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Comment by Mike Wolfe on January 8, 2010 at 6:43pm

I was witness to exactly the same incident around 1996 on McDermott's DB 16. We lost a three pile jacket with 1 pile in it and one conductor stabbed in it in 200 FSW. Lots of diving to fix a mess like that. We jetted down 36 feet to get to straight pipe on the conductor. Then they broke the boom off the crane on the DB 16 when we were getting ready to re-install the same jacket. This all can be avoided if the barge crew just installs some hawsers and Yokohama buoys to support the jacket against the barge. The cause of our incident at McD was a very hard crust about 3' thick over very soupy mud on bottom. The first pile broke the crust and that corner just started to sink.

Comment by James Sizemore on January 8, 2010 at 3:42pm

Buddies of mine from CalDive where on an OTIS jackup in the GOM in Feb, it was cold and the seas were pounding at 12+, winds at 26 knots, gusting to likely 70mph, then were heard the distress call, they were in the water upside down within a few minutes. Evacutation Plan, they had none, life jackets and in their pjs, cold, freezing, hanging on for dear life. We were aboard the Pipeliner Barges 3, 5 & 7 at times in the GOM and often went on weather, tow, lost tow and drifted dangerously toward fixed and jackup rigs! Hello! Lets let the deck hand man the wheel while everyone else is in the galley playing some crazy loose all your money cajun card game!

Comment by Bill Gardner on January 8, 2010 at 3:34pm

Geez-I dunno. I looked and there it was-gone!!

Comment by James Sizemore on January 8, 2010 at 1:15pm

Right Mike, "We need a diver in the water" - a common phrase I heard offshore!

Comment by James Sizemore on January 8, 2010 at 1:15pm

Duh, what were they thinking with two pilings leaning - the weight of the pilings probably exceeded the gross weight of the jacket! Common sense or just plain dumb?!

Comment by michael knight on April 25, 2009 at 4:13am

Holy sinking platform batman!!!!! Time to get wet and bring it back up!!!!

Comment by Doug Newts on March 27, 2009 at 1:08pm

Holy crap...