Tangentially related but if anyone likes sea horror, here’s one about a mining rig, specifically one that uses pontoons.
Truth is… the oil was rigged from the start.
After the joke I still had to look it up. There are two types: towers and floaters.
The tower rigs are built in shallow water on a seabed foundation (like a building) and can reach heights of 200+ feet above sea level with 60-100 feet of the tower submerged.
The floating ones are only 30-60 feet above sea level and 60-100 feet of mostly pontoons below (like an iceberg) and are further stabilized using cables or computer-controlled thrusters.
So my guess is the one in the photo is a tower one, but that may not be rig(ht).
Here’s a video explaining it. Watching the ocean rise around the rig is quite the sight.
46 minutes? 😮
