Tangentially related but if anyone likes sea horror, here’s one about a mining rig, specifically one that uses pontoons.
Truth is… the oil was rigged from the start.
After the joke I still had to look it up. There are two types: towers and floaters.
The tower rigs are built in shallow water on a seabed foundation (like a building) and can reach heights of 200+ feet above sea level with 60-100 feet of the tower submerged.
The floating ones are only 30-60 feet above sea level and 60-100 feet of mostly pontoons below (like an iceberg) and are further stabilized using cables or computer-controlled thrusters.
So my guess is the one in the photo is a tower one, but that may not be rig(ht).
Here’s a video explaining it. Watching the ocean rise around the rig is quite the sight.
Well, that was a painful watch. Constant overly dramatic music and sound effects, surprisingly little actual engineering talk, the same handful of B-roll shots and transitions over and over again, Shell executives patting themselves on the back. And the same “they had to turn to the past” for every challenge they encountered…
The editing felt like I was watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, not an engineering documentary.
46 minutes? 😮
Pop your adderal and shutup.
Unnecessary bullying
It probably feels like bullying because it was in direct response to you, but his comment was actually funny & harmless, don’t take it personally. Yes Adderall would be extremely helpful to aid anyone to sit through such a long documentary about something we just want a quick answer to 😆
It’s not unnecessary, either get your attention span in check, or learn how to skip through long form information on your own. We weren’t all raised on tiktok.
Float Caissons out, sink them and pump the water out? It is how they work on bridges.
They launch it into orbit and then let gravity do the rest, just have to make sure nobody is on board when they drop it otherwise it’s a nightmare to clean up and they serve just Bolognese for a few days.
