Yesterday morning 05;30, knocking at my cabin door & a patient wanting some treatment, for serve pain his had since 16:00 the day before! After assessing him & discussing with MO, it was decided to medevac him via the Coastguard. they arrived @09:00, just after I had finished their paperwork.
The Scaffolder's standing by as stretcher party & then carried the carry chair up to the heli-deck & by 09:30 the chopper was heading to the Gilbert Baine hospital in the Shetlands. The patient made it safely & was diagnosed & will be later sent back to Aberdeen, to return home care of his GP.
Cleaned up Sickbay & returned all equipment to it's place, replenish stocks ect. In the afternoon, trying to get all the paperwork attached to the relevant databases. My companies programme no problem, Shell's proved impossible. Took a break & claimed back half an hour of my overtime (no payments for O.T.) by taking an hour extra for a coffee break & my smoked final H.Upmann EL2009. For those of you familiar with this vitola, will know what a class act it is. Lasted for the full hour & very pleasant reflections on a job that went well & achieved the desired outcome.
16:45 And things start heading South. The General Platform Alarm went off & caused everyone to muster inside. We are currently shutdown & there is no live Gas or Oil so we are pretty safe from major disaster but with lots of maintenance on going, including on the Fir & Gas systems, we had several alarms since I arrived last Thurs already. This one got worse when the Emergency gen failed & we went down to battery powered back up lighting only.
By 20:00 the batteries were failing & gradually all the lights went out. The Elec's & Mech's were running around trying to re-store the power. I had left the Sickbay, no lights left & went to the Emergency Control Room & observed as the OIM did his best to get some helicopters in the air to start down manning non-essential personnel. As we were facing not being able to down man today, due to a heavy storm, that will be here for a few days, leaving us with no proper lighting or heating, no hot food or cups of tea or coffee(URGH!) & only two days of old food supply for 185 personnel.
It was midnight when one diesel gen was successfully flashed up (not the emergency gen); which meant the lights were on when the first Norwegian Coastguard chopper arrived & 15mins later the Brit counterpart arrived. They then ferried 160 of the crew to two nearby platforms. Bit of a stir, when it turned out the Noggie's weren't carrying lifejackets but the crew were told we had been given exception form wearing them due to the emergency situation.

The last flight got away at 01:30 & I finally went to bed, hoping to sleep until 10o'ish. failed due to drinking a can of pop before bed & the ol' bladder demanding get up @ 08:30. At least I could have a hot shower, automatically put on clean clothes before realising I shouldn't have, laundry not working yet.
Only 48 people left onboard, on a very large platform, meant it was a bit like a ghost ship today. Better than those stuck on the other two rigs that have 60 odd personnel onboard without beds! They were hoping to get back to us today & be reunited with their bags (they could take any personnel effects bar phones, chargers, toothbrush & paste & maybe a book) but the storm is still blowing a gale so they are facing a second night sleeping on chairs, if they are lucky or the floor of the gym.
This afternoon, another half hr clawed back & a Monte No5 also 2009. I have a few more sticks to smoke next week to celebrate my birthday so I'll be claiming more O.T. then. Off to bed now for an early night, coz you never know on here what might be happening tomorrow!