As a Freelancer for many years and with the current recession I cannot see how any free lance can keep up with the current cost on these certs . OPITO , STCW and GWO Refresher courses not forgetting MIST and your HV cert as they need to be re-done every 2 - 4 years . Very soon it will be the start of a new year and I can see many Rov guys calling it a day as most have a mortgage and a family to support .
I am sure the trainings schools with think of something like MTCS has with Certificate of Competence Renewal " MTCS stipulate that personnel who wish to re-certify at a specific grade, must have been actively working at this grade, during the previous 12 months " Since many Rov guys have not worked in the past 12 months can you Imagine how much this little scheme could be worth most of the Senior Rov guys on this site will tell you its just guide lines . Once the clients have been sold the idea give it a few years and the clients will require it . The training schools will just tell you all this is due to the clients being supplied with non competent personnel however the truth of the matter is the client did not want to pay the going rate for experienced personnel and we all know pay peanuts your get monkeys . One of the worse agency's for this was IVoffshore they would send out inexperienced personnel and within a few days the guys were kicked off . So the clients need to audit them self as for agency's they should ask for 3 working references before they add the persons details to there data base .
However for this we need the price of oil to rise and that may not happen for many years , So I wonder what new scheme someone will think of next ?
I am sure the trainings schools with think of something like MTCS has with Certificate of Competence Renewal " MTCS stipulate that personnel who wish to re-certify at a specific grade, must have been actively working at this grade, during the previous 12 months " Since many Rov guys have not worked in the past 12 months can you Imagine how much this little scheme could be worth most of the Senior Rov guys on this site will tell you its just guide lines . Once the clients have been sold the idea give it a few years and the clients will require it . The training schools will just tell you all this is due to the clients being supplied with non competent personnel however the truth of the matter is the client did not want to pay the going rate for experienced personnel and we all know pay peanuts your get monkeys . One of the worse agency's for this was IVoffshore they would send out inexperienced personnel and within a few days the guys were kicked off . So the clients need to audit them self as for agency's they should ask for 3 working references before they add the persons details to there data base .
However for this we need the price of oil to rise and that may not happen for many years , So I wonder what new scheme someone will think of next ?