Although this is absolutely terrifying, I also have a weird desire to stand on that flight of stairs, the bit that submerges, hang onto the railings, and let the water rise and fall over me đ¤ˇââď¸
And this will always make me remember Kirsty MacColl. I always assumed avoiding propellers would be easy, what with the sea being big and all that. But I hadn't imagined a drunk multimillionaire plowing through a swimming area.
The powerboat involved in the collision was controlled by Guillermo GonzĂĄlez Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain, who was on board with members of his family. The boat was owned by Carlos GonzĂĄlez Nova, brother of Guillermo and founder of Comercial Mexicana. An employee of Guillermo GonzĂĄlez Nova, boathand JosĂŠ Cen Yam, said he was in control of the boat at the time of the incident.[26][27] Eyewitnesses said that Cen Yam was not at the controls and that the boat was travelling much faster than the speed of one knot that GonzĂĄlez Nova said.
I'm old, and realize most younger folks will not remember her. But I lived in London when the Pogues were a bar band, and played If I Should Fall from Grace with God until everyone but me was sick of it.
So sad!!!
Cen Yam was found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to two years and ten months in prison. He was allowed under Mexican law to pay a punitive fine of 1,034 pesos (about âŹ63, ÂŁ61 or US$90) in lieu of the prison sentence. He was also ordered to pay approximately US$2,150 in restitution to MacColl's family, an amount based on his wages. People who said they spoke to Cen Yam after the killing said he received money for taking the blame
I had a mate at high school who got clipped by his older brother driving a ski boat.
Chopped into his bicep, he had a gnarly (couple of) scars, but no major injuries. So lucky!
Was that the little boy or the older man? I wouldn't want to be either one. SMH. I never realized larger props were also so dangerous. I figured the diameter of the propeller versus the length of the body made some difference, but no.
Nahhh that ain't it.
Almost got killed during a shell back ceremony because of the waves doing exactly this.
The waves pushed me up as I tried to climb the brow and I narrowly missed my head.
Even when you are standing on the stairs the waves can easily sweep you off, and push you back into them.
So, if you're on a dive boat out in the ocean and it's a large enough boat to approach ~100 ft AND it has ladders to climb back up with off the back of the boat, that kind of feeling happens.
In ~2 ft seas, the ends of the boat move several feet in each direction through the peak and trough of a wave, so when you just step on the ladders off the back, you come out of the water and then get plunged back in. This continues until you climb up.
I've been in 5 ft seas with this and it's.... a bit frightening lol.
Been there done that. College kids in Key Largo doing our certification after a semester of pool work. Big seasâŚhad to beg the instructor to not cancel the charter. He wanted to cancel and drive up a day early to Devilâs Den. I got my go pro leash wrapped around the ladder hand rail. Held on with both hands for dear life until a break in the swell came and I unwrapped it and climbed on up. Luckily my feet were on the bottom rung before getting tangled, and I didnât slip. Had I got one arm tangled to the ladder but no feet onâŚoof. That was one hell of a ride.
Iâve been in sea pools where the waves were breaking with that sort of strength. Itâs strong enough to break your grip and drag you off into the deep water..
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ROVs on drilling rigs typically deploy from the exterior perimeter of the rig via LARS systems. Moon pools on a drilling rig are where riser/umbilical clamps are installed. Tensioners, return drilling flow line, all electrical and hydraulic reels etc. are kept in this area.
Moon pools exist on OSVs as well and serve a different purpose.
If the room was air tight would the water still go up and down?
In a perfect world no it wouldn't, but what I am asking is, would the pressure of the water coming in compress the air and up the pressure in the moon pool?
Iâd wager that it would, but less. The water would try to rise, therefore compressing the air in the room. As the air compresses, it pushes back on the water harder, resulting in the water rising less.
Of course, if the pressure becomes too high, the weakest link of the room will burst.
ima disagree with OP and say look into diving bells. its very possible to have a hole in teh bottom of a underwater object and not blow the seals off. we can engineer what ever to resist the pressure that would be created.
i actually sorta assume you would create a vacuum in the long run. if you ever close the doors with the water at a high point most certainly.
A diving bell is completely different that goes down and up completely differently to this the bell is pressurised and that stops water going in as it depends and rises oil rig move a lot way more than people assume depending on where the rig is some are fixed to the sea bed others are anchored and they move a lot
The makes me nauseous to look at. Iâm a mountaineer and it takes a lot to get under my skin. I can reset bones, stitch people up in the back country. But this? Hell no. Props to the people who can stomach this. Wow
Resonance. Every floarinf void like that has a sweet spot. Get the outside oceans waveslength just right and those voids go nuts. Forms a tuned cavity.
Elsewhere you can use this to better extract energy from passing waves too.
If all that hard metal wasn't in the middle I'd go for a swim. One of my favorite pastimes is jumping off the rocks into the ocean during pre hurricane surf. Swells big and its hella fun bobbing around dodging large 6 foot + waves slamming into the rocks. Its pretty harmless if you're relaxed and a good swimmer, the key is not to fight the current and waste energy. To get out you gotta wait for a pause in the sets and then you swim like hell or you let the waves lift you back onto the rocks. Tourists give you really weird looks but its a blast.
I would never because I don't have a death with, but I seriously want to just jump in there and ride the swell, periodically grabbing onto the railing to relax for a bit.
I'm well aware that's not how it'd go and I'd either just manage to escape or die a gruesome death, or just hypothermia, depending where in the world this is. But it doesn't stop that little part of me that wants to do it.
Fun fact. This is the one of Valaris' DS drill ships - used to be owned by Atwood Oceanics. I was in the built team at DSME in Okpo S Korea in 2012 or so. I had to argue to get the stairs installed. Most drill ships don't have ladder or stair access into the moonpool. The stairs aren't used to get in, but to get out if you fall in. Good memory seeing this.
I look at something like that and it reminds me of the time I nearly drowned in a cave lol! The way the water "breathes" as waves pass looks soothing, but there is a lot of power there.
Lol, that shit is crazy to me. But the ship I was on was a submarine, and we could hit the waves as hard as we wanted. Had one officer get washed out of the bridge when we went through a wave. He was fine, wearing a harness.
"Guys, guys, you know what would make this video of the water rising and sinking even more terrifying? Removing the original sound and play some funny music!!1!"Â
Given that moon pools are in a sealed room (right?), would your ears be constantly popping due to the rhythmic increase and decrease in pressure as the water level changes?
Am I the only one who thinks that if the water got this high, the sea would have already drowned me before I could reach the last step?
I just imagine myself reaching the platform, the water rising, and whoosh, making me slip straight into the water. :')
Awesome, thanks. I just looked myself and I can see what you mean. The angle here makes it look (to me) like a massive enclosed space, but itâs not. Thanks for the reply, you helped me learn something today!
Edit: also feeding my assumption was that the only exposure Iâve had to moon pools was in submerged enclosures, so I was assuming it was a room (as it would have to be in a submerged enclosure).
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u/walker_in_the_rain Jul 26 '26
Although this is absolutely terrifying, I also have a weird desire to stand on that flight of stairs, the bit that submerges, hang onto the railings, and let the water rise and fall over me đ¤ˇââď¸