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WHAT’S GOing ON?AUGUST 2014

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CONTENTSBEHIND THE CEO’S DESK 3THE GO FILES 4CREWING UPDATE 5MESSAGE FROM OTTO GROUP CEO 6COMMERCIAL NEWS 7INTRODUCING GO SEAENERGY 8TECHNICAL NEWS 10EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 10PAYROLL PROPAGANDA 11HSE – AVOIDANCE OF COMPLACENCY 12THE TOISA SOLITAIRE 13SHIP DETAINED 14SINGAPORE ASIA OFFICE UPDATE 14SOC ENDEAVOUR 15TRAINING UPDATE 16OPERATIONS UPDATE 16INTERVIEW WITH MUHAMMAD AFZAL 17SAFETY FOCUS 18ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS 19GO INSHORE NEWS 20NEW ADDITION TO FLEET 22GO EXPLORER RETURNS 24

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Hello again to all GO MARINE Staff, on and offshore. As I write my third article for What’s GOing On we are making some good progress with our chartering in both Australia and SEA, so, as I write, things are looking to be well and truly on the up.

It’s been a busy time for the group, and especially our operational and technical departments. The second quarter still had us dealing with multiple dockings and vessel conversions from Australia to South East Asia to Africa to Malta to Gibraltar to the Azores, with vessels often working in remote, technically and operationally challenging areas. The pressure is always on to deliver for our clients, support our crews and, more importantly, ensure safe operations on a world wide scale. Sometimes we remain in our bubble in Australia, but the group is a worldwide operational organisation and team, and the enormity of this challenge on all our staff, on and offshore, cannot be understated.

Again, I only have praise and admiration for our offshore crews for their excellent safety record and ability to perform under a great deal of pressure. Whilst we are still seeing testing times, on the commercial front we are beginning to see the fruits of the labour put in to secure long term and consistent work for our offshore fleet, as well as expanding our foot print in the manning sector once again. Tender activity is strong in Australia and vessel utilisation is improving. We are striving for a strong finish to the year for the group.

We welcomed the GO EXPLORER back into our fleet and she is proving to be a reliable ROV support for Saipem. We expect she will grace our shores for the rest of the year and beyond, with additional work scopes lining up. We bade farewell, after an awesome campaign with Allseas, only to re- welcome back the Toisa Solitaire to provide pipe haul for Saipem, again showing her versatility and reliability. Her crew is again proving to be a credit to GO MARINE.

We are proud to announce the GO SIRIUS will go to ConocoPhillips for a 90 day campaign commencing July, with additional work also lining up for her. More importantly, we will welcome GO SPICA (16000 bhp AHTS) to the Australian fleet for an 18 month campaign working out of Dampier, supporting a semi, and doing pre-lays. The SURF Supporter, MPSV/IMR support vessel, currently at our own Batamec shipyard undergoing final internal fit out and installation of the helideck and 150t subsea heave compensated crane, will be going on long term charter within the SEA region, adding another vessel to this growing segment.

GO PEGASUS has started its voyage to its long term contract trenching with DeepOcean UK. We also welcomed the SURF Ranger (ex Siesranger), after re commissioning work in Bergen, to the fold, and this vessel is now on a long term contract in the North Sea with ISS Harkand. We also welcome Rennie Cameron, Kay Campins, Nicky Harrel, Paddy Raftery and the team from our new JV Company GO SeaEnergy UK, who will be operating our

vessels in the North Sea; the start of what I can say will be a very exciting chapter, with 3 large vessels in the North Sea on long term charters. SeaEnergy will be a huge support for GO MARINE and are willing and able partners. We are truly fortunate to have this very experienced and dedicated team working with us and other exciting opportunities await in this sector.

We also see 4 vessels; GO CANOPUS, Redfish 4, Beluga1 and Beluga 2 commence long term multiyear charters supporting Pemex in Mexico.

The Group is actively looking at new tonnage to support and grow our operations, now and in the future.

We have several opportunities to leverage off the great work being undertaken by you all offshore and our office support teams. Getting consistent and long term contracts with oil majors is what we are striving for, and, though I hate to say it, we will be limited by availability of tonnage given the level of activity in Australia and overseas.

GO INSHORE continues to work hard providing inshore support solutions and is as busy as ever. We have resecured our Port Hedland port charter, and while support for the construction vessels in the region, oil spill response, crew changes and the flexibility they offer is not to be understated, we look forward to seeing this division grow. Again, I can only give praise and admiration to our excellent team and crews who continue to do all they can to safely and reliably enable GO to secure work and support a growing list of clients.

On the manning front, I am pleased to advise we have secured a major manning contract that will see GO provide manning solutions to an Accommodation Support Vessel (ASV) undertaking Wheatstone hook up and commissioning. With the return of the Aquila Explorer to Australia, we shall continue to work hard to secure manning contracts and our ability will be enhanced by the successful delivery of the Floatel project.

As I mentioned in my last column, our ability to secure future work and take part in industry growth will only be enhanced by the conclusion of the enterprise agreement negotiations.

Again I urge all parties to conclude the agreements so we can get on with building this business, which can only be done on the back of certainty. Please do not hesitate to call me if you have concerns or need anything clarified. We remain committed to concluding the process as soon as possible.

Thank you all for your support. GO‘s charter of continuing our diversity and capacity to add more capability to the fleet, as well as providing vessel support and manning solutions to the industry, will continue.

BEHIND THE CEO’S DESK INSIGHTS FROM IAN DEL ROSSO

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Full Name Nickname G M Mahafuzur Rahaman Mahfuz Position in GO MARINEEngineer officerIf you could choose any position in GO MARINE, what would it be and why?Be a part of GO technical team and like to know all the technical issues of all GO boatDescribe a day at GO MARINEGet a early morning flight, Arrive Karratha, join the boat for first time and find how to operate all the machinery and what are the common problems in that engine room What has been the highlight of your life thus far?Get a Happy family

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Help Make a Difference I am pleased to share my experience with participating in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program on 25 July 2014.

My First Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) experience started with an opportunity provided by Mr Chin WK to help 11 clients with psychiatric disabilities from Pasir Ris Community Rehabilitation Support Services achieve greater confidence and recognise the importance and value of image, etiquette and personal branding.

Prior to commencing my corporate career, I travelled the world as a flight attendant for 8.5 years with an International Airline. During this period I acquired an appreciation for high standards in personal grooming, etiquette and personal branding. I believe every person is unique and beautiful, thus my aim was to inculcate the valuable information, based on my past experiences, with the clients by facilitating a two hour grooming workshop on 25 July 2014.

The main objective for being an ‘Image Consultant’ for the day was to take each person within the group to the next level of their personal growth by helping attain greater confidence

through improved grooming and style techniques required for jobseekers, employees and self-assured social inclusion.

Life is about creating yourself. The workshop did not only focus on the impressions that were formed through personal branding but looking at all elements that make up you – YOU! I was encouraged by the enthusiasm and the willingness of the participants to engage (including case managers) throughout the workshop, especially when the concepts of colour were introduced to the class and how to use your skin’s undertones to decide what shades look best.

At the end of the workshop, clients were presented with giveaways – makeup kits for the ladies; skincare products for the gentleman. The smile on the clients’ faces and their words of ‘thank you’ made the efforts all worthwhile.

I learnt that people will forget what you have said, what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Together, let us grow and make a difference in someone’s life.

SERENE LEE

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Often folks assume that if a Vessel Operator doesn’t have as many of its vessels working as regularly as it would like, then things get pretty quiet in the Crewing Department. Well that’s certainly not the case. During these quiet periods we would very much appreciate you keeping in touch with us to keep us informed about your availability for work. Our policy has always been to ensure that our permanent crew are working and then utilise our own casual pool of employees before we consider new hires. We are also very appreciative of your flexibility, especially when we call late on a Friday night asking you to fly on the Sunday. Of course, we try and plan well in advance for our requirements. However there are often times when the notice Crewing receive to source crew for a vessel is without a lot of notice or an employee who was rostered to return to work is unable to join due to illness, injury or on compassionate grounds. Where these circumstances arise we rely on your willingness to go above and beyond and mobilise at short notice. For those crew who have assisted us in the past and continue to do so we are, and will continue to be, very grateful.

On a positive note, things are looking up for work Down Under. The Toisa Solitaire and UOS Endeavour have both had their contracts extended, with a good chance of further options to extend being exercised by the Clients. The GO SPICA has secured an 18 month + contract and the GO SIRIUS should, by the time you read this, be on hire. The GO LESATH, GO EMERALD, Seafrost, and GO EXPLORER all have ongoing work and the GO CAPELLA is returning to Australia at the end of July for a medium term contract, which is great news. There is further talk of more vessels coming to Australia, so things are extremely busy in Shared Services at present from the crewing team to the payroll department, and also for the ladies looking after Inshore and our manned vessels.

On the Manned side of the business, GO is excited to have been awarded a contract to man a DP3 Semi-Submersible Accommodation Vessel, Support ASV Vessel, the Floatel Endurance, the likes of which has never worked in Australian waters. Applications are now open, with expressions of interest being sought for 2nd Mates and Chief Officers with DP Unlimited and 1st and 2nd Engineers with DP Kongsberg experience and DP maintenance. Training for some positions will commence in September 2014. An information notice has already been issued to the fleet, but if you haven’t received that, please contact Casey Liddiard for more information on the opportunities available. In addition to the marine crew, GO is looking to engage Storekeepers, Medics, HSE Officers, Radio/Admin Officers, Maintenance Technicians and Accommodation Technicians, and would welcome potential applicants to make

contact with us. Please note that interested personnel

will need to complete an application form that

will be vetted by the various clients before any offer of employment can be made.

The Aquila Explorer is back

in Australia for the medium term

and GO is again supplying the crew to

Seabird whilst she’s back here working. Congratulations

go to Loren Jones who was officially recognised by Seabird last month

for her outstanding contribution to the catering department.

GO continues to target Australian seafarers as a priority, although finding deck and engineering officers with appropriate experience in the offshore support industry is becoming more of a challenge, not just for GO, but also for our industry colleagues. So it’s now even more critical that we understand your availability if you’re not already working for us on a regular swing, or you have worked for us in the past and would like to again, or you are considering a change from your current employer and would like to know what we have to offer. Any which way we would like to hear from you.

Thank you to those crew who have been forwarding our emails to potential new employees. Often word of mouth is one of the best and quickest methods of getting information out, and with social media it makes it all that much easier. GO MARINE GROUP has LinkedIn and Facebook pages and it pays to “follow” the company to ensure you don’t miss out on any updates when we’re actively recruiting. I’m also hoping to re-instate our GO OFFSHORE Twitter account soon.

We would also like to take this time to wish one of our longer serving Crewing Officers, Ash Wheatcroft, bon voyage. Ash left us in July, after several years in the role, to go on an overseas adventure and we’re looking forward to hearing about all the mischief she gets up to (the watered down version of course!!). Thanks Ash for all your efforts, very much appreciated.

On a final note, both Karen and I welcome any feedback, whether positive or negative, (but always constructive please) about the services the Crewing Department provides. It really helps if you ring either of us at the time and are able to talk about specifics. Often we are provided with negative feedback second-hand, well after the incident has occurred, which makes it extremely difficult to get to the root cause and take the necessary corrective action. We are all about improving our systems and your feedback is a critical part of this process, so don’t be afraid, we don’t bite, well not often anyway!

Best wishes to you all and thanks for your ongoing support.

ANNE KEENANCREWING MANAGER

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MESSAGE FROM OTTO GROUP CEODear all,

Another quarter has passed and it is pleasing to see that the hard work of many is starting to pay off. With lower utilisation of the fleet in the last quarter, coupled with multiple dockings and redeployment of vessels, the team onshore has been stretched commercially, operationally and financially, with our accounts department having to deal with the cash demands of a large worldwide fleet. Thank you to all of those involved; your efforts are appreciated and recognised.

As announced recently, the group has secured over $400 million in new charter contracts from January to June 2014, which is a significant turnaround from an order book of just $130 million at the end of December 2013. In addition to this, we have also embarked on additional corporate exercises to raise further capital to support our new builds and fleet expansion.

As a group we continue to divest away from the smaller tonnage, with a firm goal of increasing our owned deep water tonnage in larger Anchor Handlers, PSV’s and Subsea IMR vessels.

The Company recently set up a Joint Venture in Aberdeen with SeaEnergy. SeaEnergy is a wind energy focused company with expertise in the long term wind farm maintenance market. Together, GO SeaEnergy will operate our fleet in the North Sea, as well as co-invest in new tonnage for the wind farm support market.

There have been a number of concerns internationally with various reports on fuel selling occurring within companies working in the South East Asia regions. To mitigate any risk of these activities occurring within our fleet, the Company is implementing stringent procedures to ensure that this does not

occur. These procedures will include measures to apprehend perpetrators and have them prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Fuel selling is an illegal activity that causes vessel day rates to increase, which ultimately costs jobs and affects the livelihood of seafarers and their families, not to mention putting companies commercially and financially at risk. We are now closely monitoring every vessel and every activity to ensure that we do not have fuel theft onboard our fleet, and I encourage anyone that respects the Company, the Client, and their own jobs to report such activity if they are aware of it occurring.

On a brighter note, the shipyard is completing the fit out and modifications to the SURF Supporter (our newest addition- DP2, 100 man, 150T AHC Crane) IMR support vessel. Managed by GO on behalf of SURF Singapore, the vessel has been contracted long term in Australasian waters, and we expect her to spend the majority of time between Australia and Malaysia. Our shipyard is an important asset to the group, focusing on ship repair, fabrication and building vessels primarily for the Indonesia cabotage market.

In closing, I would like to personally thank you all for the commitment shown in helping the Company grow and prosper. We certainly have a bright future ahead and I look forward to sharing the good news with you all as it comes to hand.

GARRICK STANLEYGROUP CEOOTTO MARINE GROUP

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Commercial News

At the end of the second quarter, it is a relief to see the back end of the 7 special dockings and 3 major vessel mobilisations in Singapore and at our group yards in the Batam region. The young fleet, complemented by 5 vessels having completed their 5 year Special Survey, is providing GO with a good platform for securing longer term contracts. GO has continued its success in reaching award via the tender process, albeit against a difficult market when trying to fulfil the interim terms between the commencement of those awards.

Two of our 5,150BHP vessels compled their term charters with Polarcus DMCC performing seismic support duties. The Sealink 161 was redelivered to its Owners and GO ACAMAR was fixed onward for a 90-120 day charter supporting the Charterer’s seismic operations offshore Congo. The GO ALTAIR was purchased by GO OFFSHORE and placed on a long term bare boat contract, with a purchase obligation for operations within the Caspian Sea.

The 7,200BHP Beluga 1 and Beluga 2 class vessels have completed their term contracts in West Africa and the Middle East, respectively, and both are underway to Mexico for conversion to increase the mud carrying capacities as required by end user Pemex for their 3 year contracts.

Our work boat fleet is forging on with SOC Endeavour mobilised with an Ampelmann “walk to work” system, with the vessel underway to the Middle East for the next 12 months after completing her charter in North Africa, whilst the Seasafe Salvo is performing accommodation support duties offshore Angola.

Toisa Solitaire successfully completed pipe haul duties at both Gorgon and Wheatstone projects and is now supplying pipe at the ICHTHYS project for Saipem. Both the Toisa Sonata and Sea Frost continue to provide supply support to drilling operations to Charterers Daewoo in Myanmar and Apache in Australia.

GO SIRIUS remains in Australian waters and is due to commence a medium term contract for ConocoPhillips ex Darwin towards the end of July, whereas the UOS Endeavour has been extended through to the end of 2014 in support of Atwood Falcon. The GO SPICA is due to complete operations in Vietnam at the end of July and will commence operation in Australia early August.

GO PEGASUS has completed initial mobilisation at the Batamec yard and will be departing at the beginning of July for the North Sea, for the installation of a subsea crane, prior to commencing

her long term contract supporting DOUK trenching campaign. The vessel will be managed by GO SeaEnergy in Aberdeen. GO SeaEnergy also manages GO ELECTRA and the SURF Ranger, both of which based in the North Sea. The GO EXPLORER mobilised in Singapore with two work class ROVs and survey spread, now in full operation at the Ichthys field.

The GO CAPELLA will be returning to Australia for a short campaign commencing at the end of July 2014. There may be further opportunities within Australia for the vessel on completion and will update you all in the next edition if these opportunities eventuated.

Unfortunately, we have seen the departure of Greg Lee from our Singapore commercial team and more recently Matt Wardle from the Australian team. We wish both young guns all the best in their new ventures.

For an update on our vessel specifications, please do not hesitate to visit our website at www.gomarinegroup.com.au

ANDREW TROTTERCOMMERCIAL MANAGER

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INTRODUCING GO SeaEnergy

PHOTO COURTESY J DODDS

In June this year, GO OFFSHORE (Asia) Pte Ltd (GO) and SeaEnergy PLC formed a new joint venture: GO SeaEnergy Ship Management Limited. An innovative and strategic partnership, it provides GO with ship management in the waters of the northern hemisphere and, in particular, access to the lucrative North Sea energy space.

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At the time of writing, GO SeaEnergy has responsibility for two GO vessels, the SURF Ranger and GO ELECTRA, which are under full and technical management respectively. We plan to bring the GO PEGASUS under management when she arrives in our waters in the coming weeks.

The North Sea is a buoyant marketplace for our combined services and expertise. Increased demand for vessels in both hydrocarbon and renewable energy sectors and the subsequent bottlenecking - particularly affecting the offshore wind sector - make this an exciting time in which to offer forward thinking solutions to this market. This first joint venture is planned to be the beginning of a broader cooperation between GO and SeaEnergy, which will create value for both companies in this market using SeaEnergy’s reputation for innovation, market knowledge and contacts and GO’s proven operational expertise. GO SeaEnergy is already actively tendering for the provision of SeaEnergy’s unique, purpose-designed, dynamically positioned walk-to-work Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) into the offshore wind market. Demand for these walk-to-work vessels, in support of maintenance campaigns in oil and gas, is now also emerging in the UK North Sea and elsewhere.

SeaEnergy PLC is a UK-listed company which offers a diverse, innovative and integrated range of specialist services to the energy sectors globally. SeaEnergy’s specialist services, which include consultancy, asset management and innovative alliance building, are all areas that bring added value to this venture and our combined offerings to market.

In the weeks to come, we will utilise our unique asset management service R2S on a GO vessel under our manage ment. R2S is a collaborative visual asset management tool which provides high definition 360o spherical photography – photographically capturing assets and providing the user with a desk top visual, interactive, walk around capability. This will provide GO SeaEnergy with a powerful management and visual marketing tool.

Importantly, our R2S tool is used by more than 15 international oil and gas operators in the UKCS, US and Mexico. We are already working at high levels with operational, maintenance, HSE and decommissioning team leads and purchasers. These relationships offer strong potential for securing additional work for joint venture activities.

The GO SeaEnergy Ship Management joint venture is the first step in an enduring and exciting cooperation between GO OFFSHORE and SeaEnergy PLC, and we’ll keep you updated on further developments.

RENNIE CAMERON

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GO’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) service provider has recently changed business names, so we thought this a good opportunity to remind all our employees of this free service available to you and your immediate family.

WHAT Optum, previously known as PPC Worldwide, allows you to confidentially discuss any work or personal issues that are an inevitable part of life, such as: Conflict and communication Maximising performance Depression, anxiety and stress Relationship and marital problems Children or family member concerns Grief and bereavement Elder care issues Addictions Career path issue Retirement Work life balance

WHO Counselling is provided by qualified psychologists and social workers, and can take place over the phone or face-to-face.

ONLINE RESOURCES Livewell and self-help tools: Wellbeing Screeners Smoking Cessation Planner Health and Wellbeing Calculators E-cards

CONTACT INFO Australia: 1300 361 008 New Zealand: 0800 155 318 Livewell: www.livewell.optum.com (access code gomarine)

GO MARINE GROUP EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Technical NewsThe technical team has been busy. Yes…. when the least number of vessels are on hire, it is actually the busiest time for the technical teams, because we are either docking a vessel for survey, redelivering a vessel, mobilising or demobilising.

In the last edition of the newsletter you could see we were well into a cycle of 5 year special surveys for the GO ACAMAR, the GO CANOPUS, the GO EMERALD, the Toisa Solitaire, and the Toisa Sonata and the fitting of the fuel reel on the Sealink 161.

We have just completed some major conversions to vessels to meet compliance for upcoming contracts including a mezzanine Deck for ROV spread on the GO EXPLORER; a mud tank conversion for the GO CANOPUS; a helideck, crane and A-frame for the SURF Supporter, as well as modifications for GO PEGASUS that include a mezzanine deck, HIPAP, new deck crane and footings for an A-frames. The work on GO PEGASUS will be completed in Holland and UK by September before the ship goes on hire to Deep Ocean. That means they can get back to the field and we can concentrate on maintaining class and utilisation.

In the last newsletter we mentioned the Sea Frost as being “a forerunner for a building campaign of vessels of this class”. The Sea Frost is performing very well, which has confirmed this is the right vessel for the group. We are well on the way with the first new build.

GO now has a truly global footprint. The Technical superintendents are being continually tested with a range of challenges. Vessels operating in regions of Africa, Mexico, Asia, Middle East and the North Sea are keeping the Technical team busy. Management has eased some of these challenges by forming a JV partnership with SeaEnergy, to be named GO SeaEnergy (UK), and is working more closely with our sister company, SURF Subsea (US), lessening the work load in the North Sea and US.

CHRIS KINGFLEET TECHNICAL MANAGER

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PAYMENT SUMMARIESAnother financial year has rolled around and the payroll team has been busy closing out the end of year reporting. Payment Summaries were produced on Friday the 4th of July and are available online to all current employees via their “ADP Secure Client Login”. There is a slight change from previous years, with there now being a separate menu item called “Payment Summaries” where they are located. A copy of the Payment Summary has also been posted out to all current and past employees.

INCREASE TO TAX RATES The Medicare levy has increased from 1.5% to 2% of taxable income from 1 July 2014. This increase will impact all employees who are Australian residents.

For those earning more than $180,000 a year, the Federal Government has introduced a temporary budget repair levy of 2% to apply from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2017. The levy will only be charged on income over the $180,000 threshold, not the whole amount.

With the increase in the Medicare levy, this takes the top marginal tax rate to 49%.

SUPERANNUATION UPDATEA number of changes to superannuation took effect from 1 July 2014.

• Superannuation guarantee (SG) contribution rate increased to 9.5%.

• Excess contributions cap increased to $30,000 for individuals aged less than 49 years old at 30 June 2014.

• Excess contributions cap increased to $35,000 for individuals aged 49 years or more at 30 June 2014.

For the 2013-14 financial year onwards, excess concessional contributions are no longer subject to excess contributions tax. If your contributions exceed the cap, the amount will now be included in your assessable income and taxed at your marginal tax rate.

You will also have to pay the excess concessional contributions (ECC) charge on the increase in your tax liability. This charge is applied to recognise that the tax on excess concessional contributions is collected later than normal income tax.

To reduce your tax liability, the tax office will apply a 15% tax offset to account for the contributions tax that has already been paid by your super fund provider.

Once notified by the tax office of excess concessional contributions, you may elect to withdraw up to 85% of the excess contributions from your superannuation fund to help pay your income tax assessment. It is important that, if you wish to take this option, the excess concessional contribution elections form is completed and returned within the required timeframe. Failure to comply with the deadline could result in you having to pay the tax debt from your own funds.

As always, we are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding your pay. All email correspondence should be addressed to the payroll email payroll@gomarinegroup.com.au in the first instance and either Julie or I will respond.

GAVIN ANDERSONPAYROLL MANAGER

What am I?The more of me you have, the longer your life. The more of me you have, the less you have left.

Answer: Heartbeat

A man is sitting in his cabin in Perth. 4 hours later he gets out of his cabin in Melbourne. How is this possible?

Answer: He is a pilot in the cabin of the airplane.

What am I?I’m the part of a bird that’s not in the sky, I can swim in the ocean and remain dry?

Answer: A bird’s shadow

A person has one lion, one lamb and a bundle of grass. He wants to cross a river but there is only one boat and it can’t sustain the weight of more than two articles at time. Also, he has to make sure that the lion doesn’t eat the lamb and the lamb doesn’t eat the grass. How will he get to the other side of the river with all three intact?

Answer: Take the lamb across, then the bundle of grass. Take the lamb back across and then take the lion across. Then take the lamb back across and they are all unharmed.

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One of the highlights from the HSE Management Q2 review was that GO MARINE’s overall incident rate continues downwards, which is demonstrated in the graph below. This result compares favourably with the oil and gas sector in respect to mobile facilities as per the second graph.

Source NOPSEMA

Before we sit back, relax, and let complacency set in, behind all these figures are real people with real injuries which may well have been prevented.

Our GO Home Safe rules has but one salient objective, ‘achieving a good day’ which is where everyone goes home safe. So how do we achieve this objective?

There is no single methodology or silver bullet except to say there is a starting point, the avoidance of complacency. Lack

of incidents does not mean that everything we do is ‘safe’ or without risk. Potentially everyone is fallible. Complacency through a perception that you are not at risk because you believe you are experienced and consider the way you work is safe, can be a risk in itself!

Good safety includes continued learning, improvement in our knowledge and experience, understanding and application of safe practices and correction of at risk behaviours in the workplace.

So how do we ensure this happens? One of the tools to help achieve these outcomes is our Safe Act Focus (BBS) programme which focuses on observation of ‘safe’ (recognition) or ‘at risk’ (correction) activities in the work place.

Our review of this programme during the Quarter 2 meeting indicated varying degrees of how well this programmed is being applied. Though some vessels completed a large quantity of Safe Act Focus Cards, too often this was at the expense of quality.

To further promote the Safe Act Focus with a focus on quality, GO MARINE has now set the KPI of a minimum of one Safe Act Focus per person per swing. A monthly review by HSEQ will take place to identify quality cards defined as fully completed to include details of the observation, safe or at risk, the 2-way discussion between the observed and observer and the action outcomes. Those that achieve the criteria will be included in the incentive award programme. Each month, at least one person will receive an incentive award of recognition. On an annual basis the vessel achieving the best overall quality will also receive a vessel award. This will be a dollar amount, to be awarded to a charity of the vessel crew choice, as well as a vessel prize for the crew.

All in all our safety record is improving but we can always do better.

DAVID TOOTHHSE MANAGER

HSE AVOIDANCE OF COMPLACENCY

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The Toisa Solitaire, which has been a consistent work horse for GO MARINE GROUP over the past 5 years, has recently been awarded an exciting new pipe haul contract with Saipem. This will be an interesting and dynamic contract that will see the vessel undertake 24 hour operations, supplying 42” concrete coated pipe to the semi-submersible pipe lay barge, SEMAC 1, which is employed on the Ichthys Project out of Darwin.

The Ichthys LNG Project is a Joint Venture between INPEX Group companies (the Operator), major partner, TOTAL Group companies and the Australian subsidiaries of Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, Chubu Electric Power and Toho Gas. The SEMAC 1 is laying the first part of the 885km long subsea pipeline that will be used to transport gas from the Ichthys Field to the onshore LNG processing plant in Darwin.

Operationally, this will be a challenging job for the crew on the TOISA SOLITAIRE, as the pipe will be loaded out of

Kupang (Timor) and then shuttled to the SEMAC 1, which has commenced pipe laying activities inside Darwin Port Limits. This will mean regular international voyages, port clearances/entries, interaction with local and international port authorities, and a lot of administrative work for the officers to keep up with all the paper work!

Additionally, alongside operations with the SEMAC 1 will need to be well planned and executed. To maintain her position whilst laying pipe to the seabed, the SEMAC 1 uses a 12 point anchor mooring system. Wires connected to anchors 1, 6, 7 and 12 will need to be lowered to the seabed to allow the 87.4m long Toisa Solitaire to come alongside and discharge the pipe.

Both shore based and offshore personnel are looking forward to working with our client, Saipem, and undertaking this job over the coming months. The job is scheduled to commence mid June 2014.

SAM LEEVESMARINE SUPERINTENDENT

The TOISA SOLITAIRE

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Time just flew by so quickly, and I am already into my 6th month with GO OFFSHORE (Asia). The staff are still just as dedicated and focused in meeting our objectives for the year.

For the last three months, we have been busy with dockings of three of our vessels. A very challenging dry docking was conducted for Falcon 2, due to the location and local customs. In depth pre planning and the correct personnel and organisation is essential for a successful dry docking in West Africa, and it is an ongoing process for us. Oranda 1 has completed all works and is now awaiting charter in Panama, and SeaSafe Supporter, although the dry docking of the vessel was delayed, it is now due to be completed by the last week of July 2014.

We also see high tender activity from the Commercial team. There have been a few spot jobs, although the market is slow for the smaller tonnages. However, we have seen an increase in the tender activity. GO CANOPUS and Redfish 4 are on bareboat charter to Marinsa in Mexico, and Redfish 4 has commenced charter with PEMEX.

Further changes in the organisation have occurred, with Accounts Receivables now forming part of the Commercial team, working closely with all to ensure invoices are out on time and capture all back charges.

Peter Cavanagh was in our office recently to follow up on the Management Review. Our statistics were good overall, however improvement is needed in areas like Event Reporting and Support Evidence for Closure. We need everyone’s support on this, especially our seafarers.

Exciting news with GO AFRICA - Mike Kelly is taking the lead for this entity, focusing on commercial and operations for Africa and also the global workboats, with good support from the rest of the commercial team and reporting in to the Singapore office.

All in all it has been a busy quarter operationally, and a big thank you goes to all those involved from the Singapore office, and also to our offshore international workforce. We sincerely appreciate all of your efforts.

MORTEN ANDERSONGENERAL MANAGER GO OFFSHORE (ASIA)

Ship Detained for Inadequate Voyage PlanningThe Administrative Appeals Tribunal affirmed on late June this year the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) detention of a Liberian flagged vessel SCF Yenisei, in Queensland in October 2013.

The manager of the vessel sought to have the detention of the vessel downgraded at the tribunal, alleging the deficiency identified by an AMSA port marine surveyor was not serious enough to warrant detention.

AMSA Ship Safety Division General Manager Allan Schwartz said the tribunal decision had affirmed AMSA’s decision to detain the vessel, which had sailed to Mackay via Hydrographers Passage from Kawasaki without the appropriate navigational charts.

The vessel planned to continue to Brisbane but was detained after the AMSA surveyor identified that the vessel was using scanned and printed charts to transit Palm Passage of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park waters instead of proper voyage planning.

“Having the correct charts to navigate through the Great Barrier Reef, which is notoriously hazardous and of high environmental significance, is critical to ensure the safety of the Reef, the ship and its crew,” Schwartz said.

Schwartz said the tribunal’s decision confirmed that reliance on unofficial charts demonstrated inadequate voyage planning under the ships’ safety management system which leaves the ship in an unfit state to encounter the ordinary perils of the voyage without posing a threat to the environment. Lack of proper and updated charts or lack of proper voyage planning also amount to render the vessel unseaworthy which carry grave legal and contractual consequences, invalidate the insurances of the vessel and repudiates the employment the vessel engaged in with severe commercial penalties.

This is the second appeal against an AMSA detention on inappropriate navigational charts in the last two years. The tribunal has confirmed the AMSA decision on each occasion.

AMSA remind masters and operators of ships operating in Australia that carriage of appropriate navigational charts is critical to safe ship operations and protection of the marine environment.

AMSA conducts more than 3,000 Port State Control inspections at ports across Australia each year. Last year 233 were detained for having serious deficiencies that put ships, lives or the environment at risk.

“These inspections are part of AMSA’s mission to ensure safety at sea and environmental protection,” Schwartz said.

SOURCESAMSA OFFICIAL WEBSITE AMSA.GOV.AUMARINELINK.COM

Singapore AsiaOffice Update

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SOC ENDEAVOURSOC Endeavour is performing on annual shutdown of the British Gas platform Hasdrubal Offshore Tunisia. The scheduled shut down of the platform is for a continuous period of 35 days and is therefore critical in terms of the loss of production over this period. Traditionally this type of project is performed with a jack up which is pretty much weather dependent. Capt Mike Kelly has pioneered the use of SOC Endeavour type vessel along with Ampelmann with a new 24 hour connection for the heave compensated gangway. This is the first time that the 24 hour connection has been used ‘in anger’, although the system has been tested extensively on shore. Capt Mike Kelly has been working with Ampelmann on the concept of this design since the heave compensated Gangways first appeared in the offshore market place. “I believe that SOC Endeavour, Oranda One and our 4 x 239 man accommodation workboats will revolutionize Oil Major platform shut down projects with a much more economical solution than a traditional jack up rig, “ Mike Kelly excitedly reports. His passion for this segment of the market is a strong driving force. 

Roman runs the hotel services and the vessel restaurant which is called ‘The Greasy Spoon.’ SOC Endeavour is run like a 4 star hotel. “The food is far from greasy really but we all love the name of the restaurant. We cater every day with an international menu and a local menu. Wherever we go we hire local cooks to strengthen the catering team and provide for the local workers in addition to the international guys. We find the locals and the international guys will eat from both menus. Everybody gets to broaden their horizons and experiences on each project. It’s great to see people from all over the world getting on really well and enjoying the good food in our restaurant and hotel aboard the ship.” Camp boss Roman is another passionate professional who appreciates that we are in a service industry. 

Thanks go to Roman and the Capt and crew of SOC Endeavour for a really good performance on this project. Many thanks to all the team both onshore and offshore for a successful and well run project. 

MASTER STANISLAV PURO

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T R A I N I N GUPDATESHORT COURSE TRAINING

Short courses such as FRC, ECDIS, Dynamic Positioning and other vessel/project specific training is all coordinated by Training and Recruitment Officer, Lyndsay Sheehan.

Short course training is approved and delivered only when it is a vessel or project specific requirement. Any requests for developmental short course training (i.e. not higher level study requests) should be submitted to lyndsay.sheehan@gomarinegroup.com.au on the Training Request Form (GMGF.CRF.01.00045), but not before the form has been signed off by the Master in support of your application.

FORMAL QUALIFICATION UP-SKILLING

If existing crew are seeking to complete formal study in order to advance, or obtain a completely new maritime qualification, this is considered Up-Skilling.

All Up-Skilling requests should be detailed on the newly created Up-Skilling Training Request form (GMGF.CRF.01.00046) that can be found in AMOS2 and sent to Project Coordinator Casey Liddiard (casey.liddiard@gomarinegroup.com.au).

Review of up-skilling requests takes place towards the end of each calendar year, in consideration for the following year.

OPERATIONS UPDATESince last edition of “What’s the Goss?” many of our ships have now completed contracts and are on to the next project.

GO CAPELLA and GO HAWK completed their contract in towing and connecting the FPSO “Lamson”, offshore from Vung Tao and have returned to Singapore to await orders. This was a successful contract with zero injuries and breakdown.

Toisa Solitaire completed her pipe haul campaign for Allseas and has since been selected by Saipem to carry out pipe haul for the Semac 1, currently in Darwin, laying section for the Itchys Pipeline. This has the potential to continue throughout the duration of pipelay for Castorone after Semac 1 has completed her inshore sector.

UOS Endeavour and Sea Frost are continuing to sail strongly for Apache, servicing the Atwood Eagle and Atwood Falcon. Both vessels have been true workhorses, running in and out of port constantly over the year, and look to continuing into the New Year.

The GO EXPLORER has arrived on the coast and has already commenced her service to Saipem, providing ROV Survey duties. It is a pleasure having her back in Australia and we look forward to a successful campaign over the next 12 months.

GO EMERALD completed her transformation into an Oil Response Vessel and is ready to assist in the event of any oil spill occurrence on the west coast. We always hope that she will never have to actually use her equipment, but after completing nearly 20 drills successfully, we know she is ready to serve in any event. Also working with Chevron, GO LESATH is coming

up to the completion of her 2nd year on charter, running back and forth between Dampier and Barrow Island. She has recently commenced RO/RO duties and is being utilised to her full potential.

After 2 years for the Sealink and GO ACAMAR carrying out Seismic Support duties for Polarcus, the contract has come to an end for both ships. During this time, the ship sailed to various locations throughout the world, following Polarcus Alima and Polarcus Adira. With this completion, we would like to thank all the crews who sailed on these ships over that time and congratulate them on a successful campaign. The Sealink 161 has been redelivered to owners in Malaysia and the GO ACAMAR has since sailed south from Las Palmas to commence a new chapter in seismic support working on the west coast of Africa.

Looking over the horizon, the GO ALTAIR and GO CANOPUS have entered into long term bare boat charters in the Caspian Sea and Mexico. The GO PEGASUS is en-route to the North Sea, where she will commence working under Deep Ocean UK.

GO SPICA continues to operate out of Vietnam with Songa Mercur, but this ship twill make her make her maiden voyage into Australia in August.

It is the professional attitude of all our crews that is going to take GO MARINE to that next step in winning the longer term contracts and becoming the preferred provider to many more oil majors. I wish to thank all of you, offshore, for your efforts we are certainly heading in the right direction.

Continue to be SAFE.

LEE SEUBERT

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When I was given the opportunity to interview the February 2014 award winner for Excellence, Muhammad Afzal, regarding the SAP accounting system implementation, I was eager with anticipation to discover the latest developments and wanted to extract as much treasure as I could from his brilliant mind.

From an Accounts Receivable perspective, we were hit by the huge waves of the SAP challenge in November 2013 and there were very few survivors that made it to shore. Those that did are, at present, working tirelessly with a limited amount of resources and all the crew in Finance should be commended for their outstanding efforts.

For someone who has been swimming against the SAP current for the past seven months, Muhammad, surprisingly, is still able to crack his charming and winning smile. I conclude, within the first five minutes of talking to him, that this man must be really like his work, the company and the staff. The positive enthusiasm in his voice is enough to motivate me to get excited about the new changes that will be taking place on the shores of GO MARINE’s Finance department within the next few months.

MUHAMMAD, HOW IS THE SAP IMPLEMENTATION COMING ALONG?

All entities are on SAP except for Offshore.

WHEN IS THE FINAL DEADLINE FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF SAP FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS?

1st of August 2014. Purchasing is already 100% in SAP but Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable need to catch up with data entry. The Finance team is very busy at the moment.

HOW CAN OTHER DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE COMPANY ASSIST FINANCE WITH THIS IMPLEMENTATION?

When SAP commences, we will need the cooperation of all departments. They will have to ensure that the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) element is correct for costing, reporting and analysis of projects and vessels. Correct information will also need to be provided in a timely manner before the project closes. We will also need all departments to authorise invoices before accounting deadlines. Furthermore, Masters and Chief Engineers should inform Operations or Purchasing about the receipt of goods and services as soon as possible.

We need everyone to be very mindful when coding invoices in order to keep track of cost and revenue. Once SAP is fully implemented, policies and procedures related to transactions will be written and these will need to be adhered to. A good source for WBS codes and SAP in general is the intranet.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF USING THE INCORRECT ACCOUNT OR WBS CODE?

Rechargeable costs will not be recovered or delayed from customers. It will take Finance more time to process invoices and there will be overstated or understated costs/revenues for a project.

Are you able to give some examples to our shipmates out there so that they do not get stranded when attempting to code an invoice?

(Muhammad writes the below example on a piece of paper)

WBS ELEMENT

Customer/Project WBSPeriod

From To

GCAP - OWNER C.GCAP.4002.101 All Off-hire periods

SHELL DEVELOPMENT (AUSTRALIA)

C.GCAP.4002.102 01-Dec-13 31-Dec-13

WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD C.GCAP.4002.103 01-Jan-14 31-Jan-14

OFF-HIRE C.GCAP.4002.101 01-Feb-14 28-Feb-14

GLOBAL OFFSHORE PTY LTD C.GCAP.4002.104 01-Mar-14 31-Mar-14

OFF-HIRE C.GCAP.4002.101 01-Apr-14 13-Apr-14

SHELL DEVELOPMENT (AUSTRALIA)

C.GCAP.4002.105 14-Apr-14 30-Apr-14

C = Chartering

GCAP = GO CAPELLA (vessel code)

4002 = Offshore

102,103,104 and 105 = the different projects

101 = Off-hire periods (the same code is used)

Hopefully Muhammad’s accounting wisdom assists all you sea lovers out there in throwing Finance a line in these times of choppy waters. Many wonderful staff from other departments have assisted Finance and I hope that all these helpful crew are recognised and rewarded for their contributions.

And one final thought for all of you...as long as quality has a higher value than quantity, success will be guaranteed; never will you need to hoist the white flag.

INTERVIEWED BYSTEPHANIE ODEY

THE SAP CHALLENGE

INTERVIEW WITH MUHAMMAD AFZALFINANCE GROUP ACCOUNTANT

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Safety Focus Q3 2014

Eye Injuries

Emergency Departments • Eye injury constitutes 6% of injury

presentations to Australian emergency departments (EDs).

• Four-fifths of presentations involved males; the majority were of working age.

• More than half of presentations were due to a foreign body in the eye.

• Only 3% of ED presentations required hospitalisation.

Work-related eye injuries remain an important problem in the Australian workforce. They are a common cause of work-related injury presentation to emergency departments in Australia and also result in about 500 admissions to hospital per year. Even though protective eyewear is an essential item of GO MARINE PPE, eye injuries are still occurring. Most of the injuries that occur appear to be relatively minor (not requiring hospital admission) and most involve foreign bodies on the eye, particularly on the cornea. Historically, drilling, grinding and welding are the most common tasks being performed when an eye injury occurs, but even the simplest of tasks can result in an eye injury.

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Environmental Focus Q3 2014

Marine Biosecurity

Benefits of managing aquatic pests Good vessel maintenance not only prevents the introduction of new invasive marine pests (IMPs) and the spread of those already here, it also provides a number of other benefits including:

• Increased vessel performance and speed;

• Reduced fuel consumption;

• Reduced maintenance costs;

• Extended life of vessel and gear;

• Protection of our marine and estuarine

environments for future generations.

Invasive Marine Pests (IMP) are marine plants and animals that, if introduced to an area, could out-compete native species. Once well-established, many IMP’s are virtually impossible to eradicate. Therefore, prevention of arrival and early detection of new IMP’s is essential to ensure a fast response, offering the best chance of stopping them from establishing in the wild. It can also prevent costly flow-on impact to industry. The increase in GO MARINE’s ship traffic into international waters presents the greatest threat from aquatic pests ‘hitch-hiking’ on vessels’ hulls and in their ballast water. Aquatic pest control and eradication methods such as the five ‘R’s are an effective line of defence against aquatic pests, to prevent them entering our waters in the first place.

Prevent the spread of aquatic pests by following these five simple ‘Rs’

1. Regularly inspect and clean areas most prone to bio-fouling, particularly after long periods of inactivity.

2. Remember to dry and maintain your boat and equipment. Air drying will kill most pest species in about 24 hours. Remove entangled seaweed etc. from ropes, anchors, buoys and other equipment.

3. Re-apply or apply a suitable antifouling coating (AFC) well within the life-span specified by the manufacturer, paying particular attention to coverage of niche areas.

4. Regular check and ensure marine growth prevention systems (MGPS) are operating correctly.

5. Report any unusual sightings (in Australia to FISHWATCH on 1800 815 507 email : biosecurity@fish.wa.gov.au

Have you seen this mussel? The Asian green mussel (Perna Viridis) is a non-native mussel that poses a serious threat to much of the South Pacific’s environment and economy. This mussel is not currently established in many areas, but has significant potential to do so and become a major pest.

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DAMPIER

The first half of 2014 has been good for GO INSHORE.

Hopefully, the recent slowdown in activity in the Dampier region towards the end of the financial year will not last too long.

Dry docking activities have been busy, with all of the Dampier vessels undergoing maintenance and refit during the period of March to June. This should see us through to at least July 2015 before another vessel docking is required.

The Prime Mover continues to support the Chevron operations with the Thevenard Island decommissioning phase commencing, and hopefully an increase in the utilisation rate of this vessel.

GO AMPLITUDE has worked campaigns for both Chevron and Fugro with great success this year. Most of the campaigns have involved shallow water survey activity.

All of these vessels, plus the Antares Star, continue to provide ongoing adhoc services around Dampier.

EXMOUTH

The Southern Spirit has been working assisting HLV’s and PSV’s attached to the Allseas campaign, transferring pipe for the Wheatstone Project. When not working with Allseas, she is assisting other vessels in the Exmouth region.

Exmouth Sea Rescue and the Exmouth Police have been using the GO INSHORE vessels to meet their operational requirements while the rescue vessel has been out of service.

GO INSHORE has been a proud sponsor of the Exmouth Eagles Football Club since 2010. This has been a great journey and it’s been a pleasure to be involved with the football club and support the local community.

The past quarter has been a busy period for GO INSHORE (Exmouth) and recognition needs to go to the continuous support and assistance of Exmouth Freight Logistics, Exmouth Bus Charters and Exmouth Industrial Jinker.

PORT HEDLAND

We are pleased to advise that the Port Authority has signed a contract with GO to extend our services by another 5 years.

Work continues to increase each month with more and more activity happening in and around the Port with our line boats tying up over 100 vessels per month.

Well done to all our crews and support personnel in Port Hedland and our head office in Perth. The hard work is certainly paying off.

CAM, MICHAEL & CHRIS

GO INSHORE NEWS

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New Addition to our Fleet

New Addition to our Fleet

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With the way the grapevine works around this industry, many already know that GO is involved with the MT 6015 Mk 11 MPSV vessel, the GO SURF. The vessel was originally called the GO SURF, but has been renamed the SURF Supporter.

The SURF Supporter was constructed in Mazagon Naval Dockyard Ltd (MDL), Mumbai, India and delivered to the new owners of RY Offshore, a JV Company, in late May.. Designed by Marin Teknikk, in Norway, she started life as the Greatship Leela, but was cancelled and eventually became just a number until GO came along.

In her original state she was just a 100 pax vessel, fully SPS code approved, had a moon pool, a ROV deck and built in transformers.

The ship has not been without her initial challenges. On docking, the two fixed pitch azimuth propellers were stripped out and all the blades that had sustained previous yard damage were repaired – Good News…… The repair costs were covered by the builder….. honest Boss !

The mess room could only seat 38 people and give you one slice of bread every 5 minutes. Hopefully the mess room has been transformed to now seat around 65, is fitted out with coffee machines, salad bars, bain maries, fridges, an ice cream maker, a hotel conveyor toaster, ice machine etc. The gym has been transformed and an air conditioned table tennis area made, with a second gym area and seating in the tween deck areas for good calm sea days.

The SURF Supporter is now being transformed into a multi function vessel capable of much more. A 22.2m Helideck which stands proud above the wheelhouse has been retro fitted (well as you would expect, I guess… must have put it in correct place by chance), and a 100T Active Heave Compensation McGregor Crane on the Port side covering is the majority of the main deck. This beast weighs 320T. The LSA capacity has been upgraded by fitting two additional lifeboats to accommodate the full manning total, and presently modifications are in process to drop the bulwarks aft port and starboard, similar to the GO ELECTRA port aft side. Full length sponsons have been fitted to achieve a much more stable platform, enhanced stability and to retain a full deck load capacity.

From what several people from India have already witnessed, the vessel has been extensively renovated and looks very different, with new floor coverings and wooden trims on her internal decks. Vsat has been fitted, the DGPS system upgraded, a Taut wire installed on the port side along with a full Hipap system and a remote operated valve from the bridge. This vessel will be the first to trial a system where each crew can, within the

accommodation only, use his own mobile telephone via the installed sat system. We look forward to hearing how this is received, as this will determine if the concept is rolled out to other larger vessels.

The Hull is painted the distinctive blue colour of the sub charterer and has the charter logo, Fugro, already on the hull.

Are we ready to sail this mighty beast? Well … not just yet. The lady will be re-docking in the next 4 weeks to have large sponsons fitted from frame 0 through 107 , and from the bilge keel to the shelter deck. It is a large complex project with many challenges ahead. The new lifeboats and the FRC 1.2 m. will be moved outboard. New openings into the underdeck passage, new trim and stability book and new loading computer, all new plans, redoing of the inclining experiment as on and on we go with this part of the conversion.

The transformation has been achieved in Batamec Shipyard, Batam Indonesia, home of Otto’s ship building section, and I thank many for a really good job throughout. From the carpenters, hull, piping, electrical, painting (she was delivered only primed) and management, many have spent long hours, driven to despair with challenges and changes in plans, but in general we have all mucked in to get this lady better, workable and ready to move to the next day and challenge.

Nothing is straight forward in the Marine industry, but to build the ship in India, almost rebuild her in Indonesia and throw in some religious holidays, we can look back one day (it seems a long way off yet) and hope that together we deliver a much better vessel.

One of the plus sides of over a month in Mumbai with predominately Indian crew on board, to whom many thanks go for superb work and effort, and all who have been involved, particularly the Expats, is that we now know every curry there is, every naan bread, every dhal and on occasions every make of toilet paper thereafter.

The schedule is now to deliver the vessel into service around early October, after commissioning trials for the new DP equipment, crane and helideck, and hand her over to Operations to look after her and the continue hard job of maintaining her. We are confident she will be an asset to the group and will work hard and successfully during her time ahead.

CHARLES MILNENEW BUILD PROJECT DIRECTOR

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One of GO’s multi role support vessels (MRSV), the GO EXPLORER, has returned to Australian waters to provide construction support on the Ichthys project. The work scope is to be our client Sapiem’s dedicated Survey vessel.

GO EXPLORER was mobilised from Singapore in early June with two 150hp Work Class ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) systems and a host of state-of-the-art survey equipment.

Our project is split into two campaigns. The first campaign kicked off with GO EXPLORER mapping areas of THE seabed extending out from Darwin Harbour along the pipeline lay route corridor. The pipeline corridor inside the harbour has extremely tight margins of tolerance due to the myriad of items to avoid along the route. Examples are crossings of other pipelines and submarine telecommunications cables, war memorials (i.e. sunken WW2 vessels), Aboriginal sacred sites and even areas that hold potential unexploded ordnance (UXO’s) from test firing on the Navy range.

This was largely completed within two weeks of starting the project and, to the client’s satisfaction, was completed ahead of schedule.

With that done, GO EXPLORER goes into a phase of what is called “touch down monitoring”. This is watching and recording survey data, while the 42 inch Gas Export Pipeline is laid on the sea floor from Saipem’s pipelay barge the Semac-1. The Semac -1 is a 148m long barge which extends to 188m while laying pipe. GO EXPLORER’s role is critical to ensure that the pipeline, which will later be exporting hydrocarbons at extremely high pressures of up to 200BAR, is laid correctly. That sort of pressure is roughly the equivalent pressure at which a front end loader’s hydraulic system works.

Getting the pipe down without damage in exactly the right place and recording the job being done is a high profile job on a very high profile construction project, so it’s quite an achievement for GO to be involved.

MATT HARRADINE

GO EXPLORER Returns