOUS• 3 Piracy through the ages• 8 Titanic edition looks at

progress since 1912 • 9 Turning a course into a family

holiday • 10 Loneliness, the problem of

isolation • 11 Underwater rugby, combating

stress • 13 Piracy and the cross - the roll

today of the seamen’s mission • 14 The Story of Ngoc – a

remarkable tale of resilience and good fortune

• 14 Eat meet and leave – the messages in our diet

• 15 Puffed – Hawaii’s Ironmen • 15 Michael Bang-From defusing

to enlightening • 15 The story of the world beating

blue boat • 16 Colony of Hope, meeting

India’s stigmatised community • 17 Marstal – port of passion and

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Don’t blame the cook >Eat meet and leave >

Triple E = 3M’s >Brazil’s oil and gender revolution >Funny Tummy

So what is the MLC 2006 all about? >Food for Thought >Blade Runners >

Playing the name game >

The Story of Ngoc



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Gulf Lessons >Keep taking the tablets > What exactly is Performance Enhancement? >When BP means Better Prepared > Nintendo boys, game on >Puffed, but the magic drags on >No bang Bang >Girls Out Loud >Every Boat Tells a Story >Science - stronger than steel >All fired up >Space, the final frontier >

performance enhancement

Piracy – Søren’s Somali Story

Ngoc's Fourth Bar >Colony of hope >

Farewell Favela, So Long Shanty >Starbuster >

All Sorts Have One Aim >Knowledge Seekers >

Helsingborg to Prague, via Svendborg >Surely not >



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Carload of Hopes >Revolving door >

Caught Flagging >Logomotions >

Hard Drive for Soft Skills >Perfect Pressure Performance >

Marstal - port of passion and ferry tales >Rockall - All Rock or Oil Rock? >

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The Great Bag of China- what's the secret of good branding?

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