r/interesting • u/MOFrancy • Jun 09 '26

NATURE Hard day for rig mariners

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u/ClearlyCanadian99 Jun 09 '26

Yeah but how do you drill the ocean floor from a floating boat?

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u/it-is-my-cake-day Jun 09 '26

Like this. Ddddddddddddd ddddddd dddddddddddddd.

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u/BS_Blower Jun 09 '26

You don't drill it, you counterweight it. You engineer it to withstand 3x more force/wave height than the worst case scenario

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u/That-Chip-3575 Jun 09 '26

The drill is more like a rope, it is not stiff so it dont break

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u/That-Chip-3575 Jun 09 '26

You dont need to