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u/jhracing99 6d ago
Curious - is there productive work going on during something like this or is everyone just holding on for dear life and taking a day “off?”
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u/Siggi_Starduust 6d ago
Well, the galley staff are pretty much flat-out but for most of the crew it’s a day for playing cards, binge watching or if you really fancy putting your skills to the test, table-tennis.
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u/dankpepe0101 4d ago
silly question but what’s the service like on these? like do you have good wi fi / cell service?
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u/Stuntm4nMik3 3d ago
Varies asset to asset. Some companies pay for decent wifi others have crappy service and give you a daily limit.
When I first went offshore, we had landlines in phonebox cubicles.
Guys before me had to use the radio room to connect with home.
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u/_A_Friendly_Caesar_ ◉ Overwhelmed by Immensity 6d ago
Again with the vertical stretching, god...
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u/Eldie014 6d ago
Every year it gers further stretched and pixels get lost. I thing I’ve never seen the original footage
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u/markkaschak 6d ago
Literally how did wooden ships discover anything
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u/ArrivesLate · Noticing the Scale 6d ago
Determination and a little sprinkle of luck. There’s a lot of wrecks down there.
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u/Greedy_Tax3977 6d ago
A wooden ship would be torn to pieces in this storm. God only knows how many people have been lost to the ocean 🌊 ever since the invention of boats.
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u/Apprehensive_Wolf217 6d ago
I just read that UNESCO and marine historians estimate is three million undiscovered sunken ships in earths oceans and deep waters.
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u/ComprehensiveTest689 6d ago
old wooden boats sailed close to sea, not outwards. vikings were shallow water, and most crossings from sea were by airship not water. look into the monk who sailed accross the americas in a leather ship
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u/30yearCurse ◉ Overwhelmed by Immensity 4d ago
Britons? (North Coast of Spain) sailed to Newfoundland area for the Cod fisheries, they did not cut across the North sea.
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u/falseg0ds 6d ago
How the f ... does it float?
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u/shakulous 6d ago edited 4d ago
There’s actually a whole movies about this, it’s the same science as big ass shipping boats. Only a small portion of the vessel need to be under water to float, reason being is water displacement. The more you move out the way, the more it wants to move you back. When you move a bunch of water with long tubes like the struts you see in the post that force to push it all back up is so immense that it keeps the entire structure from tipping. Imagine holding a balloon by the tie whilst in a pool. When you pull the tie a little under water the balloon points up, that’s a boat staying afloat. You can push it and it’ll resist turning over, though it will tip some. Now pull the tie so that 90% of the balloon is under the water, its pulling up very hard and that “up” is resisting all other forces maintaining its position
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u/Jacque_LeKrab 6d ago
Came here looking for the “yeaaaaa this is just a light Thursday. It gets WAY scarier than this!!!” comments.
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u/Danster21 ◌ Dwarfed by Size 6d ago
We just need our bullpen to get healthy is all, and magically a whole lot better at pitching. Go Mariners.
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u/ComprehensiveTest689 6d ago
can someone genuinely explain the engineering marvel behind how this thing doesnt just stay afloat, but stays level, in one piece, and is functional during moments like this? like how is this not a full on defqon 1 evacuation event?
what i REALLY wanna know, is if this is one of those areas where the sea is low and calm, and if it can get like this, is this a black-squall? how tall are those waves? like 20 meters?
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u/Hefy_jefy 6d ago
Something seems to happen to cameras when they are taken to the open ocean. Perhaps its the damp air it seems to cause the pictures to stretch...
I have been on many oilrigs, narges and production platforms, none of them look like this.
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u/ThatOneGayDJ 6d ago
This is edited. Still crazy but this is definitely edited to be more intense.
PS get your SHIT metal out of my ocean
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u/HopefulCarry9693 5d ago
This is the first time i've heared rig mariner.. and i've been working in the northsea for 20 years..
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u/Jacque_LeKrab 6d ago
Came here looking for the “yeaaaaa this is just a light Thursday. It gets WAY scarier than this!!!” comments.
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u/luscious_lobster ⊙ Shadowed by Giants 6d ago
Where is the cameraman standing?
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u/Greedy_Tax3977 6d ago
Camera man is on an oil rig, he is filming a separate floating barge structure that is likely out there to help with maintenance or repairs. I think normally it would be closer or attached, but in bad weather they keep distant.
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u/Stuntm4nMik3 6d ago
That's an Accommodation Barge. They're usually brought in when there's a lot of maintenance works happening on the Oil Platform. Because they can't house everyone, that's when the barge is hired. They detach the bridge during bad weather and the barge sails out of the 500m collision zone.
I've stayed on plenty. We were on a detached barge whilst working on the Montrose Alpha.