[Tenega]

My hunch is Noble's floater that got loose and came with abt 2 miles of Typhoon may have been dragging anchors or cables that sheered off enough of Typhoon's six tie-down cables to let it bust free. From that posture, it would have been a sure bet to capsize, being top-heavy. Noble's rig was thought by some reports to have actually collided with Typhoon, but Noble got a retraction on that from Rigzone. Whatever, prolly sumbody go'n get sued. Here are URLs on some other nifty rig wrecks from Rita:

http://www.rigzone.com/news/image_detail.asp?img_id=2583&a_id=25600

http://www.rigzone.com/news/image_detail.asp?img_id=2582&a_id=25600

[geopyg]

I talked with someone today that was trying to get in on doing submersable imaging of some of the pipelines in the Gulf. Before things can start pumping again the pipeline has to be inspected for damage (perhaps from the dragged anchor lines, etc.?) I imagine there are thousands of miles of pipelines running to the various platforms (is that how most of it works?).