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

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I’m not normally a conspiracy theorist, but wtf is happening here?

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highly doubtful there are any survivors, why risk more loss of like unnecessarily?

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We had a poster say he was in the area and the current is ripping.

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But the deckhand here said just because it is ripping on the surface doesn’t mean it is like that deeper.

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Yea especially when they’re also paying for a coil unit at the time. Every hour that ticks by you’re burning through cash. The pressure obviously mounted unfortunately. Such a sad situation and a good reminder

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Was there a coil unit on board? If so, do you know who’s unit?

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But the deckhand here said just because it is ripping on the surface doesn’t mean it is like that deeper.

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If you are going to make fun of what I said then at least get it right.

What I said was that the surface weather didn’t necessarily relate to the conditions 50 ft down. It was in response to wind and rain, not in response to actual currents. I was saying that just because it was windy, rain, and bad seas did not necessarily mean it was unsafe to dive. If the dive boats are hindered by wind that’s a different story as in this case with the boat being sticking out of the water and not just something they could anchor over.

We performed a lot of joint ops when I was offshore flying ROV’s with the divers. We basically were used as a mule/tool carrier and power supply for them.

Until you’ve seen 1st hand what goes on subsea, you can’t imagine it. Those divers have balls like you can’t imagine. It’s about this time of year the loop current in the gulf gets itself in gear.

Not sure if it effects the shallow water stuff as much, but in the deep water we’d have to go up current a couple of miles at times. Set the boat up to drift, launch the sub, and drift with it so we could overcome the current, and basically “land” where we needed to be.

I can 100% promise you that those on-site are doing everything they can to get to those inside.. However if you try sending divers in the water in shitty conditions, you will just be pulling out more bodies.

They are doing everything they can.

ETA: I can promise you they are forcing the divers, and support crews to stand down... when it’s some of your own, you will put yourself at risk, bc you know if the situation was reversed, they’d be doing the same for you.

One of the first things you are taught in water survival is to not go back in to rescue.. they will drill this into you every chance they can. Unfortunately it falls on deaf ears. Any of us offshore, that worked in the industry would try our best to get people out...

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small DP-2

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For those that don’t understand this type of lingo. DP stand for directional positioning. You have multiple classes of dp. A dp-2 boat can hold position within a few feet if the com-pacs/ radio transmitters that are anchored to the seabed are in place along with gps.

DP-3 means they basically have back up equipment + an entirely separate bridge in place in case the primary bridge gets taken out.

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The Seacor Brave is a small DP-2 supply boat. It’s gonna hold position just fine in this weather. I’ve never worked with human divers though, just ROVs. I’m sure it’s probably extremely difficult to dive with the way the current was running this morning

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Does the Brave have a stern thruster? I can’t imagine they are doing live boat diving off the brave.

There must be some smaller boats on location they are diving off of.


The Brave is just there for housing the rescue and divers. Set up as a command center

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Cardinal

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Damn I know some baws there. No coil hands on the boat? I know they sometimes ride the boat out and try to get some of the rig up knocked out.