waiting patiently in my Marseilles hotel room for a BP tanker to turn up in port for me to audit.
I've just recreated that scene in apocalypse now where our hero is resting on the bed waiting for the fray.
Without any real fray of course, and with aircon in my case.
How does one audit a ship. Yep, that's a ship. Ok next job.
Environmental audit, hopefully it's not leaking
Well that should be fairly straightforward then, because in my experience boats with holes in them have a habit of sinking. So if its not sunk, job done. Ok, ok, I know
You'd think, wouldn't you?
We once paid for a barge to be craned out for a survey. It was afloat, looked fine in the water (we had been aboard). Bilge pumps weren't running. It didn't even smell damp, just had the usual barge smell of diesel and barge grease.
When it was craned out, there were multiple holes in the hull. Water poured out. About 2.5k in costs down the drain (surveyor fees, crane fees, costs of getting surveyors to Netherlands).