Oil Rigs Caught in Monster Waves

Oil Rigs Caught in Monster Waves

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[Krstinedprtz]

My Dad worked in off shore drilling. I remember him telling me about the vigorous training that he went through when he was young to qualify to work on those vessels. It sounded so intense. They basically have to be prepared to swim/drown/confined underwater spaces etc. And the ocean wasn't even the most dangerous parts, he crossed paths with militia in several countries, particularly in DRC Africa. I miss his stories. RIP Dad 🙏❤

[admiralcat]

Oil rigs is definitely where fear of heights and fear of the oceans collide. People who work here are super brave!

[thejamesinator]

My dad has been working on oil rigs for nearly 2 decades. I had no idea what he was dealing with out there. New respect earned.

[quentinlehmann]

As an oil rig myself i can reassure you that this is a pretty tense situation

[massabielle]

Still in awe of how these rigs are even built to begin with! Mad skills and brains!

[Alan..W]

Mad how the price of oil in the UK doubled because of the Ukraine war. Even madder to think we have 100's of oil rigs in the North Sea that belong to us in the UK ....

[angusscott-voiceactorprese]

I spent many months on several of those rigs, the Transocean Winner, Leader etc. as a rig mover. A winter in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea is fun. You can literally spend weeks waiting for the weather to calm sufficiently before you can put the rig on its new spot. It's more exciting on the anchor handlers, though. To sleep in your bunk, you have to sleep like a 'starfish' to stop yourself rolling out of bed. Not that anyone gets much sleep when it blows up... a few weeks of unbroken weather and everyone gets very snappy.

[alanj]

I worked in the North Sea for over 20 years, mainly on fixed platforms. 15 metre waves (~50 feet) were not rogue waves, they were not uncommon during storms. As for overtime for being delayed by bad weather - ha, ha, ha.

[karllove]

As a former merchant sailor who sailed the northsea often. The reason for those waves is because this sea is so shallow that waves rise up very quickly if the wind starts to blow.

[billwilkie]

I am an Australian who loved the sea in my younger days. The in my thirties I lived in London and only occasioally saw the ocean. I came back to Perth, West Aust, and my brother took me sailing in a 14 foot catamaran along the coast inside the reefs. In the course of this short sailing we had to avoid a couple of big sealions, several sharks of varying sizes and species, stingrays by the dozen, and various other, to my mind, malcious sea creatures.
I was scared out of my wits by what he considered a normal uninteresting sailing trip.
I was quite happy to return to London.And now years later I am quite happy to see these videos when I am 100km from the ocean and 60 km from the nearest permanent river and 250metres above sea level. I don't even eat seafood any more.

(For those interested it started at Whitford's Bay Yachting Club and ended in sheer terror for me. After that the slums of London held little fear for me.)
🦘🇦🇺

[CraigNiel]

What's more crazy is that over a thousand years ago the Vikings sailed across the North Sea in nothing more than wooden ships! Imagine being caught up in one of those storms in one of those ships!

[MarcelaR-dhok]

I had a two-year contract with Sedco in the 70s as a barge engineer trainee.
Of the three rigs I worked, two are on the ocean bottom...I worked the Sedco H, J, and the 135...which had a blowout that caused the largest oil spill in history...taking over one year to cap. I had moved on by that time though.

[lashonearl]

Much respect to all of the brave oil rig workers all over the world 🌎 Thank You for all that you

[cydkriletich]

I’ve always understood “rogue waves” to be not just big, but completely unexpected; waves that sneak up on you. The waves in this video are really spectacular! But, since they are coming one after another (which, as I understand it, is fairly common in The North Sea), they don’t fit the description that I’ve heard of true rogue waves. That last video of the sinking oil rig was spectacular! Just as well it fell apart then, rather than later when it would likely have been way out at sea. Amazing no one was lost! Thank you for this video.

[thegroovetube]

"To put that into perspective, that would be like standing next to the HOLLYWOOD sign in California." Thanks, that really helps. Everyone's done that.

[nslater]

Seriously, you guys have the best, most striking videos!

[superyamagucci]

I love that guy on the right at about 12:00. Everyone else is running around in a panic and I imagine he's just saying "Save your energy. Accept your fate."

[karllove]

I´ve been in 60 foot waves in the Greanland sea in winter. You really feel so small almost like an ant when Mother Nature shows her might.

[philbill]

Those were not rogue waves. Rogue waves have a different shape. Almost vertical and are often from a slightly different direction from the prevailing waves.

[kspen]

One rogue wave is enough. One after another I would be crying big time.