personnel basket

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.

• man basket
• personnel transfer basket