Comments on: Life on the Lun-A

By: Life aboard an offshore platform near Sakhalin | At Home In The Wasteland

Life aboard an offshore platform near Sakhalin | At Home In The Wasteland — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:21:12 +0000

[...] Check out this entertaining post by Tim Newman, who is currently spending a month working on an offshore platform near Russia’s Sakhalin Island. Apparently the food is quite amazing. Who knew? [...]

By: Ian Hopwood

Ian Hopwood — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:25:31 +0000

Thanks very much for the comments
Cheers
Ian
Campboss

By: Maartje

Maartje — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:07:02 +0000

Hey Tim,….I’ll take credit for changing the catering contractor on the Astoria -:) glad you enjoyed the Sakhalin Holiday accommodation I arranged for you. If you stop complaining about the crew boat and be nice to the captain then they will invite you for their annual fishing trip maybe….where ofcourse you only get to watch other people fish who do have licenses (or are called the harbour master -;) ) Regards also to Yulia from Sunny Texas, Maartje

By: White Sun of the Desert » Three Weeks on the Lun-A

White Sun of the Desert » Three Weeks on the Lun-A — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:34:49 +0000

[...] In a word: odd.� As I said in my earlier post, all anyone does is eat, sleep, and work.� There are no weekdays on the Lun-A.� There are no Monday mornings, Friday nights, Saturdays, or Sundays.� There are no days off.� All there is is day shift and night shift.� Other than a slight variation in the work, one day is identical to any other.� There is little to mark the passage of time, as going to work one�morning doesn’t seem like starting a new�day as much as repeating the previous one.� I’m still on night shift, so I don’t even get to notice changes in the weather, although I have noticed that it has been blowing a gale for the past two weeks almost without letup.� And it’s got colder. [...]

By: PooterGeek

PooterGeek — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:11:56 +0000

Have you ever thought of doing a job that’s cosier and closer to civilization, like terraforming Mars?

By: Global Voices Online » Russia: Life on an Oil Drilling Platform

Global Voices Online » Russia: Life on an Oil Drilling Platform — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:19:30 +0000

[...] life on an oil drilling platform 15 km off Sakhalin Island. Posted by Veronica Khokhlova Print Version ShareThis [...]

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:06:13 +0000

How is internet access out there?

Slow, but it goes.

By: Kalle Kniivil�

Kalle Kniivil� — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:50:19 +0000

How is internet access out there?

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:56:19 +0000

You want us to die of envy?

Maybe I should write recruitment posters for the navy in my spare time.

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:54:50 +0000

Be sure to locate the ping pong table in the bottom of one of the legs and have a game with the waves crashing all around you.

Heh! I’ve not found that…I’ll have to ask about.