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No and whilst we can possibly see a pure profit Tory free market mentality as a possible cause I have yet to hear a single word from any labour politician stating they would insist upon manufacturing even a percentage on our shores. All we hear is lying BS about us becoming a global renewable powerhouse “ utter lies and Starmer knows it”

Joe Biden says Putin is ‘clearly losing the war in Iraq’ APPLE.NEWS Joe Biden told reporters that Vladimir Putin is “clearly losing the war in Iraq” in his latest blunder. Biden on the ball as usual 😂

So easy to put a minimum local content stipulation in at the beginning of any negotiations Mark, total lack of political will and long term vision by all the political parties. Tens of thousands of jobs being lost 😡

The propaganda is great but the reality is totally different. Mark none of what you see off our coast is built here bud, the new ships to carry out the maintenance from the base on the Tyne are built in vietnam, go to blyth mate and see how many foreign vessels are there and offshore is worse ie the heavy lift barges. Stuff is made all over the world including China and shipped here, we are getting nothing but the crumbs. Scotland won’t be independent hopefully, my view on the oil and gas is same as Norways if we need it then let’s use our own to do otherwise is pure madness. PM me if you want bud, I’ve two mates rigging on a Bulgarian crewed vessel out of Blyth they will enlighten you big time to what is actually going on out there and the sheer financial waste too.

Norway approves 19 new oil projects worth around £14.62 bn WWW.ENERGYVOICE.COM Norway has approved 19 new oil and gas projects in its waters, with total investment topping NOK... In the meantime we pander to the just stop oil and net zero fools that Starmer courts, the UK is genuinely being led by fools and ****************ed over whatever way you look it would seem. But hey at least we are good at promoting LGBTQ+ values 👍👍

Looks like that unaccountable organisation just doesn’t like being wrong. As much as I am no Lineker fan they chased him for over 5 years and lost. I wonder if it were not taxpayer funded would they still try and chase it. My case was 4 years and the end result is my tax contributions are now 25% or less of what they were prior to the investigation 👍👍well done Hmrc.

Schoolboy error 😞🤷‍♂️

Even better to have it stashed at home, up to a point admittedly.

Your cynicism is starting to rub off on me Mark

The UK deserves better than Keir Starmer’s half-hearted pitch for prime minister APPLE.NEWS If the government changes, but the frustrations many voters feel stay the same, what then? Old knee taker might get just realise it ain’t as easy as it looks Mark, always tempting to sit back and criticise but when the buck stops at you it’s totally different. Nothing Labour or any of the other opposition parties are saying looks to have any real connection to the problems your typical working class family is encountering. Labour in particular seem more concerned with various vocal minority groups than anything else.

Things must be buzzing down your way eh 👍

Political party choices are not great at min Mark I’ll agree.

Was that even worth the bloody effort to write it eh 🤷‍♂️ffs.

So we will help you by taxing you more 🤷‍♂️that’s thanks you get for being a hard working responsible type your whole working life 😡Tories I’m sad to say are literally out of ideas big time, worse than that the opposition don’t have anything whatsoever to bring to the table.

Or alternatively he can see the writing on the wall and maybe just maybe the Yankee dollar 💵 still has some appeal.

I’d agree wholeheartedly with the latter points, being frugal and sensible is not seen as a virtue nowadays. my youngest son came in asking about a stone island jumper a while back 😳over £200 it was, needless to say he regretted the request very very quickly after getting both barrels. But I guess when you rely on consumerism so much to keep the economy going then what we see now was pretty much inevitable at some point.

The depressing thing is Steve I’ve not heard any viable alternative suggestions or ideas from any other political party at all . My own view of the idea that interest rate rises will sort inflation is that it’s akin to using a hammer to sort a headache. I think you’d get more effect with a series of tv ads telling people to be cautious with money, save and plan for the future etc etc rather than constant ads encouraging us to buy shit we don’t need or eat utter muck.

The amount you borrowed for a house back then was a lot less, wage increases have nowhere near kept up with house price increases. An increase in a 40k mortgage is easier to handle than an increase on a 300k mortgage. The banks and the government are coining it in at the moment with the interest rate rises, I see Hmrc are on course for near record tax take, freezing tax thresholds and allowing people to climb into upper bands seems to be putting a lot of cash back into the tax man’s coffers.

5 lives lost and the international coverage this has generated will virtually guarantee the industry will be under the microscope. There’s a huge difference between the commercially available submarines available and the ultra Deepwater submersibles. I’ve seen the testing on civilian subs ( U Boat Worx) at a facility nearby here ( I think one of techs involved may be on here as a forum member nowadays)

Always takes a tragedy to shake things up but I’d say the submersible industry is in for a big shake up. I’d say it will have been a mercifully quick event.

I wouldn’t at all, and also a lot of the dramatic media coverage is BS quite frankly( I’ve just listened to a bbc presenter ask yet another expert “ would they have taken extra carbon dioxide with them” 😳🤷‍♂️unbelievable lack of basic understanding of high school level physiology) , whenever there is an incident of any kind it’s amazing how many people want to get involved or have an opinion or idea. Magellan want their kit on-site 🤔maybe it was the best tool for the job “ who knows” the people on-site who certainly are not fools have made the shout and are managing the situation as best as they can. More to the point at the bare minimum is the lack of contingency or emergency preparedness that seems to have been the case. I know if I’d rocked up at that set up and seen how it was deployed etc I’d have put my 250k back in my pocket and asked for a ride back to port.

The bit of kit in question is a work class ROV of which there are at least two ( probably more)mobilised on vessels at site already, even if they had flown on Monday you need to find and mobilise a suitable vessel, fit and sea fasten then load test the LARS, interface all the electronics, transit to the site etc etc, I’ve been involved with numerous bare boat mobilisations and they are not quick turnaround events. For sure time was of the essence but also the realisation that it was an impossible undertaking may have been in people’s minds when decisions were being made 🤷‍♂️. If they are now moving into a recovery phase as opposed to rescue then time is no longer an issue.

Good story, I read a book on that a good few years back. If you can get a copy try this. It’s dated and N Sea diving and vessel technology has come a long way since then but still a good albeit tragic read.

The guys in the submersible are in or were at 1 atmosphere pressure ie the same as what we are now on the surface. So if they do find them and can secure lifting eqpt to it then yeah they will be able to just pull them up with no deco issues. If it has leaked then I’d say the results would be catastrophic, a leak at that depth would be like an HP water jet coming in with 380bar of pressure. You’d soon reach the point where the normal air is toxic, so I’d say any decompression issues would be the least of their concerns, air is only used as a rule up to 50msw commercially. saturation divers breathing a helium/oxygen mix working at say 120msw will go down in a bell and when at depth lock out do a shift then come back up to vessel and lock into the system which might be at 90msw ( referred to as storage depth) the accommodation chambers are built into the vessel and the bell is just a taxi to work. All deco from depth is done in a controlled manner on the boat. Bit of a lengthy and involved topic Mark, but the Byford Dolphin incident Andy mentioned is grim reading as is the Widrake lost bell incident.

Lockdowns 'damaged a generation', former Chief Medical Officer tells Covid Inquiry | Politics | News | Express.co.uk WWW.EXPRESS.CO.UK Dame Sally Davies said she had seen 'the damage' lockdowns had done to children - and that wass... The insanely expensive Covid inquiry is not throwing up any real revelations but the fact is that the remarks of the former CMO on the damaging effects of Lockdowns were utterly predictable. I commented a long time back at watching my then 12 year old daughter In tears stuck at home during this period of absolute madness.