Interviews

Seismic Navigator Caroline Forster shares with Atlas, anecdotes from her 20-years of rich offshore experience and why she thinks it’s important to promote women in the industry. Read More

Fabrice Sanders swapped his job in accountancy for a more exciting around-the-world life as an engineer and technician on board seismic survey vessels. It's a career that's always full of surprises, he explains. Read More

Following in his father’s footsteps, Chief Integrated Rating Ronald Gulliford, embarked on his seagoing career at the tender age of 16. Ronald started off on cargo ships and then advanced to Anchor Handlers and he says that 33 years later, there are few vessel types he hasn’t worked on and this has largely been in South East Asia and his native Australia. Read More

Every day online and on social media, we see recruitment businesses posting advertisements quoting URGENT, MUST HAVE, MOBILISE NOW! Of course, this often results in Clients reaping the rewards of utilising a flexible workforce and having the skills when they need them. How do recruiters know who the RIGHT individual for the RIGHT job is? And how often do the Clients really get the RIGHT individual? Read More

Where going to preparatory school for engineering was once the most common way of becoming an engineer, nowadays most technical professionals go to university. In recent years, an increasing number of young men and women have been specialising in geophysics – many of them with the aim of discovering seabed secrets deep underground. Alexis Deloge is one of them. Aged 26, he is already a promising field geophysicist who lives life offshore or, as he describes it, he lives “the true adventure”. Read More