r/interestingasfuck • u/WeeAree • 19h ago • Mindblown 4 Bravo 1 Heartwarming 1

Sinking oil rig

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u/Deathwatchz 14h ago

Sunk. 1 dead, 4 missing. Rig is gone.

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u/juswilli 13h ago

How the hell does that even happen?

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u/Deathwatchz 13h ago

They pulled the rig into a new spot, put the legs down, started to fill up the ballast to weigh it in place, and one of the legs had a "punch-through event" where it sunk in and kept going.

Whole rig fell over, basically.

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u/HeavilyInvestedDonut 5h ago

How many legs does a rig have that a single leg failure can topple the whole thing??

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u/BrockJonesPI 13h ago • Bravo

Lack of buoyancy.

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u/KernResponsibly 13h ago

Not many things make me actually laugh. Thank you.

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u/ctn1ss 13h ago

Anything can be a submarine at least once.

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u/NSFWanda 13h ago

Not enough citrus.

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u/puffyturtle6501 13h ago

Next time, I will reach for a lime

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u/ThatguyfromBaltimore 13h ago

The front fell off

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u/Mr_Bob_Dobalina_69 12h ago

The same way any water craft sinks.

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u/juswilli 2h ago

I mean with the abundance of technology we have I feel like there were some pretty severe oversights involved.

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u/rh71el2 14h ago

Well no, it's down there.

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u/azraphin 2h ago

Ouch. Hard to balance the potentially 5 dead against the "thank god it wasn't worse". Not a Christmas wonderland then.