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Old 27th April 2021, 17:13
John Gowers Scotland John Gowers is offline
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Served my time as a maintenance mech with the MOD till 1974 then was an engineer with Denholm's, Swecal and BP. Went offshore North Sea in 1988 and stayed with drilling companies mostly offshore and abroad until I retired in 2015. My pass to get into offshore drilling industry was the Chief's ticket that I got with Denholms. Best time offshore was as Chief Engineer on the GSF Explorer a drillship drilling in Indonesia and India. It had been built as the Golmar Hughes Explorer by the CIA in the 70s to lift a Russian nuclear sub from the seabed in the pacific. After that escapade it sat in Long Beach stacked for 20 years before being converted to a drilling rig, its razor blades now.
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