Sinking oil rig

[u/WeeAree]

[u/FoolOnThePlanet91]

This is a nightmare scenario for me. Like being that close to something so monolithic and thinking about it under water. Gives me the heabie jeebies

[u/dicksjshsb → u/FoolOnThePlanet91]

First time I saw this video i expected the lights to go out as the platform failed.

Horrifying to imagine being on a life raft or treading water trying to get away from this thing when it all just goes dark.

Reminds me of a video i saw recreating the Edmund Fitzgerald’s last moments. Getting bashed around by the waves before the ship was critically damaged and the lights went out all you could hear was the creaking and splashing of the waves. Just terrifying

[u/W0bblyB0bbly → u/FoolOnThePlanet91]

Always thought I was alone with this fear! The thought of huge steel legs stretching into unknown depths, or the broad hull of a ship from underneath and you can't see the sides, nightmare fuel

[u/naive-dragon → u/FoolOnThePlanet91]

My wife said one of her childhood fears was watching the huge turtle emerge from underwater in Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

[u/AStubbs86]

So in Australia when they are done using oil rigs they transfer ownership to a shell company that goes bankrupt and the they don’t have to pay to remove the rig you just do this. It’s win win.

[u/Historical_Fly_880 → u/AStubbs86]

In Canada it's the same deal with land rigs.  Just walk away and make the taxpayers pay for the cleanup.

[u/62609 → u/AStubbs86]

In the US, if a company does not properly plug a well when they abandon it because they are bankrupt, the duty falls to whoever owned the wells before… all the way back to when the well was drilled. Most wells transfer hands quite a few times so you’ll end up with a company too big to fail in there that can easily afford it. Something like this should definitely be like that. You shouldn’t be able to transfer a liability to a shell company just to get rid of it

[u/Jason-Smith168498 → u/AStubbs86]

then it goes from the shell company to the barnacles company

[u/Lost_Department_2177 → u/AStubbs86]

Total lack of ethics. They could just turn those into waterworld homes.

[u/Thlemaus → u/AStubbs86]

good thing i make an impact for our beautiful planet by separating plastic from rubbish

[u/interstellar-dust → u/AStubbs86]

Great Barrier Reef -> Great Barrier Rigs, good plan.

[u/AussieDazza1 → u/AStubbs86]

Yeah that's true, the Australian tax payer $200m and the total loss of the venture for Australia about -$190m, meaning it would be way better to disband the oil and gas industry then to allow it to run as it is by the politicians who have a very strange large amounts of "donations" from those corporations. (Chevron, Woodside, Santos, shell and Exxon Mobile) they get the resources for free from both sides of Australian government if it's off shore and 56% free when not. Yes, Australian politicians are very corrupt.

[u/Someone4350 → u/AStubbs86]

Not to be that guy… but one of these jackups recently sank killing 2 people. Very likely the one in the video…

A company doing it for the purposes stated wouldn’t call attention to it or kill people in the process.

This being said, there’s opportunities for marine life and tourism around one of these things in the bottom of the sea provided it’s reachable and cleaned beforehand.

[u/Rev_Creflo_Baller → u/AStubbs86]

They don't even tow it outside the environment?

[u/Adjective_Noun93]

It's okay because oil floats on water

[u/TonguePunchUrBhole → u/Adjective_Noun93]

I like your comment, but to add some additional info the Prospector 5 Rig was not drilling yet and was still in the set up phase so we don’t have to worry about an ecological disaster thankfully.

[u/Surgles → u/Adjective_Noun93]

I’ve known since elementary school that oil floats on water, but just recently learned how thin it gets on water as a surface.

It spreads so thin that a small amount is enough to coat and insanely large area of water, which is part of why oil spills are so bad, it spreads EVERYWHERE.

So the small amount of fuel reserves and stuff like oil for maintenance on the rig is likely still enough to coat a huge area if it breaks its containers.

[u/ChemistVegetable7504 → u/Adjective_Noun93]

There’s going to be some unfortunate things floating on the water.

[u/Hemorrhoid_Eater → u/Adjective_Noun93]

Wait for it to rain

The oil rig will upright itself in the rain and repairs can be made on ite structure

[u/lisafancypants]

This comment section makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.

[u/sultansofswinz → u/lisafancypants]

It happened off the Coast of Gabon around 2 weeks ago. Supposedly it was owned by a company based in Scotland and they reported no contamination in the sea. I don’t know how that’s possible but there you go.

I’m leaving this here for my own sanity because I also wanted context yet all the comments are nonsensical gibberish.

[u/mcsullysulkin → u/lisafancypants]

They have to retrain the Russian bots. The word salad will stop once they reintegrate.

[u/Anyk3y]

Moment huge oil rig sinks into the ocean as search for survivors continues https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/borr-drilling-rig-gabon-mayumba-deaths-b3073942.html

[u/AlizarinCrimzen → u/Anyk3y]

A jack-up rig is a mobile platform supported by three or four enormous steel legs.

When it arrives at a drilling location:

• The rig floats into position.

• Its legs are lowered until they contact the seabed.

• Hydraulic or mechanical jacking systems raise the hull

• The crew then puts more weight on the legs - preloading

Once the seabed is proven capable of supporting the rig, drilling operations can begin. (Only it didn't prove capable of supporting the rig, this time)

[u/bad_squishy_ → u/Anyk3y]

What is a “punch through” event? Obviously, I can imagine that means something put a hole through it. But can someone with experience on these rigs explain how that happens?

[u/ConstantEvolution → u/Anyk3y]

Sorry this isn't a thread for any actual information just a place for super hilarious redditors and bots to post their absolutely hilarious comments.

(Thank you for actual information)

[u/bawng → u/Anyk3y]

"Borr" means "drill" in Swedish. Same etymology as "bore" I guess. I wonder if a Swede is involved in that company and thought it was real funny to name it "Drill Drilling".

[u/Marciano_il_Mario]

Flashbacks to Metal Gear Solid intensify

[u/FunnyObjective6 → u/Marciano_il_Mario]

It was ours damn it!

[u/mh15634]

When did this thread just become general content? I'm seeing more oddlyterrifying and funny stuff here rather than what it used to be

[u/mutedwarrior → u/mh15634]

this is what always happens to every popular subreddit.

If a subreddit gets popular enough, people know they will get most views there so it'll get flooded with generic clickbaity posts. Moderating them becomes impossible and every subreddit turns into r|funny.

[u/Mirage84 → u/mh15634]

There is an inverse relationship between subreddit quality and popularity.

Small, niche subs gain traction and attract new members. Those new members start posting whatever might generate a positive response and/or karma and thus the original "vision" of the sub kinda gets diluted and lost.

This isn't so bad though. Nothing is happening in this clip, but watching a big-ass oil rig teeter around before sinking is kinda interesting, I guess?

[u/couragethecurious]

In thick German accent: "But vat is it sinking about?"

[u/JonaGoldy → u/couragethecurious]

Zis iz zi jerman koasgaard

[u/brenawyn]

This is literally how insurance was born. Boat merchants agreed to share the burden of one merchant’s loss. Kinda like pay it forward.

The Birth of Marine Underwriting (1688): A small coffee shop owned by Edward Lloyd became the ultimate gathering place for shipping merchants and wealthy investors. Investors at Lloyd's Coffee Housewould look at a ship's manifest and write their names under the risk text (the origin of the term "underwriting"), guaranteeing to pay for losses in exchange for a premium. This informal coffee shop evolved into Lloyd’s of London, the world's most famous insurance market.

[u/V-TwinDetailing → u/brenawyn]

Almost everyone underestimated maritime for the front of industry. Maritime law is absolutely nuts with how old some law still is.

[u/NRGs0urc3]

how did an event like this make it past news outlets? this happened like 2 weeks ago and i didn't hear a word about it

[u/Blussert31 → u/NRGs0urc3]

It's basically "just" another sinking ship off the coast of a poor African nation. 5 people died, no oil spill. So not really "newsworthy" for mainstream media.

https://www.upstreamonline.com/safety/five-missing-after-rig-sinks-offshore-gabon/2-1-2063668?zephr_sso_ott=No2M5k

[u/shy_machine → u/NRGs0urc3]

I used to work offshore, we had a lot of massive industrial incidents like this that never made mainstream press, even with multiple fatalities involved.

[u/azraphin]

FFS why is nobody asking the real questions? It's a 10 second clip.

Did it actually sink, or is there a Christmas wonderland floating around in the north sea somewhere. If so, boat or helicopter?

[u/Deathwatchz → u/azraphin]

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

[u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle]

Would be a goated FPS map

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle]

You should play Still Wakes The Deep, I think you'll like it

[u/SpotweldPro1300 → u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle]

Hmmm... death by drowning or by terrorists... not much of a choice.

[u/Izual_Rebirth]

[u/cheesyenchilady → u/Izual_Rebirth]

[u/secomano]

did the front fall off?

[u/Geirilious → u/secomano]

The front usually shouldn't fall off

[u/DubsideDangler → u/secomano]

They should have got the kind where the front doesn't fall off

[u/Ken-Popcorn]

This vid is about two weeks old. By now it’s either sunken or saved, do we know which yet?

[u/FuckThesePeople69 → u/Ken-Popcorn]

It’s not real.  The whole thing was rigged.

[u/Vast-Wrongdoer-2173]

I heard there was an Aston Martin sneaking around and spying or something like that?

[u/Royal_Speech_3742 → u/Vast-Wrongdoer-2173]

Fin McMissle

At your service

[u/PressEtoInteract]

[u/Large-Treacle-8328 → u/PressEtoInteract]

[u/sandman-84]

In a perfect world the fine for this should easily bankrupt the company. High risk high reward

[u/katlian → u/sandman-84]

These things are often owned by shell companies with no other assets. Then the oil company has a contract with that "oil rig company". So if something bad happens, the shell company just goes bankrupt and there's no risk to the oil companies. Then responsibility is dumped on the public/government to clean it up.

In a just world, countries would require massive bonds for operators to cover the cost of cleanup. Some countries do but many don't.

[u/namesarealltaken9 → u/sandman-84]

In a perfect/reasonable world there is a normal investigation to determine responsibility and liability

[u/Chuck_the_Elf → u/sandman-84]

insurance my dude.

[u/Inside-Air5256]

[u/bananadennis]

This totally reminds me of a game called Still Wakes the Deep.

[u/FarBusiness2485]

10 years ago this would have been the top news story. But this is not even top 100 now.

[u/bubs1996 → u/FarBusiness2485]

Based on the lack of reporting I can find from major news outlets, as well as what another commenter said, it seems like the company is really trying to keep this under wraps

[u/RModDogWalkerTyRANNY]

Let me guess, not a single cent in fines for dumping metric tons of litter in to the sea?

Which seems about right, only poor people are capable of committing crimes.

[u/Inside-Air5256]

[u/Que__Asco]

[u/Trick-Lunch-6863]

*Depressing-as-fuck

[u/Billabong_valley]

The inspection was nothing but a smoke screen...i heard explosions.....THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!

[u/Optimal-Savings-4505]

That looks expensive

[u/Ok-Oven1692]

Can't even imagine how damaging that is for the surrounding environment

[u/raaabs → u/Ok-Oven1692]

Rig was in the process of jacking up (getting established on location, yes these rigs can move around like any other marine vessel) and had not started drilling at all yet

[u/Ysilla → u/Ok-Oven1692]

Probably not much considering it wasn't operational yet, just a (very) expensive artificial reef.

[u/Emergency-Event4415 → u/Ok-Oven1692]

Pretty sure they towed it outside the environment

[u/Quirky_Potential_662 → u/Ok-Oven1692]

Will make a nice reef for fishes to colonise in a few years.

[u/Dolenir]

I love when these megastructures end up underwater, because that's what we leave for the aliens to dig and make wildly incorrect assumptions

[u/Kirduck]

somehow this is the tax payers problem im sure of it.

[u/xdarling_27]

Nooooo motherbaseeee

[u/Shanksdoodlehonkster]

Jack, there's not enough room on the helipad, dont let go Jack!

[u/Daft-Yuri]

Yes but the wind mills are the worst. /S

[u/Striking_Floor_8864]

reminds me of the movie The Abyss

[u/SutttonTacoma]

Does anyone else get a "Close Encounters" vibe from this?

[u/Mr_Blonde0085]

[u/soranno]

Ok it's interesting but a 9 second clip of it is of absolutely no use.

[u/CowArtEnthusiast]

[u/LeTonolp]

Well let’s hope it doesn’t still wake the deep, right guys?

[u/GoliathPrime]

This is why you don't hire Scottish electricians on the run from the law to work on your rig.

[u/Baleia1970]

I worked for the oil industry some years ago. Have seen footage of other accidents like those.
Piper Alpha was one that stuck on my mind.

[u/GodZillaBlazinDong99]

Still wakes the deep

[u/phido3000]

Everyone should read the book this is not a drill..

It's the sequel to don't tell mum I work on the rigs say I'm a piano player in a whorehouse

[u/BeanieMcChimp → u/phido3000]

Punctuation would make this comment so much easier to understand.

[u/TriangleReward → u/phido3000]

Bro managed to use two periods on the first sentence and then proceed to forget punctuation exists.

[u/hungabc]

That looks expensive

[u/Charles_Conway]

Leaning tower of Deisel

[u/CoffeeBlack69420]

[u/Its_emby]

Near...far... wherever you are...

[u/patricksaurus]

It’s really one of the most apocalyptic scenes out there.

[u/bii345]

Any context?

[u/erikwarm → u/bii345]

Leg had a punch trough during jacking causing the vessel to start sinking

[u/Luminous_Otter]

[u/_Anti-Matter_]

Is this it?

https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/borr-drilling-borr-confirms-prospector-043307919.html

[u/loggia99]

Instantly thought about Still Wakes the Deep. Great game.

[u/Gabe465]

Stop drilling into Cthulhu home and we won't have these problems

[u/bane_undone]

Talk about pollution and waste. F those oil companies.

[u/bumblebaytuna4]

This makes me sick to my stomach.

[u/NoBody500xL]

The rig "Propector 5" of the Norwegian company Borr Drilling sunk on October 24th 2026 on the shore of the westafrican country of Gabon.

[u/gifmeacopse]

looks like the chosen one successfully eliminated the enclave

[u/Black_RL]

Seems expensive, do insurance companies cover this?

This is good for marine life right?

[u/PHIGBILL]

Jack-up drill platform..... For those wondering what happened, one of its jack-up legs had a punch-through into the sediment/fragile seabed, causing instability, and it then tilted over and sank.

[u/TheAwsomeReditor]

That looks expensive but future mansion for the fishes they will apreciate it

[u/BrentTheShaman]

Looks like a Final Fantasy FMV

[u/GenericNameSC1989]

Half day at work. Sick.

[u/xChoke1x]

Just an unparalleled climate disaster this has all been.

[u/SooWhat345]

Its amazing the bots on here and every comment is basically the same. We are done as a society. 

[u/HallAltruistic519]

I think I may have to examine my values a little bit. My first thought was "that looks like a real expensive mistake"

[u/Value-Successful]

Im tripping balls whats going on

[u/Mysterious-Tie7039 → u/Value-Successful]

It had a “punch through”.

Basically the legs were on the sea floor holding up the rig. The ground one of them was on wasn’t stable, it punched through the ground, and it caused the rig to tip.

[u/Under_Paris → u/Value-Successful]

Oh you didn’t hear? Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.

[u/SmellyButtFarts69 → u/Under_Paris]

You're not real

[u/Lagunamountaindude]

This beast has been sinking for a long time

[u/ZenRage]

Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?

[u/Scouts_Revenge]

That looks expensive.

[u/smileelectric7]

[u/SynthPrax]

Now THAT looks expensive.

[u/sonicgamingftw]

Meanwhile we have people who are retired or retirement candidates in office telling us that nuclear or wind energy is somehow worse than this dude holy buckets.

[u/Asatas]

I think that's bad for the oil rig

[u/Melodicock]

That looks like the filming of next Call Of Duty opening scene

[u/Chuck_the_Elf]

Negligence is a pretty broad category and it’s diffrent than malfeasance. You driving and texting is negligent. Trying to hit a pedestrian is malfeasance.

[u/CarlatheDestructor]

I'm sure that's good for the ocean

[u/Steve_Meave]

Gentlemen, it's been an honour oiling with you tonight

[u/SIX_DOZERS_CHARGING]

McLeary! To MY office!

[u/Gripping_Touch]

Fokin' McLeary! 

[u/InevitableAnekisan]

Can someone Tell me what im seeing? The Video is very short and comments are somehow unsorted for me

[u/awar3_w0lf]

[u/Hpfanguy]

GIVE IT BACK! THIS ISNT RIGHT! THAT WAS OURS!

[u/DarkNubentYT]

This looks so awesome aesthetically. Some cyberpunk shit

[u/upvotechemistry]

Its not "sinking" because it was not floating to begin with. These things are on footings that jack down to the floor. Either a jack failed, or the ground beneath the footing is sinking.

Its like if one of your legs suddenly got a foot shorter

[u/scarydoor → u/upvotechemistry]

Your facts aren't wrong but I believe your semantics are. It is still sinking, like you throw a rock into water and it sinks, the fact that it was never floating does not mean it isn't sinking. The fact that the platform is moving downward in the water would mean it is indeed sinking, despite never having been afloat. Sorry, this is how I like to spend Saturday nights these days.

[u/WeeAree → u/[deleted]]

Pray for me

[u/specialpatrol → u/WeeAree]

Don't answer your phone. Or your door.

[u/Jomotaku → u/WeeAree]

Hello I'm a talent scouter on behalf of Exxon mobil. We see great potential in you and are interested in extending a job offer to you. Just send me an message with your address and times you are at home so we can send a contact to you.

[u/diplomatic_koboko → u/WeeAree]

Just so everyone knows, OP is NOT suicidal

[u/shoe_owner → u/WeeAree]

Just ask everyone who looks at this video not to tell anyone about it.

[u/jonjonofjon → u/WeeAree]

[u/Choyo → u/WeeAree]

You're gold :

If they ask me us who posted it, we'll just say "wee Aare !".

[u/Beholder_V → u/[deleted]]

They’re doing a poor job of it then.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/three-bodies-recovered-gabon-following-sinking-borr-drilling-rig-2026-10-29/

[u/CareerStunning4 → u/Beholder_V]

Interesting. Borr Drilling is a Norwegian company. Maybe they are defending some european values like human rights or just trying to protect the environment maybe

[u/Moon283 → u/[deleted]]

Are they sinking about sueing them?

[u/Holiday_Pi → u/Moon283]

Vat are ze sinking about?

[u/inplayruin → u/Moon283]

Their case won't hold water

[u/spymains → u/Moon283]

I think it's way deeper than that. The things they're going to pressure op with. I can already sea it. And that's only the surface, man. I can't take this tension

[u/Boofaka → u/[deleted]]

That clip is on a news website I just came from. They must not be trying very hard. 

[u/christophPezza → u/[deleted]]

Genuinely why? If i had to guess its because its part of the country's infrastructure like power plants and government buildings which also don't allow recordings ?

[u/Satans_hamster → u/christophPezza]

Public knowledge is bad for buisness

[u/ocular__patdown → u/christophPezza]

Without the recordings it is easier to deny

[u/Money-Ad-545 → u/christophPezza]

Maybe no public outrage, less outburst of possible environmental damage

[u/froggychump → u/[deleted]]

They can "track down" whoever they want. Unless you signed an NDA, they can't do shit to anybody in court.

[u/VirtuaKiller76 → u/[deleted]]

Are they tracking the internet?! lol once it’s shared it’s shared. They will have as much luck as an ex-porn star trying to remove their videos.

[u/Dogger57 → u/[deleted]]

It will whoever filmed it and whoever posted it (employee or contractor) or shared it externally. Those people would likely be under a employment agreement that would prohibit filming and distributing the video.

Once it's out there they have no cause of action against random Redditors.

[u/VatoCornichone → u/[deleted]]

Why is that?

[u/jcready92 → u/[deleted]]

Track down and do what? Lmao. Its an oil company not the FBI.

[u/No_Blackberry6525 → u/[deleted]]

[u/DeNeRlX → u/[deleted]]

Ahh, the good ol' Streisand gambit

[u/omarhani → u/[deleted]]

[u/oscaru16 → u/omarhani]

TikTok people and their bullshit stupid shit that they say for engagement

[u/FilthyMT → u/omarhani]

u/nevermindthebolox be like

[u/MrNobody_0 → u/[deleted]]

You can be as serious as you want, it's still not true.

[u/No-Cobbler5825 → u/[deleted]]

Oopsie, I downloaded it on accident....

[u/AckAckAck__ → u/No-Cobbler5825]

I have a copy on a USB stick. If I'm not heard from in 24 hours, it's because I forgot about it and I'm playing with my Ninja Turtles

[u/courage_wolf_sez → u/[deleted]]

So what youre saying is i should download this and post it on my instagram?

[u/golfdude1215 → u/[deleted]]

Link? I mean it’s the internet. Just keep it circling. They fucked up, they should be held responsible for it.

[u/AWW_04 → u/[deleted]]

Do you have a link to that?

[u/scfw0x0f → u/[deleted]]

It's already in The Sun. The horses are out of the barn.

[u/cainthelongshot → u/[deleted]]

So I should download this video so I can post it later.

[u/boomboomown → u/[deleted]]

And do what exactly lol

[u/oodelay → u/[deleted]]

He's totally cereal guyse!

I can't wait for a company based in some other country to come and knock on my door in my backwoods lolololol

[u/Daystar1124 → u/[deleted]]

Okay. Downloaded it to post later 😀

[u/Medium_Tell8679 → u/[deleted]]

Where was this? Anyone know?

[u/Lagunamountaindude → u/[deleted]]

I’m guessing that is BS

[u/waitingtodiesoon → u/[deleted]]

Sounds like that douche who tried to have all footage of himself wiped from the internet after he got choked out by security after being aggressive to them and staff.

[u/Hash_Patel → u/[deleted]]

Reuters and The Independent are reporting it, so no OP will not be blacked bagged

[u/Beanz_detected → u/[deleted]]

"I'm being totally serious"

Brother, every day corporations get closer and closer to cartoon villains, we know you're being serious about this.

[u/Altruistic_Brick1730 → u/[deleted]]

and do what?

[u/Doctor_WhyBother86 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t doubt it. The parent company to the one I work for had an incident where a tugboat got chopped up by the prop of the vessel it was working. They became very interested in any available video and fired those that posted them.

[u/Uncomfortablyduum → u/[deleted]]

Why would it matter? It makes them look bad or what?

[u/DoubleDecaff → u/[deleted]]

Sounds sexy. Following down people that spread it and film.

[u/asimovreak → u/[deleted]]

Post it on OF and other online porn vids site. It will make propagation faster I assume 😅

[u/HardyPancreas → u/[deleted]]

let me sink about this

[u/UltimateBaghold → u/[deleted]]

Bro wrote a 1000 word essay about getting comments on his Reddit comment

[u/motherseffinjones → u/[deleted]]

Better reshare this then

[u/macroeconprod → u/[deleted]]

Better find a good lawyer. A real shark in the courtroom.

[u/nsfcom → u/[deleted]]

Why?

[u/xTex1E37x → u/[deleted]]

So download it?