Support for offshore structures vary in different parts of the world, the UK regulations requiring a ERRV or standby vessel, capable of recovering survivors of a disaster from the sea. This is one, the Putford Acasta, now long gone, since it was sold to Saudi company Al Mojil years ago. I have been prompted to post it due to a question about the El Faro someone asking whether an assigned loadline could still result in an unsafe vessel. So what do you think of this one?

Photo taken by Peter Taylor in 2003 and posted here on 21st May 2018.