It has been a very bad year so far for helicopters ferrying passengers to and from offshore oil platforms. Today comes word of another tragedy involving BP workers:Sixteen people feared dead in North Sea helicopter crashSixteen people were feared to have been killed today when ...

While last month's helicopter crash into the North Sea had a happy ending with everyone surviving, today's crash off the coast of Canada did not. Like last month's crash, there were 18 on board, but this time there are 16 missing from the helicopter which was on its way ...

When I was working in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2007 I had to fly out to oil and gas platforms in the North Sea. Regulations there require that anyone doing so has to undertake survival training in case a helicopter goes down in the sea while transporting people to the platforms. ...

I just finished 3 days of survival training with a company in Aberdeen called Falck Nutec. The purpose of the training is to prepare people to survive offshore in the North Sea, and is required before you are able to go offshore in the U.K. or in Norway. A ...