Engineers got $70/day, 3rd Mates - $100/day raise, AB Unlimited is at $465/day (don’t know what they were making before), and QMEDs got a $90/day raise. I think HOS jumped everyone on AB and QMED but Chief Engineer is still under day rate for Chouest until you factor in the quarterly bonus of 10% gross. Chief Mates are also higher than Chief Engineers.
Nearly $500 a day for an AB? 
I need to go back on deck
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If I were an engineer on an OSV I’d pack my bags.
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Not surprised. Seems like ABs and qmeds are in the highest demand these days.
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New HOS rates spreading like wildfire on this ECO osv. Guys calling each other looking at who will bail. We are short as it is now. Can’t imagine losing more. I imagine the same is happening on the Harvey, Jackson, Candies, Seacor, etc.
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ECO would have a lot more if their quack Doctor didnt turn so many people away
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What makes you think he is a quack? Maybe he just wants to be sure only healthy people go to work. ECO is likely self insured which means they pay the healthcare bills.
If the US had a universal health plan like most developed countries this would not be an issue. Until then employers do whatever they can to reduce paying for healthcare which is VERY expensive in the US.
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The “foot doctor”/“Dr. Death” has been gone a while now. (Unless he came back and I haven’t heard about it)
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Meanwhile Harvey is stacking boats again……
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At least as of 8 months ago, he’s still around…at the very least consulting with the nurse practitioner and not so much in person if at all.
Why won’t anyone mention the doctor’s name that previously screened new hires @ Chouest? Dr. Duet (spelling) I believe.
I think their reputation from the downturn will last longer than the last downturn.
A friend who works for HOS as an AB told me he took a -15% pay cut. I think he’s bullshitting me. But swears it’s the truth. He’s in their govt boat division.
He was bullshitting me. I should know better with him 
15% 465/day for ABs. The oilfield absurdity returns!
I wanna say a few months ago i saw an ad for curtin paying ABs somewhere near that number.
Now we just gotta see how long the insanity lasts!
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I believe that the Kristin Poling still has a manned barge.
Years ago companies started giving tankermen fancy titles.
My favorite was calling them second mate at Reinauer.
I’ve heard some people gripe about “barge captain” and “barge mate” over the years but I always thought that those were appropriate titles in the instances where those personnel had full responsibility for the barge and its cargo, even in an ATB setting where the barge crew is living on the tug. Maybe it’s just me but I never had a problem with that.
Now, on the other hand, if I have to leave the wheelhouse and go over there and pump cargo myself… Then that’s another story. In that case they can stuff the titles.
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On the ATB I sailed on in the 80s, we had two AB/Tankermen that worked on the barge. The chief and second mates worked cargo, AND stood navigation watches, too. Us engineers had the tug AND the barge equipment to look after.
Transocean is doing 103k a year for a third mate with no dp certificate and a 21/21 schedule.
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Low salary for a third mate but the schedule is enticing.
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