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"gonefishiing" wrote in message
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maybe i don't have the experience to pass judgement on this, but shouldn't
the capt. have exercised some prudence in positioning his ship in relation
to a beam sea?



"Joe" wrote in message
om...
"gonefishiing" wrote in message
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A 220 foot supply vessel the Point Barrow.
Working off Port Mansfield TX. We were backing up to a drilling rig
with side seas. A wave came over deck and took me over the side. It
was in a real cold time of the year. I had on a Navy P coat,T shirt,
flannel **** and foul weather suit and shorts. All the air trapped in
my clothes kept me bouyant.
Luckly the Capt saw me go over and took the engines out of gear. I
clawed myself back to the side and grabbed the deck. My lungs were
full of water so I could not yell. The boat was rocking so much it
would yank me out of the water about 12 ffet then dunk me again. That
went on a few time until the others on deck saw me hanging there. The
pulled me up on deck and we finished tying up to the rig. As soon as I
started walking back to the cabin both the 4" samson braid hausers off
the stern going to the rig broke. On the way back to the dock in the
jetties of Port Mansfield the waves were so bad that we slammed bottom
on a sandbar. When we got back to the dock I quit. Did not go back
offshore in the oilfield until I had my 100 ton ocean operators
ticket. I'd had enough of working on deck.

Joe




"Joe" wrote in message
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"Bart Senior"

Anyone else have any good falling in stories?


I fell of a 50 ft utility boat once while it was underway, nothing
hurt and the water was warm.

A bad falling over story, before I meet my wife she worked on
shrimp
boats.
Two boats were tied together about 100 miles offshore. One of the
crew
members fell between the boats and had his leg squished off. USCG
flew
him in and he lived...

I got washed over once in the gulf. 11 ft seas. First thing I knew
I
was slamming into the strut just in front of a 72" propellor. My
life
flashed before my eyes!


Joe

"gonefishiing" wrote in message ...
maybe i don't have the experience to pass judgement on this, but shouldn't
the capt. have exercised some prudence in positioning his ship in relation
to a beam sea?

Well this was a drilling rig and they were shut down due to having no
drill water. There is usually only one side of the rig to pump off on.
The gulf in that area is to deep to anchor.. 380ft, so you attach your
bow to whats called a backdown bouy and then stern lines from each
side of the stern go to the rig, dropped down by a crane, its a 3
point mooring system. Takes around 5 hours to pump off all the fluids
and remove drill pipe and other gear. In 11 foot seas to try to just
hold 500 tons of boat for that long is just to dangerious, you risk
going side seas into the rig and knocking it over and killing everyone
onboard. This was a Jack up rig.

Here is what a supply boat looks like
http://www.hibernia.ca/images/pg_12.jpg
As you can see the deck when loaded are usually awash.

Here is a small supply boat offloading at a production platform
http://www.moc.noaa.gov/gu/visitor/gu0303/rigboat.jpg

Not a tricky as a Jack Up Rig.

Joe






"Joe" wrote in message
om...
"gonefishiing" wrote in message
...
A 220 foot supply vessel the Point Barrow.
Working off Port Mansfield TX. We were backing up to a drilling rig
with side seas. A wave came over deck and took me over the side. It
was in a real cold time of the year. I had on a Navy P coat,T shirt,
flannel **** and foul weather suit and shorts. All the air trapped in
my clothes kept me bouyant.
Luckly the Capt saw me go over and took the engines out of gear. I
clawed myself back to the side and grabbed the deck. My lungs were
full of water so I could not yell. The boat was rocking so much it
would yank me out of the water about 12 ffet then dunk me again. That
went on a few time until the others on deck saw me hanging there. The
pulled me up on deck and we finished tying up to the rig. As soon as I
started walking back to the cabin both the 4" samson braid hausers off
the stern going to the rig broke. On the way back to the dock in the
jetties of Port Mansfield the waves were so bad that we slammed bottom
on a sandbar. When we got back to the dock I quit. Did not go back
offshore in the oilfield until I had my 100 ton ocean operators
ticket. I'd had enough of working on deck.

Joe




"Joe" wrote in message
om...
"Bart Senior"

Anyone else have any good falling in stories?


I fell of a 50 ft utility boat once while it was underway, nothing
hurt and the water was warm.

A bad falling over story, before I meet my wife she worked on shrimp
boats.
Two boats were tied together about 100 miles offshore. One of the crew
members fell between the boats and had his leg squished off. USCG flew
him in and he lived...

I got washed over once in the gulf. 11 ft seas. First thing I knew I
was slamming into the strut just in front of a 72" propellor. My life
flashed before my eyes!


Joe

I spit my chewing gum off the flight deck of the USS Harry Truman. It fell a
long ways before it hit the water.
Scout

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
news
It was bound to happen eventually. I've given
people detailed briefings on how to get on and
off the boat, but no one seems to listen much.

Climbing on board ECHO over the stern has
been a bit of a challenge. I have the knack for
it, but others, newbies, have had problems.

It involves grasping the rail in two places, placing a
foot on the sloped transom and bringing the other
leg up. The reverse is similar, only the leg is
stretched from the top flat area of the transom
to the dock.

Yesterday, I had my the first victim. I need to
video tape these things in the future.

A lady friend was trying to get off the boat. Instead
of putting her foot on the portion of the dock closest
to the boat, she angled it out some. I was just about
to say something when she slipped and hung from
the pushpit for a brief moment, and then "PLOP"
into the drink.

I hate to think that, less than a second was the longest
she could hold on in an emergency.

Fortunately the tide, which a rare intervals leaves
debris along the dock, had swept the area clear
and the water was very warm and relatively clean.

I hauled her onto the dock, with my double
wrist grip, and she was somewhat embarassed
but no worse for the wear. I will get many years
of laughs thinking about that one.

I've never fallen in, although I have done my share
of freaky dances climbing into and out of dinghy's
in the past.

Anyone else have any good falling in stories?