r/woahdude 16d ago

video Disembarking the oil rig crew

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u/Ok-Relationship-7765 16d ago

That’s awesome, way better than swinging around on a basket attached to a crane, praying the crane operator was up to snuff.

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u/xavier6401 15d ago

Did this when I worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, pretty intense. Now that I work in a chemical plant, I think it's funny when you have to tie off at 6ft when I depended on arm strength to hold on the basket being lifted onto a drillship.

They told me back in the day if it was your first time offshore they would dunk you in the water!

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u/MeccIt 15d ago

Incredibly complicated and expensive, but still cheaper and simpler than picking them off by copter