Close call offshore this morning
 

After loading and backloading five lifts this morning, we hooked up the personnel basket to put some guys on the boat and then the boom winch decided to fail internally and the ratchet pawl assembly failed to catch with two men hanging 70 ft above the water. Luckily they are ok. This could have been real bad.

Wow.....glad everyone is safe. When a person leaves for work, they always expect to come home.

WOW.........

Wow!!
Glad nobody was hurt.
That's a scary deal!!
Did u see it happen?

No, I was in the tool room. But I damn sure felt it.

I bet!!!
Im sure that crane operator was shaken up after!
Not to mention the guys swinging below....

Man I sure hope you guys have all your paperwork in line. Glad everyone is okay. I hate the fact none of our cranes have weight indicators, once you pull it off the boat you are committed.

Man! Glad we weren't still tied up under. Glad everyone is ok. Sure looks a lot calmer out ther than it was yesterday evening. I feel like I got my azz whipped I'm so sore today.

Which rig are you on

F dat...

I always worried about that or cable turning lose when I had to ride them baskets.... glad everyone was ok

SMI 23G.

Yikes!! That's scary a lot!!!! Glad everyone is ok

Man, let the safety reports fly !!! Glad nobody was hurt or worse ...

Hydro

That was probably scary than that lightning that struck WAY to close yesterday. Glad everybody was ok.


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I would have flippppppped crap if i was on that basket poooo thank god everyone is alright! That is insane!

Did the guys hit the water?

Holy crap!! I used to ride those baskets all the time. If i would have been on that basket that would have bben my last day offshore for good!!! Glad everbody is ok.

Yep, they hit the water. They had already climbed up on the boat landing by the time I got to the production deck. Hell, after they dried off, they wanted to swing onto the boat and go run the field, but the area supervisor and HS&E sent them in to get checked out. They got back out this afternoon, and it hit them how close they came to getting seriously injured or killed. I have some troopers on my crew. Glad they're still here.

I have had 2 guys fall overboard in one day, no crane involved and I was on the platform still scary as hell. Them guys have "huevos grandes!"