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And this is why we evacuate offshore rigs for hurricanes!
1 posted on 09/22/2004 12:38:02 PM PDT by TexasCowboy
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To: TexasCowboy

Holy crap! That's not one of yours, is it?


2 posted on 09/22/2004 12:38:34 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon; Dog Gone; Eaker; humblegunner; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Thought y'all might find this interesting!


3 posted on 09/22/2004 12:39:40 PM PDT by TexasCowboy (COB1)
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Got a before and after, for those of us who have no clue what it looked like in the first place?


4 posted on 09/22/2004 12:40:02 PM PDT by LikeLight (__________________________)
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Just more proof cheney/haliburton is responsible for these hurricanes. Think off all the money cheney/haliburton will make from fixing these platforms!!!

Follow the money, people!!! It all goes back to the evil BUSHCO!!!!!!!

(okay, have to go rinse my brain out with soap after thinking like a DU'er.)


5 posted on 09/22/2004 12:40:19 PM PDT by flashbunny (RINO's pleading for unity means they want to sabotage the republican party in peace.)
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Holy moly. Glad no-one was on it. How long is it out of commission?


6 posted on 09/22/2004 12:40:24 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: TexasCowboy

Nabors Industries?


7 posted on 09/22/2004 12:40:44 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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It got bent a bit.


8 posted on 09/22/2004 12:41:03 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
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To: TexasCowboy

Gonna be some overtime put in repairing that baby.


9 posted on 09/22/2004 12:41:15 PM PDT by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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Nah, that's the Kerry campaign apparatus.
10 posted on 09/22/2004 12:41:25 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Santorum 2008)
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Seeing this would make anyone want to evaccuate!


12 posted on 09/22/2004 12:43:47 PM PDT by theDentist (Proud Member of FreeRepublic 's "Pajama Hadeen")
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Wow, Looks like a production platform or the mast completely snapped off and sank to the bottom of the Gulf. It is also interesting that the platform itself looks to be right down at sea level. I wonder if the legs broke off as well. Strange, glad my days out there in the Gulf are over.
14 posted on 09/22/2004 12:44:20 PM PDT by pete anderson
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ping


15 posted on 09/22/2004 12:46:43 PM PDT by IncPen (It's official: CBS has jumped the shark...)
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Looks like my yard!........


17 posted on 09/22/2004 12:48:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you shoot from the hip enough times, eventually you'll shoot yourself in the a$$......)
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#1. Get cranes operational.


20 posted on 09/22/2004 12:49:15 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Molon Labe! FMCDH!)
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Wild. It doesn't even look real. It looks like a toy some kid knocked over.


21 posted on 09/22/2004 12:49:21 PM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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"This is what happens to an offshore rig during a storm like Hurricane Ivan"

Did this happen during Ivan, or merely what could happen?

While working offshore, I was hit by two hurricanes. While in the middle of both, I was comforted by radio broadcasts assuring me that I had safely been evacuated.

It has been my experience that hurricanes are wusses compared to cold fronts for both wind and waves.

23 posted on 09/22/2004 12:56:59 PM PDT by laotzu
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Man, I'm not that wild about walking around the platform of a rig on land when it's drilling, I think I am WAY too chickensh*t to be out on one of those.


25 posted on 09/22/2004 1:02:41 PM PDT by AggieCPA (Howdy, Ags!)
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Geez, that is one big mess.......... what a great photo though


27 posted on 09/22/2004 1:22:42 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Guess what? Your 72 virgins look like Michael Moore!)
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Google news search on ENSCO 64 damage:

http://news.google.com/news?q=ensco%2064%20%20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn



36 posted on 09/22/2004 1:39:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("let them go naked for a while"...Theraaazaaaaa Heinz-Kerry)
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marking


37 posted on 09/22/2004 1:42:07 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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