To fat / heavy

[transam]

Said on any questions that up to 2000 oil workers could be laid off due to being to heavy
Unless they lose weight ??

HSE regs

Helecopter rescue harnesses are only good for 18 or 19 stone

 

[Deluks]

Complete tosh

 

[Brigadier]

Fatties both float better than skinnies and, being better insulated, are more likely to survive a dunking in the North Sea.

Although their heft would prevent them being winched to safety: they'd have to be towed there instead

 

[Munroast]

very much a true story, from nov next year, 19.5 stone limit (i think that is fully booted and clothed)
and its estimated to effect 2200 workers !

think they need to cut down on the pork scratchings and get some exercise

a lot of vastly over-fed people now

 

[Notch7]

19.5 stone is pretty heavy

I can't see anybody over that weight being very productive...other than doughnut eating.

 

[Munroast]

19.5 stone is pretty heavy

I can't see anybody over that weight being very productive...other than doughnut eating.

not 100% sure but i think that is the max weight for boarding helicopter - so if suited and booted (and I think they fly in their survival suits) so how heavy would all that clothing be ? -

there will be a lot of blokes who are 16 stone (at bath time) who may fail?
I'm 13 stone at bath time and I'm lean


EDIT
checked on Munroast Verify (less bullshit and more accurate than bbc verify)
it is boarding weight and you must wear survival gear to fly inc life jacket - so probably would have been better reported as those over 17 to 17½ stone

 

[fixitflav]

and I think they fly in their survival suits

They did when I last did it, about 30 years ago. That was going from Sullom Voe to the platform. Not when flitting between the production platform and the accommodation one, which seems a bit odd with hindsight.

 

[fillyboy]

Complete tosh

 

[yorksbuilder]

Munroast Verify (less bullshit and more accurate than bbc verify)

This is good. More Munroast verify please

 

[Mottie]

I saw the thread title and thought it was a confession coming up…..

 

[motorbiking]

Fatties both float better than skinnies and, being better insulated, are more likely to survive a dunking in the North Sea.

Although their heft would prevent them being winched to safety: they'd have to be towed there instead

fatties have heart attacks when lifted out of the cold water.
18 stone is hardly skinny unless they are 7ft tall.

Offshore suites weigh 3-5kg

 

[transam]

The third reich conducted experiments on how long people could live in cold water with ref to any of there pilots could survive in cold water if they were shot down / crashed into the cold sea

They just dumped concentration camp inmates into a tank of ice cold water and see how long it took them to die

Afaik the results showed woman lived longer than men ??

 

[johnny2007]

Said on any questions that up to 2000 oil workers could be laid off due to being to heavy
Unless they lose weight ??

HSE regs

Helecopter rescue harnesses are only good for 18 or 19 stone

I've seen rescues on TV where 2 people were lifted with the harness.
Is it because the new ones are made in china?

 

[RrogerD]

The Wall-e generation is coming, if not here already.
Give it time. The media and marketing will see this as 'normal', if not already.

 

[Munroast]

Capacity of winch and gear 250kg
winch man 90kg, stretcher 30kg rescue gear 6 kg = 124kg

this leaves 126 kg capacity for the patient
10kg of the patient will be survival suit and other clothes (plus wallet which could be another kg) , so max weight of oil worker is 116kg 18 stone