Aimed at workers of offshore wind companies, a new course on how to survive a helicopter crash in the ocean is coming to Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay. “The offshore environment can ...

What prompted the notice was a fatality on March 14, 2018, in Western Australia. A Eurocopter EC135 helicopter hit the water at night while on a trip to collect a marine pilot from a departing ship.

It's easy to be brave in the classroom. It's harder when you're submerged 10 feet underwater, strapped to a seat in an enclosed simulator, flipped upside down and told to escape. Panic is inevitable.

Whoops. That's what training is for, right? All of Shell's more than 650 offshore employees have undergone this type of water survival instruction, known as helicopter underwater egress training, or ...