Huge waves crash against swaying North Sea oil rig
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This video could make you seasick...Huge waves crash against a swaying oil rig, as a severe storm which swept across parts of Scotland hits the North Sea. The footage of the Borgholm Dolphin installation was captured at the weekend by James Eaton, an offshore worker on the nearby Lomond Platform, around 145 miles east of Aberdeen.
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The Vikings crossed these waters over 1000 years ago in wooden ships. Terrifying.
i know how it feels like , in Assassin creed 4 black flag lol
Jake Kennedy Noah and his family were in a wooden ark when the world flooded 4400 years ago.
Maybe in your head
Any Vikings encountering waves like this weren't coming home again to tell about it. Neither was anybody else in a wooden ship
Which is why most Vikings didn't try crossing the North Sea in the fall, winter and start of the spring. I'm a Dane. No one fucks around with the North Sea.
I would be crapping myself. God those people earn their money.
Ikr
They make 72k a year, that's a lot don't get me wrong, but not enough
@@gerald_.. Ya decent money but for the danger and isolation and the money the corporations are making, you are right. Not enough.
@@gerald_.. wow I thought they’d be making at least 100,000 + 😳
@@gerald_.. more like 52k these days
Thinking about how much money in oil must be down there for it to be more than worth building something like that...blows me away.
Billions billions
This is just a production platform, they also make offshore drilling rigs
@@MRDERD300 hi this is actually a flotel..... Its basically just a floating hotel , that is used to hook up to other platforms / jack up drillers when extra personnel is needed and they haven't the capabilities . It provides cabins , catering , laundry , & leisure facilities for workers offshore. I've been on this particular one a few time its called the Borgholm dolphin and when I was on it it was out in the North Sea out of Aberdeen Scotland about 8 year ago or so .
@@georgemcmillan928 that would answer my question why this platform is moving...
@@georgemcmillan928 Can these flotels capsize? Doesn't look too safe. Probably wouldn't want to put one in the sea of Japan.
Wow, the feeling this ignites in me is so specific and yet I cannot really describe it. It's like a combination of fear, awe, love, and respect all at once and still that's not exactly it. The vastness and power of the sea is beyond words for me.
Maybe the word "sublime" describes what u feel? It means "beautiful and terrifying at the same time"
Punk
Okay
its just a wave fuck up
@@allxrtx6594 okay
Watching the waves and realizing how huge they are is terrifying
Yeah my anexity goes throw the roof from those small waves from the beach's
Poseidon did it
@@foxworthall1 Kids don't need to have anxiety turn off your internet and smartphone and go outside play some soccer and hook up with girls around
This is why we can never "conquer" the ocean. We can only try to manage the effects of her anger...
6 years comment
This vid should be the benchmark for youtube. No lame commentary or crap music. Just the video and audio played for us to enjoy. Well done!!
For sure!
this is what RUclips is truly for "You" = videos you make, not productions
@@nafnaf0 yes. watch offshore "sun rise for jobo jobo"
I prefer having a whiny American newsreader talking over the whole thing. I can't be expected to form my own opinions, I need to be told what to think.
Can you please shut up?
I didn't realise these things floated
Not all of them, of course. Building a fixed platform is economically feasible up even 520 meters. Semi-submersible platforms, however, can be moved from one place to an other because of their floating design. These rigs can drill in waters up to 3000 meters deep.
Marton Havas Thanks Marton. Impressive stuff
Drilling rigs tend to be semi subs (floating) or jack up, where as fixed platforms tend to be production, but there are many other options from drill ships to FPSOs etc :)
The one in this IS NOT an oilrig as the title says but a flotel, a floating hotel, used for large jobs where the accommodation is not big enough for the work force. The walk way over is the black structure top left at the top of the red tower. They 'stand off' when the weather is bad, otherwise the walk way would be snapped to bits.
Here is one from the Safe Caledonia standing off a fixed platform, the Dunbar, East of Shetlands. It is similar to what you are viewing here but in reverse :)
+5hanes Nor me! ...assumed they were solid structures. There was a serious storn in the North Sea about 1987 or 8, and oil rigs were breaing loose from their moorings, so I suppose that was one which floated?. My brother and dad had to cross the North Sea to buy a jeep that night from Holland..I was worried, but the ship still sailed.
Oh yes, they have to. These rigs work on the same principles as high rise buildings...they sway as well, as much as 4 metres either way depending on the height of the building.
The fact that humans created this in a crazy environment shows how amazing we are and we just started space exploration… imagine 1000 years from now the things we would be doing.
finding more genders or more covid variants yayyy
@@tigrehermano omg 🤣. You mean creating more genders?
Oil will run out way before that
We aren't amazing but God is.
Won’t be a 1000 yrs
Not an oil rig. It’s an accommodation vessel, or “flotel”. They sure are fun to sleep on in a storm....
yup
I've never seen this live with my own eyes.
I have always loved the storms. Where I live we get a hurricane or tropical depression. But I've only seen it on land.
I'm older now and think I would have liked to see that as a younger man.
Thanks for the tip. It didn't look like an oil rig, didn't know what it was. 👍
Rod Bruce - it’s as good as an oil rig to the population, although you’re correct
Yep! I can remember using this vessel in the seventies when it lost all its anchors in a force 10. It is standard practice to ballast the vessel down to stabilise it but the waves do make a bit of a bang on its bottom!
Are you referring to the Ocean Viking which lost anchor in the North Sea? I don’t think this is her. Ps my father was the company man onboard during the incident.
It appears to be an accomodation vessel (Flotel) for Oil Rig workers and is normally hooked up to a Drilling Platform which is sunk into the sea bed. In rough weather it will lift its bridge and endeavour to stay on the lee side of the Platform - and return when things cool down.
If I’m reading the male correctly it’s the Borgsten Dolphin. I stayed on this during refurb works being carried out on the Dunbar platform. Your description is spot on.
Oil rig - "looks like another beautiful day"
Ocean - "hold my water"
I probably would have been impressed had I not seen Interstellar.
AkeemDenim LOL
There are some jobs that I would be prepared to do , working on a platform such as this is not for me .. hats off to all that are brave enough
This isn’t the worst part of the job. It’s your colleagues that make it unbearable.
They make 20-35 K a year that’s enough motivation for me
@@quan111314 if you know how to “ play the system “ in the U.K. then you can make just as much sat at home all day , sad but true
And every penny well earned...
Well the people on oil rigs earn a lot more then the sailors! And think about sailing in these waves.
I'm pretty sure people that become sailors anticipate rough water. At least I would hope so.
@@omviken98 depends on the type of ship. There is actually ship based oil production too.
Considering the sea always photographs flatter than it is, it must have been pretty gnarly
The Borgholm Dolphin was the last flotel I worked on, my final trip as part of the catering crew was in june 1994 I worked 5 years in the North Sea, it never leaves you
When you say it never leaves you do you mean in a positive or negative way
@@rokanza2293 I love the North Sea I mean in a positive way…the whole life at sea thing and me were at one…
@@rokanza2293 A positive way, I loved the years I spent offshore, and I made some lifelong buddies. I even learned how to cook. 😃
@@robertryanclark2637 Can these flotels capsize?
@@brad144k The semi-submersible “flotel” (floating hotel) Alexander L. Kielland capsized on 27 March 1980 while bridge connected to the steel jacket Ekofisk Edda platform. The flotel lost one of its five legs in severe gale force winds, but not an extreme storm.
Absolutely scary, serene and surreal - at the same time.
We all here from that tiktok
LMFAOO YES
YES😭
Yep
yea 😟
YES HAHAH
Wow! I'm not sure what's more impressive: those giant seas or the oil rig that keeps functioning through them.
Think of how much that damn thing weighs and how little those waves care... The ocean is scary
don’t mind me. just here from tiktok 🤣
Same sis lol
Same lol
whats tik tok
@@ThePhilkid its that clock that goes tik tok tik tok tik tok, I don't even know what it is dude I was born 1978 , I say that because we didn't really have nothing but made the most of it and it was mint times the 80s and 90s, all technology now mate its defo took over and theres more to come, godbless you keep safe,
Was onboard when this was taken, sleeping off a night shift got to sleep no problem.
Hilary Morrison I’d be sick as a dog,,
Wow!! You are one brave girl Hilary.
What does it take to get a job on a rig or flotel?
@@visionist7 A bout of insanity I would think.
Hi Hilary, my name is Kerry. I'd love to hear more about your offshore experience for a BBC doc I am working on right now. Let me know if you might be interested. Thanks! production@sonjahenrici.com
Shout out to the awesome engineers that designed the platform.
I was sleepy and now i can't sleep. Awe of the sea is beyond words for me.
I would love to sit in my little unicorn dinghy and float around out there
Till it flipped you over and the ocean eats you!
No actually you would not. Really
Not much floating plenty of drowning.
I have a rubber with a dingy in it to keep us safe
Looks fun, don't forget the lifejackets.
here from tiktok
No one asked
what
The amount of unused wave energy is immense
I would need to be sedated.
Worked on something similar, the Treasure Finder , North Sea Brent Field
you all deserve more money........thank you for taking on the risk, i wish i could do it
They make 6 figures. And, I'm talking about the lowly oil drillers themselves. Many other jobs deserve more money not this.
BewareTheIdes why, putting their lives at true risk so you can have oil and gas isent enough to live good?
BewareTheIdes I take it you don't work offshore then as you have fuck all idea about the salary! Roustabouts might only earn £36000 on some companies. A steward earns the same. Even electricians earnings vary from £58000 on some platforms. I know as I was that sparky! In fact I head back to the metal death trap in 6 hours
Intersting Feeds they earn a lot more than £36000.
S.G I think you need to work offshore as I do numb nuts. Grade A steward offshore will earn under the COTA AGREEMENT around £35000 per annum. That is 2018 wages.
You are a typical know it all having obviously never worked offshore. Why not just zip it and comment on something you know about?
'Dear mum, I am fine out here.... AAAAAAAAHHHHH!
PS: Send money.'
You wake up on that thing and just say to yourself, "its going to be one of those days..."
Try working on a trawler boat :( and I'm a girl too, was shit scary
Last hitch. I swear...
@@kadiebeex yeah they go way out into sea, don't sound fun
And you go to bed like "It's going to be one of those nights"...
Repeat this as you wish
imagine being in an office that shouldn't move but is rocking back and fourth like crazy.
It's amazing that it can stand the huge waves at the same time I was also amazed by the power of water
I spent 30 stretches on a floating rig called The Mel. 90 miles off the coast of Intercoastal City Louisiana in the early 80s
Watching this right now in a similar semi sub at North Sea, however, the weather is way calmer...
Northern producer?
My anxiety is kicking in and I’m watching this on a phone in my nice warm bed
The waves look like moving mountain ranges
To think, we men created these massive rigs to get that petroleum out of the ground in the most terrifying environment all across the world. To all the guys from Alberta to Antarctica. From Texas to Africa. Hats off to you! Thank you for making this world go around…
At 0:38 there is a brave seagull on the lower left hand corner and brave people on that rig. Archimedes would love to have seen his principle of floatation being applied
That bird is just HANGING TEN!! Without a care.
Archimedes would have probably said screw this get me out of here.
Its "NOT" an oil rig its a Flotel that accommodates the men working on Oil or gas platforms that are being sited, refurbished or just carrying out general upgrades required on the Oil or Gas Platforms which have limited accommodation and cant cater for the number of men required so these Flotel's tie up alongside the rig and the additional men sleep & eat on these and get to the rigs (platforms) by use of the movable bridge seen on the top left hand side of this Flotel.
Thanks. That would explain why it's floating.
The pig - for lifting cakes and pies aboard for the lads to eat.
How does it keep from being pushed into the oil rig
@@joshharry7881 Flotels frequently have full workshop facilities to assist with the construction/refurbishment tasks they are supporting.
@@guardrail2897 Several anchors from the four corners.
Well, I used to live near the North Sea, in Norway. This just looks like very rough seas and swells, but I don't see huge waves.
How bout NO! Proper respect to anyone who can handle working on that, looks absolutely terrifying to me.
Natures way of saying "leave"
Natural Birds ASMR yup you can say that again!!
That's a nope from me, dawg.
They always have a Sci-Fi feel about them when moving around like that!
Worked preparing for the hotel rig to be towed to Turkey for scrap,, it was converted into an accommodation and was fully functional even all the tools needed to maintain the systems to run it all went gave a place of employment and the safe place to rest,, for a lot of people in the many years it functioned for,, owned by dolphin drilling, great show case for the engineering that it was over 30 years old and stood the test off time in harsh environments,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️from Belfast Northern Ireland,,,
Crazy that like a 50-70 foot difference from top and bottom of one wave. Being land locked i forget how powerful the ocean really is.
Won’t ever have to remind me to never go on one of those things
who came from that guys tik tok and wanted to find out more 😂😂
LMFAOO ME
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I wonder where the guy filming this is standing? 🤔
On a oil rig that doesn't sway, lol,
On a Brent Field Platform
People:Is Just A Floating Oil rig
William Crammond: ...
Ocean is either a blessing or a curse.i am so scared of oceans
Its the Borgholm Dolphin.It's a flotel. It's got about six anchors which it can use to pull itself away from the oil rig it's connected to with it's bridge.
because the North Sea was so rough.I was on it years ago over Christmas. At one point the waves were crashing up through the large open space between the accommodation block and the helipad the .
It wasn't to bad in bad weather, you just had to get used to rolling from one side to the other or head to toe in your bed at night.
I never felt at risk.
Brave man!
Be cool if Modern Warfare 3’s oil rig map had implemented this...
First one, though we only see the end of it, is a MONSTER
Think the dropner(?) platform has two with a laser beam between the two for monitoring safety movements between them. It actually measured 90+ foot wave that came through and broke the beam. That was how they knew the height of the wave.
I would love to spend the night in the middle of the ocean while its lightly raining, its semi warm out, and the waves are crazy
u came here from tiktok
Respect die menssen daar werke
Watching this from the safety of Illinois, 932' above sea level...breathing a sigh of relief.
The legend of the Illinois enema bandit
how is it still standing .... amazing .... why doesn't it break or collapse ?
Because they float.
Je suis an oil rig.
haha
Je suis the ocean.
Finishing an 18 hour shift on the rig and trying to get some sleep be like…
How in the heck can a platform even be constructed in that is beyond me?!!!
It's floating.
White men build such stuff.. Enjoy the result 😏
Karen Dixon it was built on land then transported to that location you can thank me later 😉🤗
They're built on shore and towed out there
Legend has it, these rigs are held down by the weight of the balls of people living there
A couple of a hundred years ago people were rowing in 29ft opened boats against waves like that. It makes me feel like a wimping hand-bag!
what is the camera filming this on? a nimbus cloud?
Probably a Helicopter. These storms can get far worse. This one had a break in the clouds at the time of this video being filmed, so it wasn't a terribly bad one. I'm a Dane. Most of our weather is at the mercy of the North Seas winter storms.
stephen powell 😂🤣🤣
Imagine falling overboard in that🤣 not even a helicopter could see you drowning in that
Terrifying. Is it actually anchored to the bottom of the sea somehow, or is it floating? And how does it not tip over?
It's bolted to huge concrete blocks which as just sunk to the sea bed. They are not fixed to the ground, just resting on it.
I have been there in the Frigg field in gail windforce 11 and wavehight approx. 20 m.
Is it moving or is it just the illusion it is because of the wave moving?
The sea is terrifying
It was a drilling oil modified to accomodation rig. I worked on that rig formerly named pride south seas in south Africa
It’s the Borgholm Dolphin, I was on it when this was filmed. It was an accommodation barge, and a shite one at that, never been a driller in its life.
@@inwestvalinorbornandraisedaye it has. It was launched as Polyglomar Driller and converted to a flotel later.
@@stevec8243 sure you’re not thinking about the byford?
@@inwestvalinorbornandraised nope. Borgholm was Polyglomar Driller and became the Polymariner when it was converted to a flotel. Was renamed Borgholm Dolphin early 2000's.
@@stevec8243 fair
The footage is phenomenal. The waves are humongous and frightening yet powerless against that massive machine that rides on top of them care-free.
who’s coming from tiktok
I remember waves like that when I worked offshore in the late seventies / early eighties. They are an awesome sight, but not something to dwell on.
I misread North Sea as North Korea. Xd
One of my neighbours works on the oil rigs and to be honest that's not far enough away
I can relate
Michael fish told them it was going be a lovely day as well🤭
cousin leigh lol I hear ya
OIl Rig be like:
When marimba rhythms starts to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like the lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more
Is it supposed to sway like that??
Its not the sea doing that to the rig its all the workers inside partying there's that many workers wen there drunk and they sway so does the oil rig , lol,
Standard oil rigs are designed and engineered to resist waves that dont hit the deck, or better to say, the rig only rsists the wave if its only as high as the pillers.
Funny...a fossil fuel rig rocking with the waves, while humanity misses out on that massive clean green wave energy...
Oil is better for me
Well good luck setting up an energy collecting station in the middle of the ocean
Last years news, no one cares about the lies of climate change anymore.
Well, thank god finally, a North Sea video without that god-awful pirates of the caribbean song.
The bathophobia just hit me.
you must stink
The sea was angry that day..
Proud to be Mariner :)
From water line to Top of Oil rig is 70 feet and the waves are hitting the top EASILY. Those are HUGE WAVES
Two words, and the second word is 'that!'
That sort of sea scares me.
Not intended
انا في وجه الله
I used to work on this brings back found memories
Please don't break! :(
Sea : DO YOU WANT OIL? YOU MUST FIGHT THE FINAL BOSS
This is why men rule this world 🌎
BYOB561 lol you don’t know , all the women in your life probly hate you
@@jalisaalanaye1662 all the women in your life probly hate you, too.
t sam actually they love me , each and every one of them. But this is a beautiful video of how amazing and powerful the ocean is. that has nothing to do with men and women so you can stop now.
You triggered every feminist on this planet 👏👏
@@jalisaalanaye1662 a femanist ls a women who fight for women's and children's equality and the hate misogynist men. I said that because the Comment said this is why men rule the world and feminist hate Male dominance.
That rig looks like a toy in those waves. Mental, I panic if I put my head underwater in the bath
Hey! I have a diploma in Gender Studies or something and I work full time in a petrol station. Why don't I earn as much money as these STEM guys who are risking their lives everyday? #triggered #offended #oppressed
Scot Van Rice a man and a woman working in a petrol station should earn the same money just like a man and a woman doing the same job on an oil rig it’s not really complicated.
I’m surprised that these rigs don’t sink more often given the immense size of the balls all the guys have on there!