You're welcome, as always :)

Just seeing themselves on the screen and reading the comments is rewarding enough 😊

Bigwavemaster1 lol

We have had two trips of remarkably good weather. No doubt we will pay for it this winter??

Looking forward to that episode :)

I would like to say that I'm looking forward to filming it but not so sure :( :(

I was just thinking... If I was at sea for a month I would have more than 13:28 minutes of video...

I film countless hours every trip. I then have to whittle it all down to interesting size bites that depicts what has happened that month. Make each clip too long and people loose interest.

It was a very busy day. It was the same day that we struggled to get that big lump of net on board. Only a few seconds on my video but it actually took us most of the day!!

Thanks Chris :)

Hello captcroft, thanks for the view and compliments. I've made a video of every trip for the last three years and always try to include other vessels in the area as a point of interest. Yes, this was filmed on board the Contender. Would it be you I spoke to on the radio asking for vessels name for my 0600 report? Hope you've "Liked" and subscribed? ;)

No it was the other skipper that was there. We will probably try there again in May next year so maybe catch you then. You can come over for a top up for your freezer if you like. 🎣 all the best.

Look forward to that one. It's been a few years since we had a fry

Sometimes it's like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock film as the gulls fight each other for a bit of space. You can imagine the cleanup operation after that???

My wife always packs me something special for Christmas & birthdays.

@@Bigwavemaster1 I can tell she must really love you and I'm sure she misses you too...I am so glad you have someone waiting for you when you come back from the sea...having someone you love and that loves you too, is the most precious gift any of us can have in this lifetime...Blessings my friend...💖⚓🙏

It'll do doubt go the same way here. It's so much more expensive to get out of the ground in the middle of the orth Sea. The only thing preventing most fracking over here is local opposition.

Thanks for the comment , Howard. It is very time consuming putting them all together but, as the years go by, they are good to look back on.

It is a bit like the Forth Bridge :) These boats take quite a battering in the winter so we take every opportunity for maintenance when the weather permits and we are not busy doing other things.

Was he on one of the rescue helicopters as part of Operation Jigsaw?

www.oilpubs.com/oso/article.asp?v1=1032

It is. I've been at sea for 36 years. It's all I do.

Not for British crews

Times are tough but I think they have levelled out now

Snapped in half in the Sea of Japan :(

I am the Chief Officer and we sail out of, and are registered in Aberdeen (UK)

chief officer? is that like the OOW or are you down in the engineroom working?

C/O is 1st Mate

Yep We film some of the largest waves ever caught on camera. We work with 2 oil platforms that can accurately measure wave height so no guessing or exaggeration. Enjoy 🌊🌊 kzfaq.info/sun/PLG-lkGl9kpwSEoYG5fJ3pwqVNZaDivv7z And Meet the Crew kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZ57l9pjx5_HdYU.html

There used to be a few helicopters stationed on platforms in the North Sea for SAR. We used to do quite a lot of training with them.

Ha! That's not as bad as it sounds. I'm telling them the sort of casualty information to give over the radio.