[QUOTE=Number360;157950]The great thing about the GOM mariner is he actually has options. He gets state of the art equipment, an above Union day rate, and he doesn’t have to report to a hall and pay the Union for the work he does. If he wants to quit he is not under any contract. However, he does have to listen to a bunch of winers complain about it on the Internet and that sucks.[/QUOTE]
My GOD! How I wished the world had not started spinning in the opposite direction. Once the GoM was the goddamned backwater of the industry and nobody who wasn’t from the deep south ever wanted to work there. Now today, it has become this huge money, fancy pancy, push button world which too many believe is the new Holy Grail of seafaring. The US still maintains a maritime industry from Maine to Alaska and across the globe which all together combined in still is larger than the GoM offshore yet on this forum it has become where y’all are just so fucking buttsore when someone like me says your world is backwards and does not mesh at all with ours. I don’t give a shit for the fancy pushbutton masher master mariners down there. Give me a man who can work tugs or fishing fleet in a harsh environment like a Gulf of Alaska winter or deepsea mariners who sail their vessels to where they need to go, when they need to get there with cargo intact and undamaged then discharge it and backload in minimal time, then take departure do it all over again. How many GoM mariners even know what taking departure and arrival even is I wonder?
Said it above, there is a massive chasm here but until some of you born and bred GoM mariners wake up to realize you are all not KING SHIT in this industry, you will be derided by the rest of us who know what the real maritime world is like and how to work in it. Something y’all might think a little bit about…