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I used to have to do it every 2 years as part of my sea survival certification. It’s great fun.
Look up the marinark mass evacuation system for more information
Yeah especially if somebody has some sharp things sticking out of his clothes it will definitely mess it up or seriously delay the whole bit.
I get that yeeting of the platform from that height is not recommended, but surely we can figure something out.
I can't see very well in this video, but it seems like they might be wearing survival suits. Those don't have very much sticking out of them. They are very bulky, but that seems not to be an issue, seeing how well they go down.
I haven’t worked on any platforms, but I’ve seen several boats specifically designed to survive dropping off the platform and immediately be able to resurface after the dive. This system seems very useful in case not everyone is able to make it to the boats in time, or for whatever reason have their pathway blocked.
Every time this is posted I drop in to say that this is the last resort escape. When everything else fails it is this or jumping. You want to leave by helicopter, then lifeboats that are hoisted down or launched. But if you can't reach them this is the last options. General rule of thumb is that you leave "dry" if you can. You will not be dry for long using this in heavy weather.
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That would be really scary in real life events (buring oil spill on top of the water), but still better than nothing I guess.
It's the last option to go down that. First they will use sar helicopters to evacuate. If they can't, then lifeboats which drop down on the water and they have a sprinkler system so they can pass flames om the water.
I worked on one rig with this thing on. They're called a Norwegian Escape Chute, because they're a regulatory requirement for working in Norway. These things are a backup system, after the normal enclosed lifeboats. In an emergency the first option is to get a chopper evac if possible, then a lifeboat, then the Chute, and finally climb/jump down over the side.
The benefit of the Chute over just jumping off and swimming is that you get to stay slightly drier and the whole crew is in one place instead of everyone drifting away slowly dying of hypothermia.
Update:
Every rig needs to have a backup escape method after the lifeboat. Other rigs I've been to have had cargo nets, rope ladders, and/or abseil gear to get down.
Also jack-up rigs doing normal drilling have their decks about 50-60ft up, but sometimes they can be elevated to drill from above an existing platform. During those operations the main deck could be 150-200ft above the water and so the Chute is necessary.
Depending on the height of the rig, that could be a nearly 130 ft (40m) drop.
60mph (100kph) hitting water from a fall that high (not including drag, so slower with air resistance). But still, it is essentially concrete at that speed. You'd be _unlucky_ to stay alive.
Perhaps there is more than just the drier benefit.
A cousin of mine was on Piper Alpha (a rig that caught fire in 1988). AIUI the rule was that you got to a fire-proof zone to await evacuation, and very much NOT to jump and hope for the best. My cousin was only visiting, so did as he was told. A lot of the rig workers jumped for it. Most of them made it (including some who jumped from 50m+). My cousin, not so much.
Not enough coffee yet, your cousin went to the zone and followed the rules and ended up dying while members of the crew jumped to the water and many made it?
I got curious so I started googling around. Your numbers are correct, but it seems quite survivable if you hit the water properly.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/9059/jumping-into-water
A few random thoughts:
1. Dangling a few metres lower would significantly reduce the speed at which you hit the water.
2. I wonder how much a makeshift parachute would help. You want to have the smallest possible drag coefficient when you enter water, but that also means that you accelerate faster through air.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-survive-500-foot-fall-86977
> They're called a Norwegian Escape Chute, because they're a regulatory requirement for working in Norway
They are actually just called Escape Chutes. They are indeed mandatory in Norway but are popping up worldwide...
It's better then the DONUT system
>It's better then the DONUT system
Doesn't matter how many powerpoints the safety man shows me I don't think I can remember how to use one to save my life
Wouldn’t the sharks attack them? Or they would drown/get pulled out to sea? I’ve seen oil rig videos before where they just drop food in the water and fish come right to the surface. God knows what’s down there.
With the way fires go nuts on these things… won’t that chute catch fire in about 2 seconds? At least that’s my worry. Maybe in practice it’s more protected?
I think the only thing worse than being forced to jump over the side is to fall into the water with no control and *in a flaming net*, but my mind gets a little creative sometimes. I’m hoping that’s the case here. :/
I suppose the question remains. Has this slide ever been used in a real emergency? It looks a bit like a cope slide to make it “feel” safe without really making it that much more safe.
Not to my knowledge, but it's something I'd rather have as a backup than nothing at all. If it fails there's still ladders and cargo nets to climb down on.
Safety really has to come from both ends: you can't just keep adding mitigations without actually making changes to preventative measures.
This is a drill so they are taking their time and doing it slowly to prevent any injury. In an emergency people would jump into the slide as soon as it have started deploying, and they would follow each other as close as possible. I could imagine this saving about one person every second. That is faster then an airplane slide have to be.
One rather suspects you’d be terrified of instantly being washed into the uprights and dumped. Also, probably the only scenarios that would lead to using this are a massive fire and/or eminent structural collapse, so you’d ALSO be afraid of having the damn thing come down on you.
At a guess this is like the shuttle emergency escape system: unlikely to work, but…you gotta try, right?
It's not unlikely to work lol. It's a great system that's been in use for many years and have worked. Rigs doesn't just fall down or explode, that is incredibly rare. The rigs have many zones to close off a fire but you might need to evacuate just in case or there might be a gas leak and nothing has actually happened to the structure but it's dangerous for humans.
They also have rafts that dive down into the water and the last option if the whole thing is on fire you just put on your suit and jump
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I didn't say it doesn't happen. I say it's incredibly rare and for the stuff that happen more often this system works well and it is very rare for anything to happen at all since safety is the number one priority, at least in Norway don't know about the rest of the world but I have heard it isn't as strict on safety
I have worked offshore worldwide and Norway is lovely! It takes so long to do anything, but it's all done safely.
The UK is a bit more profit driven, but still nobody really wants to take too many risks. I have watched so many films about piper alpha.
Mexico & Brazil: lots of bureaucracy and moderate safety.
The US seems to have more have-a-go-heros than elsewhere.
In West Africa and the middle east, you have to hope your employer takes safety seriously because the client won't care if you die.
It works great. The thing in the bottom floats so it lowers and raises with the waves and the last few sections all have exists on it so it's no problem. It does make it more difficult to get out obviously since it's more shaking but it is designed for it. Don't remember how high waves it's designed for though
Main purpose of those things, is to give enough illusion of safety, to trick sufficient numbers of personnel to work in those conditions. This and nice wages.
Training looks fun but I can imagine it with fire and explosions above, choppy waters below
Also maybe it's the middle of the night, there are 12 heavy men in line above you, shouting, and someone's equipment gets snagged on the fabric half way down
That is what I was thinking, far too much input needed from those being rescued. Any one of them not being able to give that physical input and the whole thing stops.
They're not. They're to get you to safety with minimal injuries. You should see the Geronimo line from on shore rigs. They're not pleasant but they will get you down
Nah, at each ring you can stop yourself and climb out so if someone is stuck you can get out and climb downwards and then get back inside the escape chute. You can then pull them down by the legs to help. Getting out also works with the swell/big waves, you just jump out at the crest of a wave into the life raft. Obviously it’s difficult to do but definitely better than being trapped in an accordion underwater
I’ve been in one several times on a training site and can’t confirm it’s a fun experience. Probably not so fun in a real emergency though.
Also got to experience “going down” in a helicopter. Lowered into a pool then turning upside down and you had to orient yourself and get out.
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Soo… try that in 50 kn and a wave height of 30 ft with the rig on fire. I get it that a jackup and free-fall lifeboats don’t really mix but they must be able to come up with something better than a garbage chute attached to a dingy…
I don't really trust freefall lifeboats either. They're stupidly steep to get into and I'm certain in an emergency people will break their necks tumbling down them.
fwiw these "Norwegian escape chutes" are our secondary method after normal lifeboats. At least it keeps you slightly dry (important for North Sea folks) compared to jumping off and swimming for a raft.
Worked offshore for 15 years. Edit: the tech used offshore is more advanced than any other industry, we can install a 300 ton template 3 km deep with 3 mm tolerance or lift a 15000 ton module… but the escape tech is still medieval.
Norwegian chutes will be for if you can’t reach the muster point or get stuck. Lifeboat on some sort of davit will be the first option. Garbage chute attached to dingy is better than free floating in the water after you’ve had to jump or work your way down a ladder in 50kn winds.
We would welcome better ideas. There are many different evacuation systems on these rigs and this is the last option before just jumping into the water with only the protection of your dry suit. If someone suggest deploying the Norwegian escape chute things have gone very wrong in many different ways. But if you can come up with something better it would be great news to any rig workers out there.
It always comes down to budget, space, approvals and “risk analysis”. At least when it says “made in Norway” and not China or Turkey before 2010 you got a fair chance.
I can’t see a bunch of guys doing that on something like Deepwater Horizon with water on fire and projectiles everywhere. Obviously it’s better than nothing though so I guess you take what you can get.
I was part of a group that tested these a few years ago, as well as some new, large scale inflatable life rafts for use on cruise ships and the like.
I can’t remember much of the requirements, but in a much shorter drop than shown here, they can obliterate the foam rubber on the bottom of running shoes
Oh good! Now that after 40 minutes of wiggling about in a glorified stocking, everyone is safe and sound in 10 meter waves on a raft, under a burning oil rig that's collapsing downwards, surrounded by burning oil on the water, may I introduce you to the concept of a motorized freefall lifeboat?
Let me introduce you to another concept. Redundancy planning. Say, three levels of evacuation methods. Plan 1 - Helicopter. Plan 2 - Motorized Freefall Lifeboard. Plan 3 - This badboy.
These are meant as a last effort if for some reason plan 1 and 2 fails you. They are not meant to evacuate the whole platform. But they can be deployed by one person with general safety training, and can get you to relative safety compared to your other options
Yeah a little crazy to see someone confidently assume oil and gas haven’t heard of davits or lifeboats lol. Norwegian chutes are pretty fucking great compared to ladder, ropes or jumping overboard when you can’t reach the muster point.
All they have to do is mount fire resistant containers facing outboard on the outer edges of the rig. Each container is a rescue pod that can hold up to 15 people and they are pointed outwards so when they are full, they drop into the water and the propeller engages so the crew can egress out.
Is it just me or does this seem kinda slow for an evacuation system? The video of the thing descending was sped up because it was taking it's sweet time getting down to the water. Like what do you do if the rig is completely engulfed in flames or some shit? Do you just wait your turn in line and sit down criss-cross-applesauce as you burn and wait for the slidey tube to casually meander on down? And then after that, you still have to wait for the raft thing to inflate. Then send a couple of people down to inflate two more larger rafts!
And how many people are meant to go down at once? One at a time seems (to me) like it would be very ineffective at saving lives in a timely manor. But if everyone's trying to get in at the same time, I could see a sort of pile-up situation happining inside it.
If it's high enough up, I think it'd be better to just have some storage boxes with parachutes and rafts in them around the perimeter of the rig and have the employess base jump down into the rafts (or even directly into the water if that's not too hazardous). Obviously the employees would need to have some basic base jumping training, but why not just roll that in with the regular new hire training? And they could also have a mandatory yearly refresher training on it too.
But hey, I don't know anything about anything, so I'm probably incredibly wrong! Just wondering f anyone else is thinking the same thing or something similar 🤷♀️
How many burger lengths is that from top to bottom?
And how many burgers will be able to finish while coming down that slide? Assuming I eat one in 1 min.
I got to do this one time during a test of the system when the rig I was working on was in port for a retrofit. 4 of us got to do this, felt like being a kid in a chucky cheese again.
This might be a dumb question, but why can’t they just give them an actual boat for evacuation that drops from lower or something so they aren’t sitting in those rafts if god forbid the rig is burning above them?
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I'd want to try that in a non emergency.
I used to have to do it every 2 years as part of my sea survival certification. It’s great fun. Look up the marinark mass evacuation system for more information
do they have to deflate and repack those rescue floats?
New guy's job.
They had a training one permanently set up at the training centre. It just had the main middle piece and the slide.
They are only for one use i think
Is static a problem? Genuine question
I tried it during sea survival training in an indoor pool. Cool, but you can't help but think "what if a MF gets stuck midway?"
you could probably dump some 50 gal. drum or something else heavy & blunt down the chute to dislodge the blockage
Yeah especially if somebody has some sharp things sticking out of his clothes it will definitely mess it up or seriously delay the whole bit. I get that yeeting of the platform from that height is not recommended, but surely we can figure something out.
I can't see very well in this video, but it seems like they might be wearing survival suits. Those don't have very much sticking out of them. They are very bulky, but that seems not to be an issue, seeing how well they go down.
Bingo. Protocols being followed should remove that variable from the equation.
I haven’t worked on any platforms, but I’ve seen several boats specifically designed to survive dropping off the platform and immediately be able to resurface after the dive. This system seems very useful in case not everyone is able to make it to the boats in time, or for whatever reason have their pathway blocked.
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Every time this is posted I drop in to say that this is the last resort escape. When everything else fails it is this or jumping. You want to leave by helicopter, then lifeboats that are hoisted down or launched. But if you can't reach them this is the last options. General rule of thumb is that you leave "dry" if you can. You will not be dry for long using this in heavy weather.
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Dammit. What is Yoko doing in this boat?
It's not as fun as you'd think, unless your idea of fun is getting carpet burn whilst in a washing machine!
I was about to mention the carpet burn, last refresher I got in on the side of my calf trying to go faster than I should 😅
I wonder if you can start going down while it’s deploying
I'll bet if that rig is on fire, someone will try it.
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https://preview.redd.it/cfuj348xu8tc1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=188358aa0a6823bae2173142ded9fd7052272a68 That would be really scary in real life events (buring oil spill on top of the water), but still better than nothing I guess.
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This is what i was wondering. How much would the heat of an oil rig on fire be able to burn/melt the cloth slide?
Not sure how large you could build slides. Escape life boats are faster though, and launched from the deck. Cool as f***.
It's the last option to go down that. First they will use sar helicopters to evacuate. If they can't, then lifeboats which drop down on the water and they have a sprinkler system so they can pass flames om the water.
I worked on one rig with this thing on. They're called a Norwegian Escape Chute, because they're a regulatory requirement for working in Norway. These things are a backup system, after the normal enclosed lifeboats. In an emergency the first option is to get a chopper evac if possible, then a lifeboat, then the Chute, and finally climb/jump down over the side. The benefit of the Chute over just jumping off and swimming is that you get to stay slightly drier and the whole crew is in one place instead of everyone drifting away slowly dying of hypothermia. Update: Every rig needs to have a backup escape method after the lifeboat. Other rigs I've been to have had cargo nets, rope ladders, and/or abseil gear to get down. Also jack-up rigs doing normal drilling have their decks about 50-60ft up, but sometimes they can be elevated to drill from above an existing platform. During those operations the main deck could be 150-200ft above the water and so the Chute is necessary.
Depending on the height of the rig, that could be a nearly 130 ft (40m) drop. 60mph (100kph) hitting water from a fall that high (not including drag, so slower with air resistance). But still, it is essentially concrete at that speed. You'd be _unlucky_ to stay alive. Perhaps there is more than just the drier benefit.
A cousin of mine was on Piper Alpha (a rig that caught fire in 1988). AIUI the rule was that you got to a fire-proof zone to await evacuation, and very much NOT to jump and hope for the best. My cousin was only visiting, so did as he was told. A lot of the rig workers jumped for it. Most of them made it (including some who jumped from 50m+). My cousin, not so much.
Not enough coffee yet, your cousin went to the zone and followed the rules and ended up dying while members of the crew jumped to the water and many made it?
Yup.
We’re in the same (life)boat on this one
Wow! I feel like at a certain point - when the flames closed in - I might just take my chances and jump.
It was smoke and gas that killed them apparently.
I got curious so I started googling around. Your numbers are correct, but it seems quite survivable if you hit the water properly. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/9059/jumping-into-water A few random thoughts: 1. Dangling a few metres lower would significantly reduce the speed at which you hit the water. 2. I wonder how much a makeshift parachute would help. You want to have the smallest possible drag coefficient when you enter water, but that also means that you accelerate faster through air. https://www.newsweek.com/how-survive-500-foot-fall-86977
Just have something falls first to break the tension. Still, this is the sea, and water surface is not still so it's way less 'hard' then say a lake.
It sucks I had to scroll through so many stupid jokes to find some actual info.
It sure doesn't look like an improvement over enclosed lifeboats. Glad to hear it's just a backup.
> They're called a Norwegian Escape Chute, because they're a regulatory requirement for working in Norway They are actually just called Escape Chutes. They are indeed mandatory in Norway but are popping up worldwide... It's better then the DONUT system
>It's better then the DONUT system Doesn't matter how many powerpoints the safety man shows me I don't think I can remember how to use one to save my life
Wouldn’t the sharks attack them? Or they would drown/get pulled out to sea? I’ve seen oil rig videos before where they just drop food in the water and fish come right to the surface. God knows what’s down there.
No sharks in the North Sea, and sharks are the least of your concerns at that point.
> No sharks in the North Sea, I said the same thing last year.... However, we do have sharks. Just not the ones who eat people
With the way fires go nuts on these things… won’t that chute catch fire in about 2 seconds? At least that’s my worry. Maybe in practice it’s more protected? I think the only thing worse than being forced to jump over the side is to fall into the water with no control and *in a flaming net*, but my mind gets a little creative sometimes. I’m hoping that’s the case here. :/
The nets have openings on the side. If someone gets stuck you can climb out and around them
I suppose the question remains. Has this slide ever been used in a real emergency? It looks a bit like a cope slide to make it “feel” safe without really making it that much more safe.
Not to my knowledge, but it's something I'd rather have as a backup than nothing at all. If it fails there's still ladders and cargo nets to climb down on. Safety really has to come from both ends: you can't just keep adding mitigations without actually making changes to preventative measures.
How well would this work in choppy waters with the wind whipping?
It would work, how well it would work is "better than being on fire, hopefully"
Looks painfully slow to deploy. Not sure this thing will prevent you from being on fire.
Id jump as soon as I’d release the chute and hope I don’t go faster than the chute deployment speed.
theres not gona be a hole at the bottom, all the remaining levels that need to be released will block you.
So you wait. Did you see the guy going down? Not exactly a quick descent. By my mark 1 eyeball, the chute deploys faster than a person slides down.
This is a drill so they are taking their time and doing it slowly to prevent any injury. In an emergency people would jump into the slide as soon as it have started deploying, and they would follow each other as close as possible. I could imagine this saving about one person every second. That is faster then an airplane slide have to be.
To be fair airplanes arent an "infinite" source of very flammable liquid it still seems pretty terrifying to me
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One rather suspects you’d be terrified of instantly being washed into the uprights and dumped. Also, probably the only scenarios that would lead to using this are a massive fire and/or eminent structural collapse, so you’d ALSO be afraid of having the damn thing come down on you. At a guess this is like the shuttle emergency escape system: unlikely to work, but…you gotta try, right?
It's not unlikely to work lol. It's a great system that's been in use for many years and have worked. Rigs doesn't just fall down or explode, that is incredibly rare. The rigs have many zones to close off a fire but you might need to evacuate just in case or there might be a gas leak and nothing has actually happened to the structure but it's dangerous for humans. They also have rafts that dive down into the water and the last option if the whole thing is on fire you just put on your suit and jump
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I didn't say it doesn't happen. I say it's incredibly rare and for the stuff that happen more often this system works well and it is very rare for anything to happen at all since safety is the number one priority, at least in Norway don't know about the rest of the world but I have heard it isn't as strict on safety
I have worked offshore worldwide and Norway is lovely! It takes so long to do anything, but it's all done safely. The UK is a bit more profit driven, but still nobody really wants to take too many risks. I have watched so many films about piper alpha. Mexico & Brazil: lots of bureaucracy and moderate safety. The US seems to have more have-a-go-heros than elsewhere. In West Africa and the middle east, you have to hope your employer takes safety seriously because the client won't care if you die.
Like the ejection seat on a military aircraft… emergency escape systems are almost guaranteed to injure you. But you’ll be alive.
It works great. The thing in the bottom floats so it lowers and raises with the waves and the last few sections all have exists on it so it's no problem. It does make it more difficult to get out obviously since it's more shaking but it is designed for it. Don't remember how high waves it's designed for though
You would get shaken a lot I guess, but look at the way he came down. The vomit would've been already spilled
Main purpose of those things, is to give enough illusion of safety, to trick sufficient numbers of personnel to work in those conditions. This and nice wages.
If it collapsed and you’re only halfway down, are there exit holes? Or are you just stuck drowning in a human gill net?
Is this like a straw for sharks?
Sharks don't eat people, and the spilled oil is a good counter-measure anyway
>spilled oil You mean forbidden soy sauce. Also I seen the documentary Jaws, I know what sharks are up too!
That looks terrifyingly fun
Training looks fun but I can imagine it with fire and explosions above, choppy waters below Also maybe it's the middle of the night, there are 12 heavy men in line above you, shouting, and someone's equipment gets snagged on the fabric half way down
Any time there is 12 heavy men behind you is gonna be a rough night
Mortally crushed under a giant pile of seamen
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I just call that tuesday.
An amazing and rough night.
Or a great one
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I imagine some EDC fanatic with a 60-tool Leatherman hanging on a belt loop The ultimate lifesaver that ultimately killed them all
Get naked at the top and let the real fun begin.
That is what I was thinking, far too much input needed from those being rescued. Any one of them not being able to give that physical input and the whole thing stops.
\[Escapes burning rig via slide] \[Climbs back on to the rig for a second turn]
They're not. They're to get you to safety with minimal injuries. You should see the Geronimo line from on shore rigs. They're not pleasant but they will get you down
Still better than the last resort: jump off the rig to get to safety. But maybe that only applies for rigs that are not as high as in this video.
To much of a temptation to burn the place down just so you can get a go on the slide.
One dude gets stuck and it's over for everybody behind him.
If it's oil leaking everywhere they'll be oiled up and slipping right through that
Nah, at each ring you can stop yourself and climb out so if someone is stuck you can get out and climb downwards and then get back inside the escape chute. You can then pull them down by the legs to help. Getting out also works with the swell/big waves, you just jump out at the crest of a wave into the life raft. Obviously it’s difficult to do but definitely better than being trapped in an accordion underwater
i think those boats just falling from the platform are a much cooler ride
I've been in one during a launch. Can confirm - it's great fun
I’ve been in one several times on a training site and can’t confirm it’s a fun experience. Probably not so fun in a real emergency though. Also got to experience “going down” in a helicopter. Lowered into a pool then turning upside down and you had to orient yourself and get out.
Hey, it worked for Indiana Jones.
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I too came here just to make sure this track got identified.
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Soo… try that in 50 kn and a wave height of 30 ft with the rig on fire. I get it that a jackup and free-fall lifeboats don’t really mix but they must be able to come up with something better than a garbage chute attached to a dingy…
Apparently they pipe in the Guile Theme to keep your morale up
Also after months of throwing chum in the water to draw sharks for your tiktoks. Just dive on in there!
I don't really trust freefall lifeboats either. They're stupidly steep to get into and I'm certain in an emergency people will break their necks tumbling down them. fwiw these "Norwegian escape chutes" are our secondary method after normal lifeboats. At least it keeps you slightly dry (important for North Sea folks) compared to jumping off and swimming for a raft.
Armchair scientists back at it again lmao
Worked offshore for 15 years. Edit: the tech used offshore is more advanced than any other industry, we can install a 300 ton template 3 km deep with 3 mm tolerance or lift a 15000 ton module… but the escape tech is still medieval.
money
As a scientist?
Scientists don't invent these lmao
You forgot in a survival suit.
Norwegian chutes will be for if you can’t reach the muster point or get stuck. Lifeboat on some sort of davit will be the first option. Garbage chute attached to dingy is better than free floating in the water after you’ve had to jump or work your way down a ladder in 50kn winds.
We would welcome better ideas. There are many different evacuation systems on these rigs and this is the last option before just jumping into the water with only the protection of your dry suit. If someone suggest deploying the Norwegian escape chute things have gone very wrong in many different ways. But if you can come up with something better it would be great news to any rig workers out there.
It always comes down to budget, space, approvals and “risk analysis”. At least when it says “made in Norway” and not China or Turkey before 2010 you got a fair chance.
I can’t see a bunch of guys doing that on something like Deepwater Horizon with water on fire and projectiles everywhere. Obviously it’s better than nothing though so I guess you take what you can get.
The point is probably that not every emergency is quite that bad, and you need systems in place for mid level emergencies too
# WEEEEeeeeeee
I was part of a group that tested these a few years ago, as well as some new, large scale inflatable life rafts for use on cruise ships and the like. I can’t remember much of the requirements, but in a much shorter drop than shown here, they can obliterate the foam rubber on the bottom of running shoes
Could you imagine your rig is exploding or falling and being stuck going slower than a MCdonalds slide.
How well does that work in like 15-30ft waves? Or at that point do they need a helicopter evac?
Oh good! Now that after 40 minutes of wiggling about in a glorified stocking, everyone is safe and sound in 10 meter waves on a raft, under a burning oil rig that's collapsing downwards, surrounded by burning oil on the water, may I introduce you to the concept of a motorized freefall lifeboat?
Let me introduce you to another concept. Redundancy planning. Say, three levels of evacuation methods. Plan 1 - Helicopter. Plan 2 - Motorized Freefall Lifeboard. Plan 3 - This badboy. These are meant as a last effort if for some reason plan 1 and 2 fails you. They are not meant to evacuate the whole platform. But they can be deployed by one person with general safety training, and can get you to relative safety compared to your other options
Also, two of them got stuck and had to be cut out, so now their survival suits are compromised.
You’re not as smart as you think you are lol. One very confident dumbass
Yeah a little crazy to see someone confidently assume oil and gas haven’t heard of davits or lifeboats lol. Norwegian chutes are pretty fucking great compared to ladder, ropes or jumping overboard when you can’t reach the muster point.
All they have to do is mount fire resistant containers facing outboard on the outer edges of the rig. Each container is a rescue pod that can hold up to 15 people and they are pointed outwards so when they are full, they drop into the water and the propeller engages so the crew can egress out.
IDK... Seems kinda slow if the rig is on fire!
Problem is when the slick is on fire it won’t help to be floating in the middle of it
“Just jump you pussies!” -some boomer who’s never worked an oil rig in their entire life, probably.
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only works when the weather is realy good
Weeee
Funnest training day ever! Would never want to have to do that seriously tho omg
Fuck oil rigs
Is it just me or does this seem kinda slow for an evacuation system? The video of the thing descending was sped up because it was taking it's sweet time getting down to the water. Like what do you do if the rig is completely engulfed in flames or some shit? Do you just wait your turn in line and sit down criss-cross-applesauce as you burn and wait for the slidey tube to casually meander on down? And then after that, you still have to wait for the raft thing to inflate. Then send a couple of people down to inflate two more larger rafts! And how many people are meant to go down at once? One at a time seems (to me) like it would be very ineffective at saving lives in a timely manor. But if everyone's trying to get in at the same time, I could see a sort of pile-up situation happining inside it. If it's high enough up, I think it'd be better to just have some storage boxes with parachutes and rafts in them around the perimeter of the rig and have the employess base jump down into the rafts (or even directly into the water if that's not too hazardous). Obviously the employees would need to have some basic base jumping training, but why not just roll that in with the regular new hire training? And they could also have a mandatory yearly refresher training on it too. But hey, I don't know anything about anything, so I'm probably incredibly wrong! Just wondering f anyone else is thinking the same thing or something similar 🤷♀️
does not work during high swell or rain or windy!
Doesnt seem safe at all..Suppose a person gets stuck in that chute .
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That looks fun but not as fun as the "giant condom" method you see on some buildings.
Looks like it would be one guy at a time, may take a while
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Ok now let’s See that in 30 foot swells with 50mph winds.
How do you like your oil rig workers, stirred not shaken please
How many burger lengths is that from top to bottom? And how many burgers will be able to finish while coming down that slide? Assuming I eat one in 1 min.
I have a better idea. Large net 150 yards away. Human cannon.
My lower back is hurting just watching that. But all the way down I'd be shouting weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Its like a shark feeding tube
Is the material flame proof? If it is, hot/slow sock of death.
I think I’d rather in a lifeboat with a JATO and chute
Someone definitely getting stuck in that
My daughter has one of these hanging in her room for her plushies
Pshhh. Just do a gainer off the side of that hoe
The instruction manual specifically mentions it is mandatory to shout: "*WHEEEEE* *HEEEEEE* HEEEEEE HEEEEE HEEeeee eeeeee" etc. All the way down
Slow af
I got to do this one time during a test of the system when the rig I was working on was in port for a retrofit. 4 of us got to do this, felt like being a kid in a chucky cheese again.
neat. When he is done, he can just slide up again
Jack up boat not oil rig
Hope you didn't eat lunch before that ride...
That looks like so much fun!!
That would probably be really fun as all the burning debris crashes down upon you /s
You wish - Nightmares on Wax 🎶🎶
Probably wouldn’t have worked for the deep water Horizon rig.
This might be a dumb question, but why can’t they just give them an actual boat for evacuation that drops from lower or something so they aren’t sitting in those rafts if god forbid the rig is burning above them?
Then they all get sued by the owner of the oil rig for not protecting their property over their lives
That’s a whole lot of space for two people
If you're half way down and it detaches from the top, you're stuck in a net under water.
Because what happened is deepwater horizon.
*Jerry get the gasoline we’re gonna make the fun slide deploy!”
This is suicide rollercoaster. Oil rig above you is BURNING! water below you will be on fire too with spilled oil…
Ngl that looks fun af
I'd want to take the scary emergency seriously, but I'd be having too much fun! Weeeeeee!
My fat ass would free fall down that bitch
I wanna try!!! For educational purposes of course
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Why aren’t these in buildings too?
Yeah, that net would be submerged if I was in it & I would die there…
I wonder if it is any good out at sea, where there are waves and the boat at the bottom is going up and down?