Well looks like i am going to have to wait this one out. I am "supposed" to get on a helicopter tomorrow to come home, but...I doubt that is going to happen. DAMN IDA! For all of you wondering what it is like. Here is a pic. Wish me luck, and hopefully i'll get home sometime this week.

WOWWWWW!!!!!

 

Did that boat actually go down, or am I just not seeing half of it?

Great pic! Thats incredible. Do you have any more ?

The water seems even more blue than the Caribbean!

Do you feel any motion or doesn't it move at all.

are you sleeping with one leg over the bed?

WOWWWWW!!!!!

 

Did that boat actually go down, or am I just not seeing half of it?

 

actually the boat is fine, he just took off for shore. It is supposed to get a lot worse, the eye is supposed to go 15 miles west of us on monday night/tuesday morning. Internet is horrible right now, but when i get a chance more pics to come. it's a little scary-lol. Fortunately i dont get sea sick.

Awesome picture! Stay safe dude

holy wow. Stay safe.

 

But yeah, does the pad move?

One of the best dives in NJ is the Texas Tower. while not an oil rig, it was a early warning radar tower off the NJ coast in the 60's and it went down in a gale.

http://www.texastower.com/

 

If the conditions are right, the dive is outstanding although deep at almost 200 feet. Blue water isn't unheard of in the later months when the gulf Stream moves close to the shore.

 

I'm not a big fan of being on a boat in those seas and I doubt I'd be any happier on an oil rig.

well we managed to survive. 55ft seas and 96mph winds. We took a little damage but nothing major. I did laugh at all of the guys getting sea sick. The eye passed right over us, what an amazing sight. Just like in the movies, nice and calm with blue skies. Somebody sent a quick video over to the weather channel and the video of the oil rig on the weather channel is us. We got our 14 seconds of fame.

upload the video here.

 

so question, does the rig itself move alot or what?

There's a couple from oil rigs in the gulf.

 

That's a guy you work with? If you scroll down the stories, you'll see the vids.

 

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/video ... om=hp_news

well I made it back home. All is well. The rig i am on is like a giant pontoon boat, just anchored in place. So we were rockin and rollin quite a bit. We do exploratory drilling, drill a hole and move on. And the link to the weather channel we are the video named "ida's waves more intense." This was way before it got rough, still some 15-20 footers in the video. Once it got above 30ft seas they wouldn't let us outside to see any more. The guy actually sent the video to his wife to show her it wasn't that bad, and she ended up sending it to the weather channel. I weaseled my way up to the bridge, a secure area, just to watch a bit when it was a lot rougher.

glad you are safe at home!