PICTURE OF THE DAY 2012

Photographs of offshore support vessels in action in many parts of the world. 

This is the Aries Marine platform ship Betty Pfankuch alongside the Stena Forth in the Gulf of Mexico, with a full deck cargo. This is known as a "Spud Boat", the first ship to arrive at a drilling rig on a new location carrying all th essentials required to start a new well. The pipe for those unfamiliar is the first length of casing, and although I have not see this before, I believe the yellow lengths will be the one at the top, since they are marked with numbers so the ROV can see how deep the bottom end will be below the seabed.

 Photo by Paul Morris and posted here on 24th April 2012.

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