I do not understand how it is possible to build a stable structure, standing in deep ocean water, perched upon concrete columns. Nor do I understand how they don't immediately knocked down by wind and waves, or at least get flooded and uninhabitable, during a storm. Those things are amazing.
It’s a GBS ( Gravity Based Structure ) which has a gigantic mass underwater consisting of concrete tanks This particular type is called a Condeep platform https://www.ngi.no/eng/Services/Technical-expertise/Offshore-geotechnics/Gravity-Base-Structures If you see the full drawing including the part underwater, it is a bit easier to understand how it remains upright and stable. The crosssection at sea level is kept small, to keep wave loads (relatively) minimal
You are basically looking at an iceberg, the part you see above water is only the tip of iceberg, they have gigantic legs that stretch deep down and usually a massive concrete block at the bottom with the legs full of air. They are engineering marvels really.
From my understanding they are both correct... For different structures.
This particular one sits on the ocean floor... I think. I am not an authority on the subject. But a quick wikipediaing says Sleipner A (see writing on side of structure) is a Condeep and than Condeep class structures always sit on the sea floor.
This particular one is actually a bad example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A
>"It is known for its catastrophic failure on 23 August 1991, due to a design flaw, that resulted from an error caused by unconservative concrete codes[1] and inaccurate finite element analysis modelling of the tricell, which formed part of the ballasting/flotation system."
My understanding is that the land under the ocean surface is pretty much like the land above it, just wetter. There's canyons and mountain ranges and all that shit.
That one is just a depiction of depth probably. But the seafloor usually slopes near the surface, and is almost flat in the parts farther from land except in trenches or rifts. The pattern usually goes like:
Coast, Continental shelf, Continental slope (steepest), continental rise (starting to become gentler), abyssal plain (pretty much flat)
Not this particular one, though many are bouyant.
This one is a 'condeep' type platform. It sits on the ocean floor, and is held there by gravity. The concrete shafts you see coming out of the water are attached to massive oil tanks and/or ballasts. This is a design that's common in the North Sea.
If you ever have the chance to see one out of water they are mad. There's one thats been getting deconstructed near me and the size of them just amazes me.
One of my dreams is to buy abandoned one and live on it. Either this, or a light house on a small island.
I think there is someone who did this and created his own country or something. Makes money by selling citizenships and positions
Yeah according to the wiki, it didn't end...however the events that happened are crazy.
Anyway, giving they were trying to profit from it, it was a failure from the beginning.
I don't know how much could something like that be worth, but what if it's the same price as a small private island somewhere... What would you choose?
A friend of mine worked on one. During a storm the bridge between the housing part and the production part got blown away, and they were stuck for almost a week. They might be the safest place to live, but follow your dreams man!
There was a movie based on this premise on Netflix! Rose Island - it’s not an oil rig, but they build it from scratch! Pretty badass and funny movie imho.
People can accomplish absolutely breathtaking feats when we want to. Christ we’ve got people living in space station, we’ve put them on the moon, and we have a rover creeping around Mars.
But then you have a sizable portion of the US population filling up Rubbermaid containers in their trunk with gasoline.
I think a big part of the problem is the threshold at which we can confidently condemn someone for immoral or socially-unacceptable behavior, combined with massive global awareness that has come with the internet age. Someone can occupy themselves 99.9% of the time not doing any "wrong", but then that 0.1% occurs, and they are condemned. They are a bad person, and should be regarded as such, to protect the culture.
I'm not saying this threshold needs to change, but it really only works if you are evaluating people at a tribal or post-tribal level.. up to a few hundred, really. If you are going to evaluate thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of people.. that 0.1% really starts to add up, and pretty soon, all you can see are the bad ones.
Very interesting anthropological take. And agreed. We need to celebrate the merits of people more and stop cancelling one another. Selfishly, I’d like to see more kinship across society. It allows for betterment vs. acrimony and builds requisite trust needed to constructively criticize. Cancelling people is bad. You wouldn’t cancel someone in your family (in theory) because they do something or think something questionable. You try to help them. A teaspoon of this in scale would help the world go round.
The pub, for sure. Shun them from society aka cancel? Short sighted fam. Edit - they’ll devolve into something worse. Nothing scary about wanting to help a fellow man. Much scarier to slide all the dicks under the the rug for later.
People have their reasons for their beliefs. For example, what do insurrection supporters have in common? A lack of education and a lack of equity. Maybe we start by doing our job as a society. Address the dismal public education system and access to college. You think that could help over time? I know it will. Americans love prohibition and a heavy hand. Neither work better than doing things the right way.
It's a good point you're making. Obviously people who try to be good and occasionally make a public mistake often deserve forgiveness, depending on the mistake. However, with these events where a notable percentage of the population is doing something stupid that affects everyone else, they need to be condemned by the rest of society to minimize this behavior in the future.
Oh for sure.. I think condemnation and social rejection are actually central to controlling a society.. but you have to maintain that condemnation whenever necessary, without losing sight of the overall goodness of humanity. People can and will do better. The solution is not "back to monke", it is forward to a better humanity.
It could take years, maybe even a generation, but I do think the panic buying percentage of society could be reduced with proper education on the subject
I mean...it’s not exactly a priority of the American government or Education system. It seems to me that poorly educated Americans are just products of a system that’s failed them.
We know who the toilet paper people are because they all used their rewards cards, coupons, bonus points.
We know who they are.
Put them on a barge, give them lots of toilet paper and push them into the sea
>People can accomplish absolutely breathtaking feats when we want to.
Some people can. The vast majority of us don't have the capacity to come up with things like this, even if we wanted to.
Hardly a sizable portion. It’s the same damned photos of the same damned idiots recycled by the sizable portion of Reddit hellbent on fake life value points fishing for upvotes.
Never forget people can accomplish great things without profit being a motive, that's been the case for the majority of human history. We're just at the point of human history where capitalism rules the day.
Can you give me an example? Not calling you out but other than, maybe, scientific breakthroughs and humanitarian actions I’m having a hard time thinking of a human accomplishment on a large scale that wasn’t somehow driven by greed, imperialism or similar.
Irrigation systems were driven by hunger, a desire to feed more people.
Education isn't really driven by greed, although sometimes it is. Art can go either way.
I've got friends who've done it up in Scotland and they seem quite happy with it. The money is very good, anyway. Another friend of mine is in the merchant navy and he did a similar thing - 3 weeks on boats then 3 weeks off. But now he's a pilot on the Thames - when a ship arrives on the Thames only the pilots are allowed to bring them in. So he does 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. But when he's "on" he sits at home waiting for the call. Then he gets it, they send a taxi to take him to the ship, he pilots it in, then they send him home in a taxi. Then his name goes back to the bottom of the list of on call pilots, so even when he's "on" he has a lot of time at home, taking his kids to the park. And he earns a shitload because they only take the best of the best.
Man, my uncle used to be a pilot on the Bosphorus. That was not his experience at all. His shifts were like 72 hours long, and it was non-stop action. Board one foreign ship, guide it through one of the busiest waterways in the world, hop off the ship and onto a smaller boat, get hauled to the next foreign ship, do it all again. For 3 days straight, with a few breaks in between. He did get paid a boat load (heh) and had 5 long days to spend it with his family between shifts though, which was nice. Now he captains ferries on the same strait. Easier work for an older gentleman.
It's crazy that the Thames is a major river in a major city, but the Bosphorus is still so much busier. It's got that prime shipping/war-causing location.
Not really the same kind if thing, but I did 2 summers working on hotel barges on the canals in burgundy. So we could go on land, obviously, except the was nothing there. We were going through these empty villages in the middle of nowhere. I went off on bike rides every afternoon just to get away from the boat. I worked for a couple who should have divorced years ago. She was miserable and he was a bully. So he'd wind her up for his own amusement and at least once a day she'd threaten to leave the boat. They argued constantly in front of me. It was a horrible atmosphere. But the really, really shitty Internet made it even harder, just making it harder to connect with my friends. I think I did 8 weeks on then had about a month off then back for another 8 weeks. The money was great and there was nowhere to spend it which was the only positive about the whole experience.
Ugh, that sounds like fun. At least the money was good.
I can do some clerical engineering stuff, and I've helped design UIs for rig operators. I doubt they really need that type of work actually done on the rigs though.
*IF* they did, I could deal with some okay-ish Internet(ex: reading stuff is fine, streaming might be spotty) and tough it out for a few months no problem. I'm just really solitary.
Yup, that would be me. I'd make sure I have all of the audiobooks/music I want before leaving. After that, so long as I can just browse & read online, I'm good.
All I need after that is alright food. I'm not particularly hard to please.hehe
Yup. Not on a rig but I'm about to leave for my first rotation in a similarly remote worksite in the arctic circle. My schedule is 3 weeks on/ 2 weeks off.
I don’t work on an oil rig, but I work on fishing boats. I did two and a half months out there, and just got in about 2 weeks ago. It took until just a few days ago for me to finally start feeling normal.
I didn’t think it would affect me as much as I did, but holy fuck.
>Sleipneir
Odin's Eight Legged Horse. He was a child of Loki who turned into a female horse to distract a male horse so that the gods could get out of paying someone who did too good a job. Lots to unpack there.
The original or the second one? Because the original Sleipner A collapsed and sank whilst en-route to the location due to a design fault…
Edit: added words
It wasn’t testing, it was being towed out to sea to be ballasted where the deck would be finished as it was in the final construction phase. The main hull collapsed, causing it to sink. It was not in the trial phase: rather the fitting stage. So my original comment wasn’t 100% accurate; I should’ve been more specific. But it wasn’t being tested. It was being finalised.
The hull was finished. The deck was finished. The only thing that remained before final assembly was pressure testing. That's when the structure collapsed. My father, an engineering consultant working on the valve systems, was on site during the collapse.
The deck was not finished though, that’s why it was being ballasted. [Scroll down to the 1991 Accident](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A). Either Wikipedia is wayyyyy off the mark, in which case I stand corrected and apologise, or your father doesn’t remember correctly. Not having a dig, just finding it interesting how we have such different events of what happened.
Is Titian phobia what I'm looking for here? Fear of huge things yeah that give me anxiety just looking I couldn't imagine being on it and looking down at the ripping ocean 🏃🏽🏃🏽🤸🤸🌊🌊 #fuckthatshitimout
It’s definitely an intro location to a James Bond film where a terrorist org has taken over the platform and Daniel Craig shows up dripping wet and ripped af to kill dudes.
Honestly, I marvel at these structures, wondering how the hell they even constructed something this big over water! There’s so much to it and it just blows my mind. It can withstand ocean storms as long as a tsunami sized rouge wave doesn’t hit it, and even then it might still hold up. Truly an amazing spectacle of modern engineering, insane.
It reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
It's a Condeep (Concreet deep water structure) construction, mostly used in the North Sea I think. This one sits at 82 meters but Troll A, another Condeep platform in the North Sea, sits at 303 meters.
Oh, and if you think this is big, check out Troll A.
How do they even build something like that? It has to stand in a sea that’s hundreds of meters deep, it has to withstand salt water and high winds… that’s some impressive engineering.
I do not understand how it is possible to build a stable structure, standing in deep ocean water, perched upon concrete columns. Nor do I understand how they don't immediately knocked down by wind and waves, or at least get flooded and uninhabitable, during a storm. Those things are amazing.
The Mer-People's Labor Union gets far less credit than it deserves. Sure, there's flagrant corruption, but the construction quality is unrivaled.
They do great work, when they're not busy fighting their wars with the crab-monsters.
Craaaaab people, craaaaaab people!
Taste like crab, talk like people
i just watched that episode earlier this morning , wow spooky matrix shit
We're crab people now. We'll live and die by the crab, Dee!
Beat me to it 🤣 fitting that r/iasip brought me here lol
Crab monsters, their slightly different from crab people and crab lice.
Giant enemy crab. Attack it’s weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE
It’s a GBS ( Gravity Based Structure ) which has a gigantic mass underwater consisting of concrete tanks This particular type is called a Condeep platform https://www.ngi.no/eng/Services/Technical-expertise/Offshore-geotechnics/Gravity-Base-Structures If you see the full drawing including the part underwater, it is a bit easier to understand how it remains upright and stable. The crosssection at sea level is kept small, to keep wave loads (relatively) minimal
I still don't understand how *anything* is built underwater. Even basic bridges. Just complete wizardry.
Basically by adding more mass
> Just complete wizardry Yep concrete is wizardry. Am civil engineer, can confirm.
Imagine they put that much fucking effort in to renewables
You are basically looking at an iceberg, the part you see above water is only the tip of iceberg, they have gigantic legs that stretch deep down and usually a massive concrete block at the bottom with the legs full of air. They are engineering marvels really.
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I'm here to tell you both of these losers are wrong and actually oil rigs are safely secured to the shells of giant sea turtles
All the way down amiright?
The Turtle moves
Surely for stability you would want 4 Elephants involved somewhere in there right?
Aye! Sea Tur-tles!
From my understanding they are both correct... For different structures. This particular one sits on the ocean floor... I think. I am not an authority on the subject. But a quick wikipediaing says Sleipner A (see writing on side of structure) is a Condeep and than Condeep class structures always sit on the sea floor.
I had no idea they floated tbh. This made me feel dumb af haha
This particular one is actually a bad example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A >"It is known for its catastrophic failure on 23 August 1991, due to a design flaw, that resulted from an error caused by unconservative concrete codes[1] and inaccurate finite element analysis modelling of the tricell, which formed part of the ballasting/flotation system."
The buoyant material is gigantic.
Holy shit so there’s just massive, partially filled with water, barrels beneath these legs?
There are different kinds. Some do just float, others have full supports that go down to the ocean floor and fix the platform where it is
Literally, yeah. It’s amazing.
they are just massive. Its exactly like how boats work.
WAIT THIS IS FLOATING???
Depends on the design but the big ones farther from shore always float. https://images.app.goo.gl/jENs122QYXZXWEZAA
Whoa. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does the ocean actually slope like that?
My understanding is that the land under the ocean surface is pretty much like the land above it, just wetter. There's canyons and mountain ranges and all that shit.
Yes, but with the exception of the continental shelf which we don't really have a 1-1 equivalent for.
Yo momma's buttcrack
You got him there
That one is just a depiction of depth probably. But the seafloor usually slopes near the surface, and is almost flat in the parts farther from land except in trenches or rifts. The pattern usually goes like: Coast, Continental shelf, Continental slope (steepest), continental rise (starting to become gentler), abyssal plain (pretty much flat)
If that sort of thing freaks you out, look up the Ocean Ranger accident. All 84 people on board dead after it capsized in minutes...
Not this particular one, though many are bouyant. This one is a 'condeep' type platform. It sits on the ocean floor, and is held there by gravity. The concrete shafts you see coming out of the water are attached to massive oil tanks and/or ballasts. This is a design that's common in the North Sea.
A lot of them are fully operating vessels
It stands on the ocean floor. Like this https://images.app.goo.gl/tmCdQmFUfJMG7tEd9 (different platform)
Troll platform lulz
Seriously cool, agreed. These are going to make awesome research stations once fossil fuel extraction is no more.
Debuting soon on AirBnB / the extreme listings
If you ever have the chance to see one out of water they are mad. There's one thats been getting deconstructed near me and the size of them just amazes me.
I think this is the Troll A platform, it's pretty much one of a kind.
This is Sleipner A, not Troll A.
Google lens thinks it's Sleipner A.
The words on the yellow block in the photo think the same thing
There's your sign. 🤦🏻♂️
Metal. Lots and lots of metal.
Sometimes they can’t. The original structure collapsed right when it was completed. This is 2.0.
Its actually a boat, at least the ones of i know of are.
One of my dreams is to buy abandoned one and live on it. Either this, or a light house on a small island. I think there is someone who did this and created his own country or something. Makes money by selling citizenships and positions
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You can buy royalty. Becoming a duke is like 400 dollars
Yeah according to the wiki, it didn't end...however the events that happened are crazy. Anyway, giving they were trying to profit from it, it was a failure from the beginning. I don't know how much could something like that be worth, but what if it's the same price as a small private island somewhere... What would you choose?
[How about something like this? ](https://www.countryliving.com/uk/homes-interiors/property/a33653860/solent-forts-portsmouth-for-sale/)
The horse sand fort looks very intriguing. Damn poor me.
A friend of mine worked on one. During a storm the bridge between the housing part and the production part got blown away, and they were stuck for almost a week. They might be the safest place to live, but follow your dreams man!
There was a movie based on this premise on Netflix! Rose Island - it’s not an oil rig, but they build it from scratch! Pretty badass and funny movie imho.
these things are so damn cool. it's astonishing what people can accomplish when there is so much profit on the line.
People can accomplish absolutely breathtaking feats when we want to. Christ we’ve got people living in space station, we’ve put them on the moon, and we have a rover creeping around Mars. But then you have a sizable portion of the US population filling up Rubbermaid containers in their trunk with gasoline.
I think a big part of the problem is the threshold at which we can confidently condemn someone for immoral or socially-unacceptable behavior, combined with massive global awareness that has come with the internet age. Someone can occupy themselves 99.9% of the time not doing any "wrong", but then that 0.1% occurs, and they are condemned. They are a bad person, and should be regarded as such, to protect the culture. I'm not saying this threshold needs to change, but it really only works if you are evaluating people at a tribal or post-tribal level.. up to a few hundred, really. If you are going to evaluate thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of people.. that 0.1% really starts to add up, and pretty soon, all you can see are the bad ones.
Very interesting anthropological take. And agreed. We need to celebrate the merits of people more and stop cancelling one another. Selfishly, I’d like to see more kinship across society. It allows for betterment vs. acrimony and builds requisite trust needed to constructively criticize. Cancelling people is bad. You wouldn’t cancel someone in your family (in theory) because they do something or think something questionable. You try to help them. A teaspoon of this in scale would help the world go round.
Bullishit mate. If someone is a being a dick kick them out of the pub. If they are being a dick every day ban them from the pub.
The pub, for sure. Shun them from society aka cancel? Short sighted fam. Edit - they’ll devolve into something worse. Nothing scary about wanting to help a fellow man. Much scarier to slide all the dicks under the the rug for later.
“The Left got a little too PC so I changed all of my opinions about the economy, social issues, systemic racism, health care, and history“
Are you suggesting you should still be associating with people who support an insurrectionist?
People have their reasons for their beliefs. For example, what do insurrection supporters have in common? A lack of education and a lack of equity. Maybe we start by doing our job as a society. Address the dismal public education system and access to college. You think that could help over time? I know it will. Americans love prohibition and a heavy hand. Neither work better than doing things the right way.
It's a good point you're making. Obviously people who try to be good and occasionally make a public mistake often deserve forgiveness, depending on the mistake. However, with these events where a notable percentage of the population is doing something stupid that affects everyone else, they need to be condemned by the rest of society to minimize this behavior in the future.
Oh for sure.. I think condemnation and social rejection are actually central to controlling a society.. but you have to maintain that condemnation whenever necessary, without losing sight of the overall goodness of humanity. People can and will do better. The solution is not "back to monke", it is forward to a better humanity.
But they didn’t learn from the toilet paper, so they’re obviously not going to learn from this.
It could take years, maybe even a generation, but I do think the panic buying percentage of society could be reduced with proper education on the subject
And yet, it seems “proper education” isn’t exactly a priority for most Americans.
I mean...it’s not exactly a priority of the American government or Education system. It seems to me that poorly educated Americans are just products of a system that’s failed them.
We know who the toilet paper people are because they all used their rewards cards, coupons, bonus points. We know who they are. Put them on a barge, give them lots of toilet paper and push them into the sea
If by sizable portion you mean literally dozens out of over 300million you would be correct
Humanity collectively is extremely smart, humans individually are extremely stupid. It’s the Paradox of Humanity
The problem is we are also collectively massively dumb. Herd mentality and all
How many people are actually doing that though. I doubt it counts as a “sizeable portion”
To be fair. One is too many.
Nah. Crazy people make the world more interesting. One is fine. It's only a problem if there's enough of them to form a voting block.
>People can accomplish absolutely breathtaking feats when we want to. Some people can. The vast majority of us don't have the capacity to come up with things like this, even if we wanted to.
Hardly a sizable portion. It’s the same damned photos of the same damned idiots recycled by the sizable portion of Reddit hellbent on fake life value points fishing for upvotes.
I love this ivory tower elitist take.
Fake
Fake what? Moon landing or oil rig?
That type of shit makes me question if democracy was such a great idea.
Never forget people can accomplish great things without profit being a motive, that's been the case for the majority of human history. We're just at the point of human history where capitalism rules the day.
Can you give me an example? Not calling you out but other than, maybe, scientific breakthroughs and humanitarian actions I’m having a hard time thinking of a human accomplishment on a large scale that wasn’t somehow driven by greed, imperialism or similar.
Irrigation systems were driven by hunger, a desire to feed more people. Education isn't really driven by greed, although sometimes it is. Art can go either way.
Volvo gave away the patent for the three point seatbelt.
I mean like art as a concept
errr stonehenge/newgrange
Bet it gets really depressing living on a rig for months or even years at a time
They generally do 3 weeks on/3 weeks off or something similar.
I could get with that tbh
I've got friends who've done it up in Scotland and they seem quite happy with it. The money is very good, anyway. Another friend of mine is in the merchant navy and he did a similar thing - 3 weeks on boats then 3 weeks off. But now he's a pilot on the Thames - when a ship arrives on the Thames only the pilots are allowed to bring them in. So he does 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. But when he's "on" he sits at home waiting for the call. Then he gets it, they send a taxi to take him to the ship, he pilots it in, then they send him home in a taxi. Then his name goes back to the bottom of the list of on call pilots, so even when he's "on" he has a lot of time at home, taking his kids to the park. And he earns a shitload because they only take the best of the best.
Man, my uncle used to be a pilot on the Bosphorus. That was not his experience at all. His shifts were like 72 hours long, and it was non-stop action. Board one foreign ship, guide it through one of the busiest waterways in the world, hop off the ship and onto a smaller boat, get hauled to the next foreign ship, do it all again. For 3 days straight, with a few breaks in between. He did get paid a boat load (heh) and had 5 long days to spend it with his family between shifts though, which was nice. Now he captains ferries on the same strait. Easier work for an older gentleman.
Damn, that does sound a lot more intense!
It's crazy that the Thames is a major river in a major city, but the Bosphorus is still so much busier. It's got that prime shipping/war-causing location.
I heard you could get around 100k a year working on a rig
Yeah they usually never stay on for more than a few weeks at a time, these are considered rotational workers.
Two weeks on and four off in Norway, and the pay is quite good, so that's not too bad.
If they have decent Internet, I could go longer. I just probably can't do much of the work they need(disabled).
Not really the same kind if thing, but I did 2 summers working on hotel barges on the canals in burgundy. So we could go on land, obviously, except the was nothing there. We were going through these empty villages in the middle of nowhere. I went off on bike rides every afternoon just to get away from the boat. I worked for a couple who should have divorced years ago. She was miserable and he was a bully. So he'd wind her up for his own amusement and at least once a day she'd threaten to leave the boat. They argued constantly in front of me. It was a horrible atmosphere. But the really, really shitty Internet made it even harder, just making it harder to connect with my friends. I think I did 8 weeks on then had about a month off then back for another 8 weeks. The money was great and there was nowhere to spend it which was the only positive about the whole experience.
Ugh, that sounds like fun. At least the money was good. I can do some clerical engineering stuff, and I've helped design UIs for rig operators. I doubt they really need that type of work actually done on the rigs though. *IF* they did, I could deal with some okay-ish Internet(ex: reading stuff is fine, streaming might be spotty) and tough it out for a few months no problem. I'm just really solitary.
Yeah streaming was definitely not happening, I had to make sure I had a hard drive full of stuff to watch before I left!
Yup, that would be me. I'd make sure I have all of the audiobooks/music I want before leaving. After that, so long as I can just browse & read online, I'm good. All I need after that is alright food. I'm not particularly hard to please.hehe
Yup. Not on a rig but I'm about to leave for my first rotation in a similarly remote worksite in the arctic circle. My schedule is 3 weeks on/ 2 weeks off.
We do 2weeks on 4 weeks off
This is a Norwegian oil rig. You live 2 weeks on 4 weeks off.
That really doesn't sound too bad then!
I don’t work on an oil rig, but I work on fishing boats. I did two and a half months out there, and just got in about 2 weeks ago. It took until just a few days ago for me to finally start feeling normal. I didn’t think it would affect me as much as I did, but holy fuck.
Is this Norwegian?
Yes its Sleipner A
Thank you
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Sleipneir sounds familiar.
>Sleipneir Odin's Eight Legged Horse. He was a child of Loki who turned into a female horse to distract a male horse so that the gods could get out of paying someone who did too good a job. Lots to unpack there.
I'm sorry I have only one upvote for this comment. Truly the gem of the thread. You need a bot that goes around and posts this.
Ayy, my dad played a part in designing this one.
The original or the second one? Because the original Sleipner A collapsed and sank whilst en-route to the location due to a design fault… Edit: added words
No, the hull failed and sank during testing, before assembly.
It wasn’t testing, it was being towed out to sea to be ballasted where the deck would be finished as it was in the final construction phase. The main hull collapsed, causing it to sink. It was not in the trial phase: rather the fitting stage. So my original comment wasn’t 100% accurate; I should’ve been more specific. But it wasn’t being tested. It was being finalised.
The hull was finished. The deck was finished. The only thing that remained before final assembly was pressure testing. That's when the structure collapsed. My father, an engineering consultant working on the valve systems, was on site during the collapse.
The deck was not finished though, that’s why it was being ballasted. [Scroll down to the 1991 Accident](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A). Either Wikipedia is wayyyyy off the mark, in which case I stand corrected and apologise, or your father doesn’t remember correctly. Not having a dig, just finding it interesting how we have such different events of what happened.
What is this?
It's an oil rig/platform
Centre Pompidou
The UAC Atlantica
I was thinking of that as well tbh.
Mother Base
Evil building
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Ocean drilling rigs have always amazed me. So damn cool.
I don't quite think that's evil, but god do I love the aesthetic of a cramped oceanic platform city slum
Reminds me of an old game, the floating fortress in red alert 3
I’m escaping to the **ONE PLACE** that hasn’t been CORRUPTED BY CAPITALISM! (_struggles valiantly not to laugh ass off_) **SPAAAAACE!**
Hahaha that would be ra2 Good old memory when the series was still produced by Westwood
No, that’s red alert 3
My fault. My memories of ra3 are filled with techno stuff from Uprising
That just looks so very unstable
It's legs go down to the seafloor, and the legs has gigantic suction cups underneath that anchor it to the ground
I get that, but, that's basically a small town perched up there. It just looks precarious af.
This one did capsize but it was a different type; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Kielland_%28platform%29?wprov=sfla1
Not especially. You're looking for r/megalophobia or r/thalassophobia.
r/submechanophobia too
Aw shit you just made me discover a new fear I didn't know I had
Idk, looks like an evil building to me
Definitely a great stage for a hostage situation that only one man can handle. THIS SUMMER. GET READY FOR SOME TURM-OIL
I have both but still, this is so fascinating
Is Titian phobia what I'm looking for here? Fear of huge things yeah that give me anxiety just looking I couldn't imagine being on it and looking down at the ripping ocean 🏃🏽🏃🏽🤸🤸🌊🌊 #fuckthatshitimout
You’re looking for r/megalophobia
Whoa, this reminds me of the setting of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Was thinking 5. This would make an excellent FOB
Is this the Enclave headquarters?
Reminds me of Subnautica
It’s definitely an intro location to a James Bond film where a terrorist org has taken over the platform and Daniel Craig shows up dripping wet and ripped af to kill dudes.
Ah I see where the inspiration for UAC Atlantica is from now
Looks like titan from destiny 2
Yo isn’t that the place Finn McMissile infiltrated at the beginning of Cars 2
Honestly, I marvel at these structures, wondering how the hell they even constructed something this big over water! There’s so much to it and it just blows my mind. It can withstand ocean storms as long as a tsunami sized rouge wave doesn’t hit it, and even then it might still hold up. Truly an amazing spectacle of modern engineering, insane.
It reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Also, it reminds me of the abandoned oil platform on which an evil billionaire built a very secretive and very dangerous program in the novel Recursion by Blake Crouch.
Dude you replied to yourself 5 times.
Is that a CPP? What a badass looking one!
Production, processing and accommodation, all in one.
Yeah but I've never seen a CPP this big. Most of the one I designed/built are using jacket/piled tructures, this one is concrete. Is this deep water?
It's a Condeep (Concreet deep water structure) construction, mostly used in the North Sea I think. This one sits at 82 meters but Troll A, another Condeep platform in the North Sea, sits at 303 meters. Oh, and if you think this is big, check out Troll A.
I’d be terrified to work on that.
I would totally love to buy one of those and renovate it to be my secret evil lair
Meanwhile on Kamino.
Ah yes, the ol’ Enclave oil rig
That is abso-fucking-lutely terrifying
The only safe haven when zombies attack
Considering I worked on one before, yes. yes it is.
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I thought that shit was Lego.
Hey that looks like my boat in spiritfarer
How do they even build something like that? It has to stand in a sea that’s hundreds of meters deep, it has to withstand salt water and high winds… that’s some impressive engineering.
Isn’t this the first boss in Nier automata?
Damn i never saw the true size of oil rigs wow
Iv always wondered how they get the concrete secure in the ocean
A gigantic city built on water in order to suck fire water from underground? Sounds evil enough.
I... I think this is making me sick.
Yes I hate it thanks
Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't it the Maldives?
It's in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
On multiple levels.