It is still dark early on the morning of 30th March 2007 in Scalloway, Shetland as Norwegian Captain Oddne Remoy boards the Bourbon Dolphin for the first time. Bourbon Dolphin is less than a year old, painted in the distinctive green and white house colours of Bourbon Offshore Norway. She flies the Norwegian flag.

Remoy is to relieve from the vessel's existing master, Frank Reiersen, as part of the vessel's shift - five weeks on and five weeks off and is replacing the ship's other regular master, Hugo Hansen. image Hansen and Remoy have already discussed Bourbon Dolphin by telephone.