# Edison Chouest Offshore **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [May 7, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262 "2013-05-07T04:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RobbyH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@RobbyH](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/RobbyH)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/1 "2013-05-07T04:41:52Z")
Any ideas on pay raises? For AB’s? Also going for my 1600 ton mates ticket. How much are they paying mates? ---
**Author:** ![chemcarrier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@chemcarrier](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/chemcarrier)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/2 "2013-05-07T05:02:34Z")
Last I heard it was $500 ---
**Author:** ![PaddyWest2012](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/paddywest2012/32/2405_2.png) [@PaddyWest2012](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PaddyWest2012)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/3 "2013-05-07T08:12:22Z")
> [@"chemcarrier"](#): > > Last I heard it was $500 Yup, have friends there now, $500 a day is the most recent OSV mate’s pay that I know of. I heard Nicky Collins say not too long ago that their pay-scale tops out at around $1400 a day for their Brazil captains. ---
**Author:** ![Michojay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbce88/32.png) [@Michojay](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Michojay)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/4 "2013-05-07T09:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=“PaddyWest2012;108405”] Yup, have friends there now, $500 a day is the most recent OSV mate’s pay that I know of. I heard Nicky Collins say not too long ago that their pay-scale tops out at around $1400 a day for their Brazil captains.[/QUOTE] $1400 a day? Thats about 400-500 exaggerated. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/5 "2013-05-07T09:41:23Z")
[QUOTE=“PaddyWest2012;108405”] I heard Nicky Collins say not too long ago that their pay-scale tops out at around $1400 a day for their Brazil captains.[/QUOTE] Top I have heard is $950 on a 6000 ton boat. Maybe $970 for master after the foreign bonus of peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![PaddyWest2012](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/paddywest2012/32/2405_2.png) [@PaddyWest2012](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PaddyWest2012)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/6 "2013-05-07T10:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=Michojay;108419]$1400 a day? Thats about 400-500 exaggerated.[/QUOTE] Hey now, don’t shoot the messenger. This is from Nicky Collins’ mouth to my ears. Whether its true or not I could not possibly say but since he’s the head of their HR department, or chief recruiter, or whatever his title is, I would venture to say that he is a reliable source. I am 100% sure that I did not mishear him. He said “Captains on our boats in Brazil are getting as much as $1400 per day”. Take that statement from whatever angle you so chose, good, bad, or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![z-drive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c37758/32.png) [@z-drive](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/z-drive)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/7 "2013-05-07T10:18:08Z")
If you want to be a captain in brazil, then all the power to you… Nicky also told me if I didn’t take a crap job with them years ago he was forcing on me I’d be screwed for good in this business. ---
**Author:** ![PaddyWest2012](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/paddywest2012/32/2405_2.png) [@PaddyWest2012](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PaddyWest2012)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/8 "2013-05-07T10:19:52Z")
[QUOTE=z-drive;108427]If you want to be a captain in brazil, then all the power to you…[/QUOTE] Too damn hot for me ---
**Author:** ![ChiefRob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChiefRob](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ChiefRob)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/9 "2013-05-07T11:10:36Z")
[QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;108428]Too damn hot for me[/QUOTE] Obvious you never worked in Brazil. Yes the northern part of the country is very hot. However from Rio south, it stays fairly cool almost all year down there. In fact I have been to Copacabana beach in late May early June and wish I had brought a jacket, it was cold. We worked down south close to San Sebastasian for over a year and we saw seals on a almost daily basis in the open atlantic. It was actually very cool down there year round. ---
**Author:** ![PaddyWest2012](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/paddywest2012/32/2405_2.png) [@PaddyWest2012](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PaddyWest2012)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/10 "2013-05-07T11:41:43Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;108434]I have been to Copacabana beach in late May early June and wish I had brought a jacket, it was cold.[/QUOTE] I never knew that was a real place, I always thought it was just made up for that song! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefRob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChiefRob](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ChiefRob)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/11 "2013-05-07T11:44:46Z")
[QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;108438]I never knew that was a real place, I always thought it was just made up for that song![/QUOTE] It is real, the two beach’s in Rio are Copacabana and Impanema. The only two real thing’s worth seeing in that entire shit hole of a city ---
**Author:** ![PaddyWest2012](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/paddywest2012/32/2405_2.png) [@PaddyWest2012](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PaddyWest2012)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/12 "2013-05-07T11:48:12Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;108440]It is real, the two beach’s in Rio are Copacabana and [B]Impanema[/B]. The only two real thing’s worth seeing in that entire shit hole of a city[/QUOTE] Oh god! Impanema! Another place from a song I didn’t know was real… ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/13 "2013-05-07T12:14:59Z")
> [@ChiefRob;108440](#): > > It is real, the two beach’s in Rio are Copacabana and Impanema. The only two real thing’s worth seeing in that entire shit hole of a city It’s not the beach itself that is so amazing and worth seeing but rather what is on those two beaches! study these photos carefully class…they’ll be a test afterwards ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/3/8/384a72438c84a7b0acb0d76fcf710f775c97d6d3.jpeg) Copacabana Beach and ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/4/0/40b24840a7ef1b59d195c40082aeff1887041b0f.jpeg) Ipanema Beach now class…how do you say “Holy Christ!..I want some of that!” in Portuguese? . ---
**Author:** ![Ea\_y\_Money](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@Ea\_y\_Money](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Ea_y_Money)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/14 "2013-05-07T12:17:24Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;108440]It is real, the two beach’s in Rio are Copacabana and Impanema. The only two real thing’s worth seeing in that entire shit hole of a city[/QUOTE] Beaches, songs… I just thought they were crew boat names. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/15 "2013-05-07T12:25:20Z")
[QUOTE=“Ea$y Money;108448”] Beaches, songs… I just thought they were crew boat names.[/QUOTE] Haha. Yeah, me too… ---
**Author:** ![ChiefRob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@ChiefRob](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ChiefRob)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/16 "2013-05-07T12:28:33Z")
[QUOTE=c.captain;108447] now class…how do you say “Holy Christ!..I want some of that!” in Portuguese?[/QUOTE] That is easy all you need to do is make eye contact and hold up some $$$$, they will come running. You don’t even need to speak the language. ---
**Author:** ![TXIMR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TXIMR](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/TXIMR)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/17 "2013-05-07T12:40:49Z")
[QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;108424]Hey now, don’t shoot the messenger. This is from Nicky Collins’ mouth to my ears. Whether its true or not I could not possibly say but since he’s the head of their HR department, or chief recruiter, or whatever his title is, I would venture to say that he is a reliable source. I am 100% sure that I did not mishear him. He said “Captains on our boats in Brazil are getting as much as $1400 per day”. Take that statement from whatever angle you so chose, good, bad, or otherwise.[/QUOTE] That’s A bold face lie! Top MASTERS pay on three boats is 970.00/day and you will not get it. You’ll get 20.00/day over Gulf pay and that’s it! New hires at ECO with 6000 and DP get 715/day max right now! Anything else you hear on this blog or anywhere else is total bullshit! ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/18 "2013-05-07T13:13:58Z")
[QUOTE=“TXIMR;108453”] That’s A bold face lie! Top MASTERS pay on three boats is 970.00/day and you will not get it. You’ll get 20.00/day over Gulf pay and that’s it! New hires at ECO with 6000 and DP get 715/day max right now! Anything else you hear on this blog or anywhere else is total bullshit![/QUOTE] Wow, why so angry? ---
**Author:** ![Fraqrat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/fraqrat/32/1961_2.png) [@Fraqrat](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Fraqrat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/19 "2013-05-07T14:07:26Z")
I still say everybody out chea tryna live like Tron! ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262/20 "2013-05-07T14:26:57Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;108451]That is easy all you need to do is make eye contact and hold up some $$$$, they will come running. You don’t even need to speak the language.[/QUOTE] FOO! The overlords took away the pictures of all the pretty girl’s and their lovely bottoms! The c.captain is sulking now… [Next page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/edison-chouest-offshore/10262.md?page=2)