Offshore at South Pass
June 28th, 2006 by James
Last week I was working offshore as the “person in charge” of their small South Pass platform. It’s an itty bitty little platform, so we didn’t have much room to stretch out, but it’s in a great location near the mouth of the Mississippi River. I saw freeswimming Mahi Mahi fish, huge schools of jacks, and we even had a visit from a loggerhead turtle. We were performing a pipeline pressure test, and I had a standby vessel and a small helicopter to help me with logistics. It was a fun project, we we had a few “challenges” I had to work through, like when our generator broke down at 4am…
Our home away from home - a “trailer park” offshore :-), our standby vessel and helicopter
A 30″ flange, how we get on and off the platform - by crane! A view of the Louisiana swamp from the helicopter
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