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Went out for a quick spin, just to get the mind active this morning, ready for some more chores. Managed to take the elephants nose off one the tyre ha ha ha... oh what fun it is to hoon on a week day.

Actual work, was more maintenance on the man cave, today I have mostly been removing old putty, rubbing down (with power tool..grrr ) filling and applying new putty on the windows of said man cave, wood repairs and making good. Tomorrow will be more filling, undercoating hopefully.

Frankie wrote:Nice one mate, I hope the machines start working for you today

No need for the machine to work today...I was off on a days holiday haha and what a day it has been [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]

Fighting with Windows 10. The plan was to stick some films on the phone and tablets, but Win 10 doesn't recognise the tablet and insisted I install some software for the phone. I did the latter but that killed my touchpad, which is what it did when I first installed it, only this time the fix doesn't work.

Today going to relax, watch some films do the clothes washing and just chill

Grafting in the sun which is getting very sweaty

Blade wrote:Grafting in the sun which is getting very sweaty

Sucker! It's a nice cool 28 Deg here on night shift and a lovely sea breeze

Just had a gander over the side and fook me the sea is lousy with sharks tonight! No joke hundreds of the buggers are visible within 10-20m of the platform. Some big ones out there too. It's coming into breed season apparently. Hope there's no need to jump overboard in the near future.

Any chance of some photos of that kiwi? Sounds awesome!

TonyB wrote:Any chance of some photos of that kiwi? Sounds awesome!

Not technically... being a hydrocarbon facility any electrical equipment use on plant requires Hot Work Permits and a host of other paperwork. But it is night shift so I'll see what I can do

There is a youtube clip that was taken out here a while ago, think I already posted it a while ago but here it is..

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIgvrz5htNI[/video]

For perspective, that video was taken from Main Deck, which is near 30m from sea level, so they are a lot bigger than they look.

TonyB wrote:Any chance of some photos of that kiwi? Sounds awesome!

Tried to get a sneaky TonyB but the photographic equipment I can sneak out in my pocket doesn't seem to cut it at night from 30m above the water

Screw that Kiwi!!

That's well cool mate, I have to ask, why are they all around your rig? what attracts them?

Rossgo wrote:Screw that Kiwi!!

Yeah Rossgo.. being a diver in Aussie I've dived with a fair few different species of shark and never thought much of these ones out here thinking they were just reef sharks. But last year about this time I saw them breaching and spinning in the air, which I've never seen before, but gave me a better look at them, so did a google and talked to some work mates that live in the top end of Aussie. Yeah, these are Bronze Whalers not reef sharks, aggressive evil fookers..

Frankie wrote:That's well cool mate, I have to ask, why are they all around your rig? what attracts them?

The platform is supported on the ocean floor (80m deep) by large jacket legs, which become a bit of an artificial reef, so smaller fish hang about, bigger fish eat them and shark in turn eat them! Also, we don't have any plumbing back to the main land, it being 520 km away, so all our food waste and sewerage goes into the water, which attracts a lot of fish life.

We had a man overboard exercise not long back and I helped throw the dummy in. Took about 3 seconds for the sharks to start nosing at it. No bites though.

kiwikrasher wrote: We had a man overboard exercise not long back and I helped throw the dummy in. Took about 3 seconds for the sharks to start nosing at it. No bites though.

but a dummy isn't warm or moving or putting out any electrical signals or hormones/pheromones , I imagine they would be a lot more interested in a real person .

Jack wrote:

kiwikrasher wrote: We had a man overboard exercise not long back and I helped throw the dummy in. Took about 3 seconds for the sharks to start nosing at it. No bites though.

but a dummy isn't warm or moving or putting out any electrical signals or hormones/pheromones , I imagine they would be a lot more interested in a real person .

Definitely, hence I'd rather stay out of the drink out here!

kiwikrasher wrote:

Rossgo wrote:Screw that Kiwi!!

Yeah Rossgo.. being a diver in Aussie I've dived with a fair few different species of shark and never thought much of these ones out here thinking they were just reef sharks. But last year about this time I saw them breaching and spinning in the air, which I've never seen before, but gave me a better look at them, so did a google and talked to some work mates that live in the top end of Aussie. Yeah, these are Bronze Whalers not reef sharks, aggressive evil fookers..

Its situations like this where us Brits feel lucky for living over here where nothing wants poison you, bite you or eat you!

Jack wrote:

kiwikrasher wrote: We had a man overboard exercise not long back and I helped throw the dummy in. Took about 3 seconds for the sharks to start nosing at it. No bites though.

but a dummy isn't warm or moving or putting out any electrical signals or hormones/pheromones , I imagine they would be a lot more interested in a real person .

Definitely, hence I'd rather stay out of the drink out here!

Rossgo wrote: Its situations like this where us Brits feel lucky for living over here where nothing wants poison you, bite you or eat you!

It's not all that bad in reality, Kwacky has more chance of getting bitten by something nasty than I am.

The worse thing we'd get is a jab off a needle, a nudge off a turd or a johnny wrapped around your foot.

TonyB wrote:The worse thing we'd get is a jab off a needle, a nudge off a turd or a johnny wrapped around your foot.

Britain right there. Described so elegantly!!