Posted on 09/22/2004 12:37:59 PM PDT by TexasCowboy
Hi yourself HG!
Uncle TC's 50 Cal. didn't scare me last time, so I don't think much would this time... LOL
Hope I can make it and get to visit with y'all....
>>And this is why we evacuate offshore rigs for hurricanes!<<
Roughnecks are crazy but they sure ain't stupid....EVACUATE!
Actually, the roughnecks think this crap is fun!
They get off the rig with pay, and they always have plans for hurricane parties when they hit the bank.
It's only us guys who have to arrange for their safety that think hurricanes suck!
That old man may have been dumb, but he was one hell of a Cajun cook, I would put on 10 pounds every two weeks I was out there and would spend my two weeks home dropping the extra weight.
Try living here 24/7, and you'll see why we're the US leader in obesity! ;)
You just don't like the competition for the gals. I can smell it in your breath, Hardknocker.
I've been on this rig. That's wild.
Well, of course not!
It's every man's dream to be the only male left on planet Earth!
You got that right!
The damn cooks start cooking at three thirty in the morning and don't stop 'till midnight!
You smell food twenty-four hours a day!
In the old days we had the head cook, the pastry chef and the salad chef, all doing their best to fix more food than a thousand people could eat.
The excess food we dumped overboard, and the fish loved it.
Now if you drop a biscuit in the water the envirowhackos insist on thirty days in the electric chair.
Cool!
It's kinda hard to tell, but this doesn't look like a LaTourneau jack-up.
From the size it looks to be about about a max 200' water depth rig which would give it legs of 350 to 400 feet.
In Main Pass the spud can penetration can sometimes go to 60-80 feet below the mud line.
They would have been so well anchored that the legs would have stripped out of the slots before the spud cans moved.
I suspect that the water pressure on the bottom of the hull lifted the rig and rotated it enough to drop it outside the leg slots.
BTW: The derrick fell toward the bow which means that the bow leg gave up first and allowed the rig to fall on that side.
Yep. Long hours and fat paychecks.
With your history, you should be jumpy.
No kidding!!!
Where is Main Pass located? Is this south of Mobile Bay?
From Googling it looks like the water depth in Block 280 is about 194'.
By Maritime laws, a tug could latch onto it at any time and claim salvage rights.
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