re: UPDATE 265 Class Liftboat capsizes . New survivor story. Page 77

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I'm getting more and more pissed off that this isn't major national news.

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Front page on NPR.

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Fox has been hitting it every hour.

No one is giving updates, what do you want them to report on?

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Barely on Fox / CNN websites

I mean, it's not even a sticky...

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I received video of a life capsule floating around ST-37 block. Not sure if related but it is in the area. Video sent to me via fb messenger Bonus Video of Lieutenant Dan

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What ever became of the life capsule?! The other video from the dude on the work boat said they had rescued some folks.
Was the life capsule ever located? Was anyone in it?

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I can almost guarantee that they are stuck on bottom, probably the starboard side of the hull as well.

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I agree. 250’ legs and I believe the boat width is 100’+. In only 55ish of water... water wind and waves are powerful, hence the situation they’re in. Fingers crossed it stays as it is!

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The guy rescued from that boat off Nigeria was over 100 feet below the surface IIRC. So it can be done.

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I just read the account from the guy in Nigeria. My lord, how horrific. This is what the article said about the rescue itself:

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Divers broke into the ship and Okene saw light from a head torch of someone swimming along the passageway past the room.

“I went into the water and tapped him. I was waving my hands and he was shocked,” Okene said, his relief still visible.

He thought he was at the bottom of the sea, although the company says it was 30 metres below. The diving team fitted Okene with an oxygen mask, diver’s suit and helmet and he reached the surface at 19:32, more than 60 hours after the ship sank, he says.

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Reuters

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Anyway, I assume they are in communication so it may be as simple as cutting through from the surface.

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Very well could be. Hopefully they can rescue these guys ASAP.

I wonder where the L/B Robert and Jill are right now. They both have 500 ton cranes.

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Divers broke into the ship and Okene saw light from a head torch of someone swimming along the passageway past the room.

“I went into the water and tapped him. I was waving my hands and he was shocked,” Okene said, his relief still visible.

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I bet that diver shite his wetsuit.

That story is insane.

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It doesn’t take much for the waves to prevent you from going on the bottom deck to the galley. Those boats are not made for rough seas.

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I've been on enough of them also. I've seen 3ft of water on the deck from waves. Nobody is dumb enough to try to walk the deck during that. Especially with equipment all over the deck.

I've been in some dangerous situations with weather out there and I have to say I don't miss that shite at all. I wasn't terrified because I've worked out there for years but it can get nerve wracking.

I used to work on hydraulic workover units and snubbing units and I surveyed offshore doing site clearance and deep water surveying with ROV. There's very few lift boats in the Gom that I haven't worked on. Hell, very few vessels at all in the Gom I haven't been on. Been in the worst weather possible, tropical storms, hurricanes all of it.

Norwegians told me they've been in the North Sea and never saw water as rough as the GOM. I should have joined the CG.

I've done vessel to vessel transfers in the worst weather and it sucks. Watching grown men that you know are terrified but don't have a choice if they want to go home. Women out there wondering how they are going to cross over. I'd tell them just watch me, once I get across I'll walk you through it and grab you. Swing ropes off platforms I've done a few times. Getting soaked because waves are crashing everwhere. I've spent almost 20 years out there and I had enough. The weather could be shite but that's not what bothered me. It was that I was stranded out there too many times. frick that water and the prison of being offshore.

I've seen some shite and been in some shite. People getting hurt, died, weather, and the idiots that have never even seen the Gulf making all the decisions from a desk. Good luck to those that still do it. I had enough but I don't fault anyone for doing it.

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Absolutely they will retrieve it.

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Harder than you think if consistent bad weather. The raising becomes so costly that as long as there are no contaminants on board and if it does not cause navigation issues then it may likely be towed to deepwater and sunk.

When you swing rope and you watch the boat drop down and then rise and the props come out of the water just a few yards in front of you is crazy and exhilarating. Then the boat drops away and you swing out from the platform, hoping you swing out far enough to end up over the boat. Timing is everything.