Subseastu's long emigration story

We have a team of geologists onboard, they help decided direction and depth we drill to

Skype is good but takes up a lot of the KU bandwidth on ships So a lot of time it is blocked

Sorry Caproc, its a communicationsoutfit. A lot of vessels hire their kit for their comms system. They used to be very poor and expensive (hence Craproc), now they're just expensive. To be fair they have improved their service somewhat over the years. Helped in part I think with advancements in satalite tracking etc

Right. You have jogged my memory. I do recall Caproc. I also recall an outfit down near where Subsea Seven used to be in Dyce. A place with a heap of satellite dishes. I cant remember their name.

Times have moved on since my day, when, on a craneship in Tunisia, if the sparks could not get Italian TV in the crew mess his life was not worth living...

... it was the spark's job because she had a Honeywell DP system, which took "crap" to an entire new level of meaning, and 115% of the available IT talent on board was taken up with that.

Ah subsea 7, I did 3 and a bit years with them. That could well be caproc

Never had the privilege of working with Honeywell dp but I've never heard a good thing about them. American outfit I think.