Thank you. On that, we made the recommendation, and it was based on the cost avoidance. We still have to make a significant investment at the BIO campus and in wharf space.
With this decision, we make less of an investment than we otherwise would have and we avoid the ongoing maintenance costs that come with any investment. We took a careful look at the locations in St. John's and Argentia, and it's not our expectation to have to make any significant investments in those locations at all, which was one of the considerations. I know one of the issues people have raised, for example, is whether you can actually tie up the vessel. We had soundings done by CHS to confirm that that was the case and that there would be no issues. We had one of our most respected captains go into Argentia and give us a report on the feasibility of that location.
So we did a lot of work. There will be some extra costs coming from the commitment to have a five-year transition period, absolutely. We thought that was important to deal with these individual situations of the crew and to meet our commitment that there would be no job loss; no individual would lose his or her job, and no individual would be forced to move. We have estimated that cost. Between the two vessels, over the period of time, we expect the additional incremental cost would be a maximum of about $500,000 or $600,000 over that period, and we would obviously look to mitigate it through a variety of measures. But that's our estimate of the maximum cost for additional cost to transport crew.