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  Almost inconceivable that catering staff would be over the side chipping rust in this day and age. There would have to be a mountain of paperwork before that would be approved - a Safe Job Analysis, a Risk Assessment, a Permit to Work, and a Toolbox Talk. All inherited from the oil industry and the rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows why these procedures have evolved. Not that it would happen anyway in today's frenetic environment. The ferries run continuously, four round trips to Dunkerque or five to Calais, with less than an hour to turn round in port each end. Downtime is minimal and what few catering staff there are have their hands fully occupied doing their own job let alone anybody elses. There is hardly any painting done over the side, paint is much improved these days and the paintwork on the hull lasts for at least the period between annual drydocks. The deck crew touch up the internal paint by roping off the areas to be done. Lovely to think that there was once a time when schedules were so leisurely and manning levels so much higher than today that such esoteric pursuits could be countenanced but regrettably that sort of thing belongs to a distant past that the overstretched ferrymen of today can only marvel at.

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