This
boat replaced two utility boats as a “field boat,” supporting nearly a dozen
manned production platforms on the outer continental shelf. That means we bring
the groceries and haul the trash, pump fuel and water, and move stuff around
the field.
It’s
a pretty active field, pumping lots of oil and gas. There’s also still some
post-Katrina and post-Rita cleanup going on. Today a succession of four deep
thumps reverberated through our hull: underwater explosions at a salvage site.
At
the same time a new platform is going up in the middle of the field and there
are several drilling rigs on workovers.
With
all this activity there are a ton of boats out here. Dive boats, ROV boats,
construction boats, tugs, derrick barges, crewboats, and shrimp boats dragging
the bottom for junk.
And
with all these boats, we’re busier than ever. The past two days, we played
construction boat, moving equipment and workers from platform to platform. For
24 hours, we had a 7-ton tool shed taking up a big section of the back deck.
More
of the same tomorrow, the boss says. And maybe we’ll start our backload for the
beach.
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