Great. Love the honesty and truthfulness. Shame this situations are present in all kinds of sectors.

It may be your last trip but you'll always be remembered. Enjoy your new endeavors. The sea never leaves you.

Hi Graham, this is Alan Nicholls ex chief engineer with with North Star. I was 47 years at sea the last 33 with NS. I am sure our paths crossed but I cannot remember where or when. I remember your skipper Donald was with me on the Grampian Supporter many years ago, he was only a coxswain then. I retired a couple of years ago , hope you enjoy your retirement. I will assume you got the same as me off NS on your retirement after 30 odd years sweet f..k all. Que sera. All the best, Alan.

I was a helicopter pilot on the North Sea from 1985-1999. The pay problem was the same then. Shell; “you can have a contract extension, but for 10% less than the last one” We all voted with our feet, eventually the pilots went on strike, the pay went up, but the oil companies still pushed limits, safety and financial. I don’t miss off-shore, the oil companies were disgraceful and it sounds like they’ve never changed.

Dear Graeme, thank you so much for all your fantastic videos, you brought to us all over the last years! 'Will miss you and all your crew comrads... and I wish you a great time in future, stay healthy... I've also joined your Trinity Farm Project channel...also very interesting! But: ... Albert is missing there!☝️😁 All my best wishes to you!!! - HP/Cologne -

I’ll really gonna miss these vids, brilliant ❤

It was a pleasure sailing with you mate, enjoy naval retirement pal, you earned it

I so enjoyed your videos recording your experiences at sea with your crew mates. Of all that I watch, I will miss these the most and wish you many days of firm ground and happy times in the sunshine. Your friend whom you never met in person from the states, Don.

I served on board the USS America with VF-33 fighter squadron. Hard work but I do miss those sunsets as well. The best I’ve ever seen at sea. Even though I served on an aircraft carrier I still had a fear of the open sea. Just the enormity of it and those swells.

МОРЯКИ -- ВСЕ!!! ЭТО МУЖЕСТВЕННЫЕ ЛЮДИ!!!! УВАЖЕНИЕ, И ВОСХИЩЕНИЕ ВАМИ!!! ПУСТЬ ГОСПОДЬ ВСЕГДА СОПРОВОЖДАЕТ ВАС, И ОЗАРЯЕТ ВАС, СВОИМ СВЕТОМ!!!!❤❤❤

Salute and bless Skipper and crew Godbless you all and your families

Hello mate, just wanted to say from a current deck cadet that I really enjoy your videos and they provide a really valuable insight in to all the ups and downs of a career at sea - all the best in your future endeavours

Sad to see you leave the sea…..it was wonderful following ….to us an adventure….to you a hard bloody job, again, many thanks Graham ……. Glad to see you telling it straight, on your last trip, and saying how you felt 👍👌🇮🇲💪. Ps it’s not like the inspectors for the tick box exercises can’t see the bloody conditions you are in…..you bloody filmed it for us all to see…..madness mate , pure madness, ! You’re better off at Trinity Farm….it’s a world away, and no damn boxes to tick…..😂😂😂👍👍👍

Even though I know it is a sturdy and safe ship, I love to hear the creaking as it takes on the waves. I could sleep through it. Happy Trails, Graeme!

Good luck to you don’t blame you for getting out. Pretty much how I felt in 85 deep sea. As a shore tech for 30 years no problems with ships, crews or jobs. Management! Never understood how we made a profit with the upper decisions. In your case doing what you do it is bloody dangerous. Very sad.

Thank you Bigwavemaster for all of your videos - you will be missed - i will join you on Trinity Farm to keep up with you shore based antics - 😂❤

Thank you for taking us along on all these trips and sharing your job and life style with us. It will be good to relax but it will be hard to get the sea out of your vains.. I grew up on the water and made a living on it for the first 20 yrs of my life. Now being just over 50 I do miss it more and more . Iam sure I will end up back in the water sooner than latter.

With the working conditions taking the turn you mentioned, your retirement from seamanship may come at the exact right moment. …and on a farm there's always enough room for a shed to house your own boat, right? 😊

Sir, I love, love, love your videos! Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with us. Enjoy yourself in retirement… you have definitely earned it. Cheers

People don't realise how bad the pay rates are for the hours worked in sometimes dangerous conditions, sad day when everyone went non-fed 😢

I remember the first time you guys commented back and told me a bit about yourselves. Sorry to see you go❤

Bon Voyage fella, you will still be dusting salt of those shoulders for years to come - Kia kaha

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

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I love your series.

I enjoyed your uploads mate!

Good luck to you there, I'm down here in the gulf running a supply boat, at 58, I'm done with this shit.

I thought all seamen had to be in the union.

We need the French to show us British how to complain , happy retirement ☺🇬🇧

Really miss your post's. Cheers Mate and following seas...

Onja Capt. Enjoy your life ashore, its going to be difficult, the oil patch aint what it used to be since co vid

Not paying the Staff properly who are out there in dangerous storms is just CRAZY. So the experienced people are leaving. That's a real shame.

"Working at home... " Even if you believe in viruses, you should know at sea is the best place to be, healthwise.

Yes, much braver then i! All my life ive had nightmares of being on a sinking ship....sometimes a big ship, sometimes small but nun the less 🤷 its kept me out of the deep end, i think i would have a heart attack lol i have a kayak that im learning to stay calm on the water, even in a lake its hard, heck pools even scare me, even though i had all the lessons and learned well....still terrifying. That sunrise though 😧....being as brave as you lot!? Its all for you guys 💚🌅

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Gosh I’m getting motion sick just looking at the video couldn’t imagine being on that ship lol

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Good Video Pal Robbie Irwin Cups Mate

Pozdrowienia ze Szczecina - Polska. Jesteście wesołymi chłopakami, na tle zmarszczonego morza. Hej !!!.Jestem z branży - elektromechanik okrętowy, na emeryturze. W mojej młodości nie uczyli nas angielskiego. A póżniej ? stary łeb, nie kojarzył języków, w stopniu pisania.

All braver humans then i!

Mantab pak, semangat👍

Sir enjoy your retirement (change of profession). You deserve it. I have about six years to go.

Love you sir. From ⚓ boy of indian🇮🇳 navy ⚓.

Wow

Chuck anchor! And go on strike!...

Cooking in those conditions...Made me giddy just looking at it.. Pay up, bosses! would YOU want to do this job??

I’m sure there is a law against you striking as in ship strike. I know in the trucking industry in the USA they wrote laws in the late 70s to keep truck drivers and truck owners from shutting down completely 🤬🤬

Hello Graham - I have been watching these from the beginning, and have found them to be an excellent view into the life of those in our profession (ie, ERRV personnel), and I take my hat off to you for all of your endeavors to bring your crew's experiences to the notice of a much wider audience. However, with regard to the Remote Assessments, I would just like to put our side (ie, that of a training provider) to you so that you can appreciate a different perspective on the situation. Although I do not assess crew for your company (North Star) operating out of Aberdeen, I do work for a training provider in the Southern Sector of the North Sea, and have done so for the last 20 years, with (up until Covid) the job of working on each vessel on location and transferring at sea to the next, which I very much enjoyed doing. However, Covid changed how we had to do things, and we had to begin working in another way to keep the crew's certification up to date. That new way are the 'Remote Assessments', and whilst I fully understand (from the perspective of having been at sea all of my working life) the difficulties this has created (not just for you, but for ourselves as well) I would also like to assure you that we aren't just continuing with these just because we are lazy or that we just like doing it this way. What we began was a necessity, born of a global situation in which we had lockdowns and the like, and we knew that moving vessel to vessel would be a major risk for infection for both you and ourselves, and that the clients also said 'no' to it as well. Now we are 3 years into the Pandemic, which has not simply 'gone away'. All medical authorities acknowledge that, while the risks have lessened due to mass vaccination etc, there are still risks involved. Covid is still there, and is a major factor in our decisions, as you stay on one vessel for each trip, where we move from vessel to vessel, and we can assess as many as 5 or even 6 vessels in a 2 week period (which was our usual length of trip), with also associated transfers on vessels to get us where we need to be. Even doing assessments in dock carries the same risk, as again several vessels can be captured even in one day in somewhere like Aberdeen. This has recently been driven home for me, as a few weeks ago I came down with the virus for the 1st time (despite all my best efforts). Even though I have had all the boosters, I was still very ill with it for over a week or so. Just before that, however, for 2 days I tested negative, and only tested positive on the third day. Take that and put me on a ship, and then transferring using another vessel to get to my next one, and I could have over the course of 3 days, infected 3 ships. Fair to you guys? An acceptable risk, even given that we have no way of knowing how each individual will be affected by this virus? We believe that this is not acceptable as a risk either to your or to ourselves (after all, we have families too, some of whom may be vulnerable). Therefore, for the present time, this is why training providers have decided to carry this on. We very much appreciate the difficulties with weather, schedules etc, and it should be that, at least in the case of certs which are very much weather dependent such as boat tickets, a good amount of time should be given between assessments being requested and the actual expiry dates of the certs involved to allow for these factors. Also, believe it or not, this method has thrown up more difficulties for us that the way we were doing it, including the generating of more paperwork, but that at the moment is the way of the world. And, although it may seem pointless to you filming the C/Eng at his post, in Opito's eyes you are providing evidence of him acting in his role onboard, which is a part of the Rescue / Care cert! Please do not think this is to knock you in any way, just to explain how we are approaching this issue. What your contractors do is down to them, but we have a duty to you and to ourselves, and I hope that the above goes some way to show our perspective. In closing, may I wish you all the best of luck in your next job, and that I shall miss seeing your videos. All best, and may the wind be ever at your back 😀

Uncle your ship name.

Who does ONE move Sun rise in East to Sun Shine in West ? . Can Statues of Primitive Religions do it ? . If The Statues of Old Religions couldnot did it . Why did they pray to it ? . Who are you .. Sailors ? . I see you like Euro Humans ? . God just was Alexandre The Great God ( Al Kahf 83 - 99 ) . Thank you .

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