When we pulled up our sea anchors( hellava job doing that) to un azz the GOM and cross the alantic, 36 days to Gilbralter behind a ocean going tug doing 6 to 7 knots....
Brought plenty of smokes for that leg.
We pulled up the starboard aft anchor.
Flushed up a huge black and white manta ray from somewhere around the pontoon and moon pool.
Thing was like 20 ft wing tip to wing tip.
Huge Ray circled the rig a couple of times just below the surface.
Big show for everyone to see.
Never seen anything like that in my life.
Pretty cool Mr Manta Ray but your hang out is leaving in a couple of days.
Some of the schit you see coming up from the bottom pulling those last risers and stacking em in the riser bay is pretty wild.
Jules verne 20,000 leagues under the sea stuff.
BOP,s when ya have to pull em( huge Pita) are covered with some funky looking bottom dwelling things also.
Little jelly fish in the black sea sucked doing mooring ops to put our derrick back on at the dock.
Myself and a driller named Ryan with one of the 2nd mates in one of the 2 fast boats getting stung by em rigging up cribbing bracing and 6 inch rope to the pontoons.
Another crew in the other boat doing the same and getting stung by em
Barnacles on the pontoons were a issue that day also.
Had diver teams come in and deal with that crap weeks later.
Last edited by renegade50; 09/06/21.
