I’ve got 3, maybe 4 of the top 10 under my belt - guess I’m a sucker for punishment.
I survived 7 years of 2 of those as a teenager and working through college for my undergrad degree. Funny, I don’t even remember any close calls.
What happened to switchgear power guy?
Battery support system guy?
I have 12 of the first 18, and am currently #19. I’ve also done 21 and 23. I didn’t go any further into the article.
“I’ve got 3, maybe 4 of the top 10 under my belt - guess I’m a sucker for punishment.”
Me only three. However, the list is incomplete. It did not include offshore oilfield workers. I did 17 years of this before becoming a pharmacist. We had a lot of injuries. On rare occasions we lost the whole damn rig with much death. Actually the most dangerous job was being a North Sea diver on the rigs.
Click the link to these two disasters in the North Sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Kielland_(platform)
The Kielland went down shortly after I was off it. Some of my friends died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha
Those on Piper Alpha were burned alive. It was ugly. I had no friends on that platform as it was in the British Sector and I was working the Norwegian Sector. It was also most tragic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimP_x9Rhyg You tube video of a North Sea Storm hitting the Borg Dolphin. It should be noted the air gap on that vessel was about 70 feet. We had a rogue wave hit our rig once. It wiped out the helideck that was 115 feet above the water.
The North Sea in winter is a violent beautiful mistress. She will kill you in an instant.