Not a good one.
A Bo Truc brought us out a called for coil tubing unit to do a well zone seal off and we were gonna reperforate further up hole of the well bore.
As the Bo Truc backed up to the platform he had to get in really close to the platform boat landing due to the weight of the coil tubing unit and the hydraulic pack, control cab, etc. and for the boom angle required for the production crane to safely lift it up to the drill deck.
The weather was pretty bad and the seas were rough working against the needed position of the boat
The deck hand threw one 6” rope over the platform cleat, took up slack on the boat cleat and the captain was then maneuvering to set the second rope .
While pulling against the first set rope to get squared around for setting the second, the first rope parted like a rifle shot crack and the recoil rope back to the boat hit the young deck hand and took most of his head off.
I was at the hand rail with a radio, looking down and talking to the boat captain when it happened.
We lowered the man basket and loaded the young man on it and brought him up on the platform, called the shore base to fly us out a body bag and then called for the medical chopper to come and pick him up where they delivered him to West Jefferson Hospital.
It was a sad and dour day all around and for everyone involved.
But as is typical, the job continued, restaged the boat and went on to completion,
