I am having a hell-of-a time getting a sea service letter out of a company I worked of a LONG time ago. They are BS’ing me saying they don’t have the records, CG cant help me
I was a plank owner on the Cajun Express (IMO: 8764846) as an OS on her median voyage from Singapore to GOM in spring/summer of 2000.
Transocean is blowing me off and I can’t remember the skipper’s name. Its not a lot of time but it was my first international float and puts me over the edge for some oceans/near coastal time. It isn’t the end of the world but I would love to get credit for that time.
I’m not surprised that Transocean wouldn’t have sea service records from 25 years ago, for a rig that was scrapped 8 years ago, and from an era that saw them go through maybe three mergers.
Also what do you mean you want credit for it? If it wasn’t in the last five years about the only thing you could do with it is hang it on your fridge for show and tell. (Edited, since I was mostly not correct)
That’s why I said what do you want the credit for…my mind was on renewals, in which case recency matters. But for original or upgrade I guess there isn’t necessarily a recency requirement.
I worked for Transocean for ten years (well after 2000), and even at that time it was difficult getting them to write correct/adequate sea time letters. So I honestly don’t think they are BS’ing you when they say they don’t have the crew records from that time with specific rig assignments.
Fair enough. I sailed with a guy last fall that had a letter from them, issued a year ago, with his time back to 2005 so my gut was telling me they just didn’t want to go look…. But I could be wrong.
That’s only for renewal. For raise of grade, only 3 months needs to be in the last 3 years (7 years for military). [46 CFR 11.201(c)] There is no time limit on the rest.