Offshore Rig Moves Planning and Preparation Navigational Planning
The Marine Officer should plan the courses between locations, and routes to be taken through fields with due regard for jackets and barges or other vessels which may be moored in the field. Calculation should be made of the points at which it will be safe to increase the draft by lowering the legs.
Navigational planning should also include the operation of moving off location, and procedures to be adopted for final positioning. When anchor handling is necessary the position of anchors must be considered and if close to . . .