MY WORK

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Where I Work:

  I work for a company called CISPRI that is charged with performing oil spill recovery in Cook Inlet.  
  CISPRI is a cooperative formed of several oil companies that produce and refine crude oil in the
  area.  Federal regulations require that they have oil spill contingency plans, materials, and trained 
  personnel in the event of the occurence of a spill in Cook Inlet.  CISPRI provides this function.

What I do:

  I am the technician in charge of the communications department and thus maintain the 
  telephone, radio, and marine electronics systems used by my company.  The area that CISPRI 
  is charged with responding to is mainly marine-based in Cook Inlet and immediate surrounding 
  land.  

  The company maintains two large work-boats (200-foot length) and seven smaller reponse boats 
  (26 to 45-foot in size).  All are installed with VHF Marine radios and commercial VHF radios, Radar, 
  Depth Finders, and GPS Plotters which I maintain.  In support them there are four fixed VHF 
  repeater sites, four VHF Coast Stations, and three Aircraft-Radio Remote Base Stations.  

  This encompasses an area of roughly 50 by 250 miles with remote mountain-top and island-based 
  sites reachable only by helicopter.

  In addition the company has an inventory of 180 handheld radios, 50 mobile radios, eleven portable
  repeaters, 8 portable radio consoles, and 12 GPS tracking buoys to support oil spill recovery
  operations.

  Here are some photos (click to see larger image):

  1-Main Office, 2-Comm Room, 3-Radio Racks, 4-Repeater (aerial veiw), 5-Mt.Bede Repeater Site















   6-VHF Portable Repeater, 7-Repeater Extender, 8-GPS Tracking Buoys, 9-Port. Radio Console
  10-Conectors, 11-Mobile Command Center & 70-foot crank-up Trailer-tower

















Retired:

  I retired from CISPRI on Sept. 21, 2009 after 15 years.

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