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Son needs to do safety course. What's involved?

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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,844 Forumite
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    You see aliasojo, there are helpful people here!
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  • ohreally
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    aliasojo wrote: »
    Anyway, he needs an Offshore Safety Cert first and his employer is sending him to Aberdeen RGIT for a week to get this. I've checked their website and spotted a pic of a helicopter simulator that gets turned upside down in the water and I now feel even sicker. He's rubbish in water...he'll drown.

    I done this course years ago..a monkey could do it.
    I've never heard of anyone fail it.
    Don’t be a can’t, be a can.
  • Savvy_Sue
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    I was wondering, does your DS know he'll have to behave himself wrt alcohol and girls in Dubai? There's going to be a programme about Dubai on ITV soon, would be worth looking out for that too.
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  • aliasojo
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    Lol Sue...I think he's going not going to have much opportunity to party by all accounts. I have mentioned the alchohol thing (and he knows not to have sex on the beach after seeing that numpty couple on the news ;) ), but I will be driling the info into him nearer the time and I'll look out for the tv prog too. Thanks. :)
    Herman - MP for all! :)
  • Savvy_Sue
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    You weren't listening to Radio 4 this afternoon, were you?
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  • aliasojo
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    No.........why?
    Herman - MP for all! :)
  • Savvy_Sue
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    Because I was, and really hoping you weren't! A play about the Piper Alpha disaster. I shall say quickly it was 20 years ago, and I am sure a LOT of procedures changed after that!

    the ITV programme is by Piers Morgan, I can't remember what exactly it's about, so may not be of interest. That's just to get things back vaguely on topic.
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  • ohreally
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    Savvy_Sue wrote: »
    A play about the Piper Alpha disaster. I shall say quickly it was 20 years ago, and I am sure a LOT of procedures changed after that


    Don't be so sure, the o/s safety culture is still questionable.
    Don’t be a can’t, be a can.
  • Edinburghlass_2
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    Piers Morgan is going to the world's glamorous locations, Dubai being one of them.

    http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/PiersMorganOn/Ep1DubaiWk05/default.html

    Let me know if you're going there for a holiday, I'll come with you :)
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,844 Forumite
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    ohreally wrote: »
    Don't be so sure, the o/s safety culture is still questionable.
    Look, we're trying to reassure aliasojo here, not scare her witless! :rotfl: Wish I hadn't mentioned it now ... but I was thinking of her at the time.
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