Thanks for watching.

I missed this by ONE day! My bunk at the main Ekofisk complex was needed, so I was transferred to the Keiland for a night to catch the early chopper to the beach and my flight back to the states. My GF picked me up and brought me home. She woke me up in the afternoon and told me to turn on the news. The network was carrying the story as Breaking News. I would later find I had lost several good friends in the incident. Requiscat In Pace, guys. You are sadly missed.

As a student welder I will tell you that it is very easy for weld defects to be missed, a welder might cover a slag pocket or use just slightly wrong amperage, usually for high stress applications you stack multiple welds together to make a big one, apparently here it wasn't enough.

It's crazy how little redundancy was built into that rig. If one weld failure was enough to take down the whole thing, it really seems like it was inevitable. It's kind of odd too because it's not like it's an aerospace application where they are desperately pinching weight. It seems like they could afford to add a couple more braces to up the factor of safety on a rig that is going to spend its life getting battered by the sea.

I'm finding this video extremely frustrating due to its copious use of stock footage, some of which has nothing to do with the platform. Why do this?

Should I stay or should I go? A terrible dilemma, I suppose in the absence of any definitive instructions, the instinct in that situation is to stay in your cabin. The ones who went for the lifeboats made the right call, but the majority weren’t so lucky. Most large scale disasters are like that, a few people making the right decision at the right time. RiP, lads.

I feel like the answer when the sh!t hits the fan at sea is never “stay in your cabin”

The sea knows not a soul

What a nightmare. Props to the men who work on these tombs

That didn't sound scary, MUCH. Frightening for survivors, terrifying for the victim's. So So scary!!! great video

I guess there is nothing else to do than to wait for the Titan submarine episode.

The biggest lesson that we can all take from this is if you're in a sensitive area (A tall building, a boat, a nightclub) and something unusual starts to happen,

We studied this in materials science when we were learning about fatigue, and one detail that often gets overlooked is that the weld wasn't even structural, which is why it got ignored. It was only to connect a hydrophone - just an underwater microphone - to one of the braces. It could've been connected in a bunch of ways, but the fact they chose a weld is how the failure occurred.

Thanks for posting this.

I remember my grandmother took me out to look at the wreck of the rig, which was upside down with the pontoons sticking up just above the surface after it was towed close to shore. Didn't get the full grasp of it as a 7 year old however the sight of the rig stuck with me.

I can't believe this channel doesn't have more views, amazing quality content 👍

Let me say, as an experienced oilrig and construction worker in the North Sea for several years there's a lot not explained here or just plain left out. To cover everything, including the decisions made beforehand due to a lack of understanding of real conditions in the North Sea, would take hours to adequately explain. There are a lot of people in multiple countries who still hang their heads in shame, muttering "If only we'd only known then what we know know now."

I just found this channel and the videos are well made! No loud background music, clear descriptions for audio only, thanks

I worked offshore in the 80s, i heard that one of the legs was used to put heavy equipment that is used in different times in the drilling operation and this contributed to the weld failure, RIP to all the lost souls.

Thank you for sharing their story.