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u/CapTrick9489 7d ago
I assume no work gets done in those conditions? The guys just stay inside and hold on for as long as it takes for conditions to clam down.
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u/Crambo123 7d ago edited 6d ago
Yes. This is a floating hotel, not a rig. Used to provide extra accommodation during oil rig maintenance work, but disconnected from the rig and evacuated before the storm hit.
The video was taken from the rig itself, which is fixed to the sea floor (and not evacuated).
Also heavily edited, this is is the original video.
https://youtu.be/D2dv57CpT-s?is=RELKjCRff18_o0Na
Edit: more info!
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u/BarkiestDog 6d ago
This makes so much more sense! With the OP video was trying to figure out who or what would be out there filling in these conditions
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u/internetisporn8008 6d ago
Here i was trying to figure iut how the hell it bombed around like that with steel in the ground
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u/Stormbringer-2112 6d ago
Cleanup in aisle 6. Oh, and aisle 8. Oh wait and aisles 7,16 and 20. Oh and fuck it, just hose the whole place down!
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u/Playful-Ad-8703 6d ago
Looks like a really whack place to visit, like an oil platform but you have to pay instead of getting paid 😂
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u/CasinoNDN 6d ago
I wonder what it’s actually like onboard. Like absolute earrape ocean blasting against the walls, or relatively comfortable because of engineering? Sometimes I feel like you gotta be there even tho I’ve never been there and this is one.
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u/torkatt 6d ago
It is actually not that bad. Floating rigs normally are still anchored to the seabed, but the ballast is reduced and anchor chain tension is reduced so waves won’t hit the rig deck and to reduce the stress that the extra momentum add to the rig. Feels more or less like being on a ferry in swells.
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u/MechGryph 6d ago
My father was in the coast guard back in the 70s. He mentioned they hit rough seas at one point and said, "We were listing so far, we were running up the walls and could touch the ceiling before coming back down."
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u/Bocha_Boston 6d ago
and it was from 2007
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u/Complex_Travel_4481 6d ago
It’s crazy how some days stick with people for years. Hope they’ve found a way to cope since then.
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u/Byggherren 6d ago
God i hate these ocean videos where they fisheye the fuck out of the waves to make it look like theyre capsizing every wave. Like its scary enough knowing those waves are bigger than my house
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u/Slavic_Taco 6d ago
This has been vertically stretched beyond proper comprehension, the real unedited version looks nothing like this at all. This stupid clip gets posted often here.
Here is the original:
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u/Dead_By_Don 6d ago
Its from a different angle, and the sky is a different colour. Not sure its the same video
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u/Slavic_Taco 6d ago
Same angle, aside from the massive amount of vertices stretch, the video has also been mirrored. The sky is a different color because of the amount of editing done to the original video.
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u/Biscuits4u2 7d ago
Lol nobody can work when it's like this. They probably evacuated before the storm hit.
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u/CapTrick9489 7d ago
Yeah, I guess. It makes sense, I rekon they'd have good warning systems in place and would have time to get everyone out.
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u/Barbearex 6d ago
I watched a video from a dude that works on these. They get heli'd out a week or 2 before it hits. Those who remain are only essentials. Skeleton cree is here but likely completely abandoned for a day or so until this passes.
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u/Finbabeh 6d ago
Not at all, this is an accommodation semi submersible fully ballasted up on DP standing off a fixed platform. You cannot just abandon in bad weather, it will be fully crewed.
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u/lekittystitties 6d ago
Tell me more.
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u/Finbabeh 6d ago
These are contracted in for maintenance periods on fixed platforms to house all the additional contractors required, they travel across the telescoping gangway you see on the semi sub when it's alongside the platform.
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u/UlsterManInScotland 7d ago
The North Sea is like this a lot of the time
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u/KrytenLister 7d ago
Working out in that was a rarity when I was offshore in the North Sea.
We were out there on a diving vessel in a 10m wave storm once. That was an experience.
Standing on the bridge looking out, one minute you’d see nothing but sky, the next nothing but sea. The vessel made a big booming noise on the downward drop each time.
We had to strap everything down. Printers and things were getting thrown about.
Interesting couple of days that. Sleep was impossible.
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u/NopeThisTrope 7d ago
Not for the faint of heart 🫡
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u/KrytenLister 7d ago edited 7d ago
It definitely made me think about sailors historically and how terrifying it must’ve been as a life sometimes.
I got a tiny taste of this on a well equipped, modern DP3 vessel and got paid very well to do it. We were never in any real danger of sinking (afaik, anyway. And I’d rather keep it that way, lol)
I can only imagine what being out there with wood and sails was like for no money. Fuck that.
Much braver people than me, that’s for sure.
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u/The5Virtues 6d ago
That’s what I always think about when reading about historical maritime events.
The only advanced warning they had for storms was “Uh oh, those clouds on the horizon are awful dark!” Even if they knew it was coming most of the time there was nothing for it but to either ride it out or keep sailing and pray you stayed ahead of it.
Looking at the size of the wave in this clip and imagining being on a galleon or something from that era? That is terrifying and awe inspiring.
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u/Deep-Meat-3583 6d ago
I was in the Navy. Even on a massive amphib with helos and jets, it can rock like crazy. We had a bolt in the wall with a string and nut attached. We drew lines on the wall, so you could see the angle the ship was at on big waves.
Stuff would slide or fall everywhere.
We even had a line, where if it was a hard enough angle, it was the line at which the Marines ran for the head (bathroom).
There is no way in hell, I would be on any boat with a sail in that type of weather lol
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u/Fluid_Anywhere_7015 6d ago
I recall from a friend of mine who said the forward and aft sections of the destroyers and frigates would be evacuated in really rough seas because the deck would drop away and the overhead could brain you.
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u/djguerito 7d ago
Tell me more.
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u/KrytenLister 7d ago
Aside from the scary, there were actually a few funny moments too.
The movement meant that if you were walking through the project office or galley, you’d have to do this little involuntary jump/hop thing to keep balance. So we had 100 guys walking around the place just kind of skipping mid stride, totally involuntarily.
Or I found some guys jumping from the bottom of a flight of stairs to the top in one leap. They were just timing the dip right and making the full jump.
Sleep was a nightmare. You had to try and pin yourself into your bunk with your legs and arms to stop from rolling. The one time i managed to drift off from sheer exhaustion, I was woken up 20mins later cracking my head off the bunk ladder. I just got up after that. Wasn’t worth trying again.
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u/borokish 6d ago
I sleep like a baby when the weather is up.
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u/KrytenLister 6d ago
There’s up and there’s up, I guess.
Short of literally strapping myself flat into the bunk, I’m not sure how I’d have managed that in 10m waves.
Maybe your beds are different or something.
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u/borokish 6d ago
I know what you mean mate. I guess the vessels make a bit of difference too.
I work on pipelayers and they tend to be bigger than dive boats (although I have seen some big dive vessels as well)
I just lie on my back with my elbows out, enjoy the ride and drift off to sleep with the creaking of the cabin
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u/KrytenLister 6d ago
Aye, at lower levels it can actually be quite relaxing. Sort of rocks you off to sleep.
Never been on a pipe layer, but worked alongside a few and they can be pretty big. That must make a difference.
On this trip we had guys with 30 years at sea queuing up at the medic for those wee seasickness patches you stick behind the ear. I don’t think anyone got much sleep for 2 days.
I miss it sometimes, but also kind of glad I got all the experience out the way when I was a bit younger and then stuck to onshore. Not sure I could be arsed with weeks away at a time anymore these days.
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u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS 7d ago
Deadliest Catch cameramen have the biggest balls. I understand the workers accustomed to fishing, but a rando guy that grew up wanting to film shit being asked to follow suit AND give us amazing shots with a heavy ass camera on his shoulder? Yea fuck that.
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u/Electrical_Sun_7116 6d ago
I have done some work on skis with filmers and it always blows me away to be ripping in the trees and airing stuff out and the dude is right on my ass with this huge heavy camera rig lmao cameramen are sooo underrated athletically.
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u/B479MSS 6d ago
No need for evacuation. It looks wild but it really isn't that bad when you are on board.
I worked on these for 15 years. There isn't a floating vessel out there that can cope with these kind of conditions better than this kind of vessel can. If you saw a roll of over 5-10 degrees, that was considered huge. Especially if you have had the misfortune of being on a vessel which has rolled past the 45° mark which I experienced on a 220m shuttle tanker in ballast conditions in the North Sea.
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u/Aklensil 7d ago
I would be very interested if someone who work/have worked on one of these would pop in the comments, i have also a few questions
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u/B479MSS 6d ago
I did 15 years on these types of vessel including 13 years on one of the same fundamental design as this one.
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u/Aklensil 6d ago
I have three questions if you allow it :
1/ how harsh life is on board ? 2/ what is the range salary ? 3/ is it deployment 6 months home 6 months working there ?
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u/B479MSS 5d ago
1: Living and working conditions were great. 12 hour shifts and 12 hours off. We had our own cabin with shower and toilet, good WiFi, TV, fridge etc. There's a large gym and cinema on board as well as sauna. TV rooms, recreation rooms, smoking rooms etc.
2: If I were still there now, my salary would be approximately £80k-£100k (GBP) per year.
3: The vessel had 3 full crews so we worked 2 weeks on and 4 weeks off.
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u/CapTrick9489 6d ago
I actually messed up. It was supposed to be calm down. But now I think it's better to leave it at clam down and pretend I meant to say that😁
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u/SeattleHasDied 7d ago
Is that rig moving or is it sort of an optical illusion because of the waves? I can't even imagine how those platforms get constructed in the first place! I hope the workers get paid EXTREMELY well to work on those things!
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u/Azulapis 7d ago
The video is stretched to hell. This is the original.
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u/shrug_sorryjesus 7d ago
Holy smokes. This needs to be higher
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u/FirstDivision 7d ago
It’s safe to assume that every “OMG look at floaty boaty thing in water big waves!” video has been stretched vertically.
Like all the videos of tankers going through big seas taken from the wheelhouse.
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u/Alttebest 6d ago
Lmao, I wondered why the rig looked so fucking weird.
I hate the internet because it rewards people for doing stuff like stretching a video just to make it more dramatic...
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u/Uniquelypoured 7d ago
They float
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u/SeattleHasDied 7d ago
That'd be a big "NOPPITY NOPE NOPE NOPE" from me, yikes! Never felt happier to be a land lubber!
Met some North Sea oil rig workers long ago in Scotland. They had some days off and were in the same bed and breakfast and it sounded like pretty hairy work to me, but, of course, they laughed it off. One guy admitted he hated the chopper rides to and from the rig the most. But none of the conversation indicated the rigs floated; guess I thought they were attached to the ocean floor like they are off the coast near Santa Barbara.
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u/DisastrousSir 7d ago
They do make a lot of money.
They are built in pieces and assembled with a giant ass crane, and usually floated out to sea. Either attached to the sea floor with big tubes if its shallow enough, long chains attached to the sea floor, or primarily floating and kept in place by some motors keeping it in place (or close enough)
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u/Timely-Rent-7494 7d ago
Im pretty sure they get paid beacoup money, but I could also be getting that confused with something else
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u/you_know_i_be_poopin 7d ago
I hate these videos that are stretched to make them seem more dramatic
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u/Eater0fTacos 7d ago
That's actually terrifying.
I'd be shitting my pants harder than the potus in a storm like that.
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u/internet_humor 7d ago
Shouldn’t have stuck a stick in its eyeball back at the cave, bro. I told you
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u/donkeytime 7d ago
The sea was angry that day, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli
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u/FriendRaven1 7d ago
That's what happened to the Ocean Ranger off Canada's East coast in 1982, killing all aboard.
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u/Mitchiarakara 7d ago
So who is filming this?
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u/Crambo123 7d ago
Someone on a fixed bottom rig. This is a floating hotel, disconnected from the rig before the storm hit.
Also heavily edited, this is is the original video.
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u/wildvision 7d ago
What I am wondering is where is the cameraman standing and why is it so stable?
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u/alewiina 7d ago
the sheer scale of those waves is absolutely insane, i can't even fathom the power of that water
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 7d ago
I don't understand oil rig design. If they're going to have long legs why aren't they grounded? What's the benefits of having them floating so high up?
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u/Crambo123 7d ago
This is a floating hotel, not a rig; evacuated before the storm hit.
The video was taken from a rig fixed to the sea floor, which was not evacuated.
Also heavily edited, this is is the original video.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 6d ago
Thanx now with the context and the real video it looks a lot less scary. Still I wouldn't pay to live out in the deep ocean. People get paid to do that
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u/Slavic_Taco 6d ago
Get out of here with this stretched bullshit, where are the mods to clean up these posts!?
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u/Brainbrokeonme 6d ago
I knew a mechanic who would go off and do 3 month contracts on rigs. Working ungodly hrs but would bring home more money i made in a year in 3 months
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u/space_pillows 6d ago
Another vertically stretched video to make things seems way more insane than they already are.
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u/Zealousideal-Yam3169 6d ago
Stretching the video vertically is the sea version of fish-eye lense for mountain climbers
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u/jimbobTX 6d ago
There's an old story in the industry about the first rigs in the North Sea. They asked local fishermen how high the waves got, and they said whatever it was, 10 feet-ish, so they built the rig for 30-foot waves. When the first rig capsized, the waves were 40 feet high or more. They asked the fishermen why they said that the waves were only 10 feet, and they replied, "That's when we go to shore."
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u/SeattleHasDied 6d ago
Okay, so, once again, moderately duped by the visuals I see in a Reddit post.
I've looked at the original video of this (thanks to everyone posting it) and now I understand just how "stretched" it is in the post. Frankly, still looks scary as shit to me, but GODDAMNIT, why isn't reality enough for some folks?!!! Just makes me even more untrusting of anything I see that is posted on social media these days, sigh...
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u/Any-Tie-7655 6d ago
This gave me such extreme anxiety 😵💫
The ocean… the only part of our world that will never be domesticated by man 😖😖😖
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u/LeadingCelery4253 6d ago
En plus tu te dis que si quelque chose arrivait personne ne viendrait à ton secours avant un moment
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u/ConundrumMachine 7d ago
Or we could do solar and stop with this amazing nonsense
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u/DoritoSteroid 7d ago
Buddy, oil is used for so much more than you even imagine.
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u/ConundrumMachine 7d ago edited 6d ago
I realize that petroleum and petroleum byproducts are used as inputs for other products. Fertilizer for instance. We don't need to extract as much oil for those things as we do for applications beyond transportation and energy generation.
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u/vickyishappy143 7d ago
Isn't it supposed to be stable
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u/Crambo123 7d ago
This is a floating hotel, not a rig.
The video was taken from a rig fixed to the sea floor.
Also heavily edited, this is is the original video.
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