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

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All Cardinal employees are being brought in off their jobs in the GOM. Two found and two still missing. I don’t know about the other companies. Hoping for a miracle!

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Only 2? The news had it much higher just now.

Not everybody on the boat was a Cardinal employee

Seeing the 4 missing workers families from Acadiana interviewed on Ch 3 and they have been giving no information they say. I don’t know how they can be left in the dark 36 hours into their loved ones missing. The offshore companies need to let them know something.

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Seeing the 4 missing workers families from Acadiana interviewed on Ch 3 and they have been giving no information they say. I don’t know how they can be left in the dark 36 hours into their loved ones missing. The offshore companies need to let them know something

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I can't be the only one thinking:

"Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water

And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters"

Prayers for them all.

I hope the remaining missing are found alive.
That being said, this thread has brought out the real baws.

Thanks to Covid and layoffs I’m out of that mess.

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The way the families sound they have been told zero so far.

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I'm fairly certain that they have been told their loved ones are missing and the search continues. What else would you like them to say?

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Don’t they pull those legs for inspections and repairs?

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Pulling the legs out is a long process, the legs go all the way to the bottom of the pad and are welded to the btm of the pad and the gusset all around on the inside of the pad. There is a ladder on the inside of the leg with several internal landings. There is also a stiffener that runs the legnth of the leg on the backside of the gear. You could climb down through the leg and inspect the inside. To inspect the outside I guess you would put it in deep water and jack it up and have the inspector check it out from the top of the leg towers.


Pulling a leg out requires it to be dry docked, cut the legs at the pontoons and have a crane big enough to lift them out. When we spliced the legs on the LB Jill and Robert they were in 3 pieces, the last piece we had our 2 biggest cranes on 1 spreader bar to lift it in place.

My only time riding the basket was in high seas. Wasn't cool. Rather a helicopter ride

Yeah it’s by far the safest way to travel up to the rig and quite enjoyable