Diving on the Oil Rigs...

[outlawaggie]

Don't know if the practice persists........but a number of years ago I was at the dock after a boat trip when another boat came back from fishing near an Oil rig off the coast west of Newport Beach California. The boat was covered, I mean covered, all over with a nasty mixture of drilling mud and what appeared to be crude oil.

They had been fishing near a platform and the platform crew used a high pressure hose to wash off the top deck.....

Seems there was a less than friendly competition with a commercial party boat for a "favorite" position down wind of the platform. Seems the party boat operator was the "approved" guest of the platform operator and anybody else risked getting "hosed".

These days the EPA would probably lock up the platform operator, but it's wise to remember that !!@#$!@#$ happens, sometimes by design.


cheers,

ch

I have to say Thank God I'm from the South. Here in the Gulf It's not uncommon for the rig workers to point where the fish are. I've even had a worker come down a fish off the rig while we were next to it and talk to us. I've never even heard of an event like you describe here in the Gulf.

 

[cool_hardware52]

True story outlaw, just part of good old Southern (California) hospitality.

Even as a broke 16 year old I was smart enough not to sign on to help clean the boat. Those poor devils were scrubbing that tub for weeks, then they had to refinish (sand) the teak decks, nasty, nasty!


ch

 

[wrongkey]

I have to say Thank God I'm from the South. Here in the Gulf It's not uncommon for the rig workers to point where the fish are. I've even had a worker come down a fish off the rig while we were next to it and talk to us. I've never even heard of an event like you describe here in the Gulf.

And likewise, we've pointed out to the rig workers who were fishing on their off-time where the fish were. I've just not seen the hostility.