[QUOTE=Fraqrat;84571]Move closer to where the work is.[/QUOTE]
Should the guys who work on the west coast of Africa move as well? The dayrates are the same and the cost of doing business is much greater there… All the companies are still making a fortune in Africa. But these damn yanks are going to make the Oil Patch in the GOM go tits up if we start picking up some of their flights… The real problem is that the industry is operated out of one of the biggest shit holes with the lowest income levels in the US and the labor pool they originally started with was willing to work for such low pay that we continue to suffer the consequences of these uneducated inbreeds. Look everywhere else in the in the world. In Norway a deckhand prob makes what a Mate or captain in the GOM makes.