John Wells

Background

About John Wells

I began working offshore in 1998 as a deck hand uncertified on standby vessels. I gained officer of the watch 2004 and became second mate on various standby vessels. Working in this position until i was offered, by my company (North Star Shipping) to train as driving second on a psv. I worked for two years on psv's all pos con driving, I then came across an advert for briggs marine new build ahts Kingdom of Fife. I applied and was successful, gaining the second mates' position, Shortly after I was offered a position as trainee dpo with Adams Offshore. I worked for Adams Offshore following the Nautical institute DP training syllabus, and gaining my dp ticket 2010. Gaining experience on dp class 2 vessels engaged in saturation diving,air diving,rov and core sample drilling. I was with Adams Offshore working Persian Gulf, Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico for four years. I came back to the North Sea when offered a position by Bibby Offshore on their DP class 3 vessel Bibby Polaris (now Boka Polaris).I have met and worked with some excellent dpo's and some questionable ones. I hope i have taken the best from them all and would still like to see my career progress to other types of vessel.I began working freelance 2020 and I currently have around twenty thousand genuine hours on dp 2 & 3.