Have offshore operators thrown in the towel?

[QUOTE=AHTS Master;195849]My memory is bad but it’s not that bad. Did you work with Jerry?[/QUOTE]

Jerry Verchow (sp) was our expeditor for Ocean Marine.

[QUOTE=injunear;195852]Jerry Verchow (sp) was our expeditor for Ocean Marine.[/QUOTE]

The guy I was asking about ran it in the 80’s doing escort work.

[QUOTE=AHTS Master;195853]The guy I was asking about ran it in the 80’s doing escort work.[/QUOTE]

I never worked for tidex but knew many of their personel from the garden spots I’ve worked around the world.

[QUOTE=injunear;195854]I never worked for tidex but knew many of their personnel from the garden spots I’ve worked around the world.[/QUOTE]

Garden spots!! You mean nice locations like Point Noire, Soyo etc.??
Lots of US owned boats there back in the 1980s, some with US flag. There were at least the odd American on board and ashore back in them days.

Two Singapore owned companies are fighting it out in US courts: http://splash247.com/ezra-holdings-dragged-vt-halter-marine-action-agains-emas-chiyoda-subsea/

Nice picture of a CSV with all the latest and best of equipment, which is at the forefront of the trouble.