Well whatever it is it was bleedin’ mayhem when I flew into Kiev last week (for work, not football. I’m Scottish so we tend not to appear at major championships and anyway the ball’s the wrong shape!).

Doesn’t help much I suppose when the brand new Terminal they built to cope with the influx of supporters is still closed !!! :rolleyes:

Whoever does the scoring should be shipped out also. 15 out of 25 is 60%, not 63 !!!! :diablo:

Rig-Puss…..imaginatively named as such because he lives on my Drilling Rig in the Ukraine !!! Likes sleeping in my sink !!!!

Like Scotty, I’ve worked in the Oil industry for the best part of 23 years. The majority of it in the first 15 years offshore UK.

Currently looking after a land rig in the Ukraine, but from what I see in the media, and from what I’ve heard from guys back up in Aberdeen, they had ( for the North Sea anyway) fairly good, calm conditions for the ditching with a best case, textbook exit from the aircraft straight to the liferafts. J.Boyle is right, these beasts are relatively narrow and fairly top heavy ( engines, gearboxes etc) and a decent swell usually means that despite the flotation bags on either side they can be prone to capsize .

You never try to spend too much time thinking about it, but I will admit to on occasion looking out the window at a stormy sea and thinking that if something happened, I don’t fancy my chances too much.

Helicopter crashes seem to often end up in two scenarios…..all well, or all perished. So glad that it was the former this time

What was the third ship of the class going to be called originally; Majestic? I seem to recall that Britannic wasn’t the original name.

Think it was ‘Gigantic’ though this was aqpparently always denied by the shipping line.

Born : Aberdeen, Scotland
Work: Ukraine (at present)
Live : Paphos, Cyprus.

Wasps are an important predator in the ecosystem! 😉

Not sure about Katie Prices influences on the ecosystem, but she’s definately a predator ;);)