personnel basket

English

Noun

personnel basket (plural personnel baskets)

  1. A large basket hoisted by crane to transfer people between offshore installations, drilling rigs, vessels, etc.
    • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 97:
      So we all got in the personnel basket, which is a big metal basket for transferring people from the rig to a vessel such as a boat.

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