{"id":392,"date":"2008-12-13T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T04:14:24","slug":"i-dump-i-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/392\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dump. I Rock."},"content":{"rendered":"

This evening I will be heading north up the island on the train to Nogliki, where tomorrow (weather permitting) I will be taken by helicopter to what was for a short time my home, the Lun-A gas production and drilling platform.\u00a0 I will be on there a matter of minutes before being hoiked in the air on a frog and plonked on the deck of the supply vessel Yuri Topchev<\/em> where hopefully I will be met by a crew member who will not wonder who I am or why I am there.\u00a0 With luck, he will have organised a hammock for me.<\/p>\n

All things going well I will be on the tub for a week, possibly heading north through ever icier seas to the Piltun-B platform, to assist with rock dumping\u00a0around a subsea pipeline.\u00a0 Rock dumping consists of dumping rock on the sea bed to protect a pipeline, or to\u00a0give it support where it spans a trench.\u00a0 And there were you thinking it was what happens to a groupie the morning after a concert!\u00a0 Apparently they already have rock on the boat so I don’t need to hand-carry any out on the helicopter, but they have given me two replacement batteries for something or other to take out with me.\u00a0\u00a0Having\u00a0picked them up, I think I’d have preferred to take rocks.<\/p>\n

I have packed a thick rope made from marine-grade hemp in case of emergency.\u00a0 Not on the boat mind you, I’m talking about if the weather gets bad and I end up stuck in the transit camp in Nogliki for a few days.\u00a0 Coupled with a sturdy beam (which admittedly would be hard to find in the Nogliki transit camp), my rope could prove to be a preferable option.<\/p>\n

I’ll see you all in a week or so.\u00a0 Allow two days for thawing.\u00a0 It’s gonna be freezing out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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