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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.

We were stacked outta Fourchon. South Tim whatever. Boneyard.

I forget. Maybe 10-15 miles out. You could see the lights of fourchon at night.

Pickup cell service from town.

Saw something floating, looked like a log. Til it got closer.

Gator.

Doubt he made it back to freshwater.

Ren50,

I’ve seen schools of manta rays. Cool looking. Gliding through the water.

Big sea turtles. Hammerheads. Never saw the great whites that roam the GoM. 🤣

1st and only time I ever seen one.
It was frighing cool as heck.

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I was talking to Toot. Are you one of his fish camp buddies?

Riding belts and spider baskets.

Didn’t care for either.

Least you had control of up / down in spider basket.



Me replacing the hull. Cut it out. Tack new plate it. Hull was warped to hell. 30+ yrs old. Have to work all the way around with dogs. Weld inside. Back gouge outside. Weld.

Riding belt you were at the mercy of another. Usually not even line of sight.

We P&A’d wells on old platform. All the usual stuff. Cut drive pipe below mud line. Go to pull it. Wont budge. Hung up at bell guide in plus 10. I go down to split the guides. In riding belt. Feet in the water. Hand up on rig hollering about the giant barracudas. 😂🤪

I was talking to you.

I'll take that as yes. 😉

Take it anyway you want to. Why dont you get your head out of your ass and post something constructive. You're not funny, haven't posted anything that anyone is interested in. All you want to do is spread schit. Of course, it's the internet and there is always a need for wannabe internet badasses. So have your fun.

Well, if the lying sack of shiit would answer yes or no, I'd move on.

Until the, have fun at Fish camp. Don't forget to double mask.

😉

There you go again....

Had friend in the dozer business that was getting all a companys rigups. I said you must be giving away a lot of whiskey. No, he was saving a lot of money buying something way better. VIAGRA

Old man I had heard stories of H2S and dead crews, nothing really specific. Like to hear more. Get it sometimes now in the coal game but nothing like oilfield.

1984 on NW Shelf they evacuated Sedco 600 back to Karratha, supposed to come to us on the Energy Searcher but went to the mainland instead. Apparently lot of H2S on testing. We used to test for it, and I remember one driller asking if we had any when we had twist offs and some etched pipe, but nothing showed up.

You were 100% correct.

I was being a dick clogging up other threads with unrelated BS.

I sincerely apologize. Double for the unwarranted double mask jab. (Sincere, but "jab" pun intended)

Goalie I think your funny and your posts about Miss Toot are very entertaining. Please continue…

I wasn't there when it happened, I was working for the pipeline company that laid the lines from the first 7 wells to the plant.

Shell had a rig drilling south and east of Piney Woods, Ms. in the late 60's or early 70's. I was there in the summer of '72. I was told the day crew drove up to the rig, the kelly was drilled down, everything seemed normal, except they didn't see any of the hands. When they looked about the rig, they found the morning crew dead. Some on the floor and some around the mud tanks. What they found had happened was the morning tour crew had drilled into the H2S. It was concentrated enough to kill all of them. By the rig continuing to run, when the kelly drilled down and couldn't go any further, it was just circulating from the bottom of the hole. By the time the day crew got there, the bad gas was circulated out. Halliburton came in, plugged the hole, and a small cinder block building was built around it. I never saw in the building, so I dont know what was in there, but I imagine they had a tree of some sort.

Shell built a plant out in the middle of nowhere and continued to drill holes in the area. As I said before, I worked for the pipeline company that laid the lines from the well to the plant.

At that time, I had never had any experience with sour gas. Having heard how bad it was, I circled around in the woods near the location site. When I got to the downwind side, on the night it happened, there were small animal skeletons laying all over the place, for at least 200 yds from the hole.

Thanks for the apology and if I said anything that was out of line, I'm sorry for that also.

You didn't, so no need.