Grampian Defender collides with BP Magnus...

[J381]

Oops!

[Alfachick]

Thats quite a big Oops. Bet a few folk are stting themselfs at the moment!

[J381]

You're right!

Meant to add, it happened on the 22nd April

[Alfachick]

So are those your pics from the rig? Must have made a fair bump and woken a few folk up. How did he get out? Just full astern?

[MarkRSi]

[hidetheelephants]

Oops! There'll be a few tense meetings at Queen's Rd about this one!

[matthewg]

hidetheelephants said:

Ooops! There'll be a few tense meetings at Queen's Rd about this one!

Bosses office and or drinking establishments??!

[hidetheelephants]

matthewg said:

Bosses office and or drinking establishments??!

North Star Shipping Ltd
12 Queen's Road
Aberdeen

[J381]

Admittedly they are good photos but I am glad to say I wasn't onboard to take them myself! LOL
I got them sent to me in an email and thought I'd share with PH.

Roy, you could be right there mate.

J

[sherman]

Love it how in the pictures it looks like the boat has a deployable smoke screen to hide its self from the photographer

[mybrainhurts]

Why the hell do they let women drive those things...?

Foot slipped off the clutch, did it..?

[westtra]

From what i've been told it was mechanical issues when the boat was up tide of the platform and drifted in.

[mazdajason]

Argh, if I had of seen this thread earlier I taken photos to show you how it looks now as he has the job of fixing it now!

[matthewg]

westtra said:

From what i've been told it was mechanical issues when the boat was up tide of the platform and drifted in.

Read this too

Glad no one was hurt and hope they had a productive safe day

[hidetheelephants]

matthewg said:

Read this too

Glad no one was hurt and hope they had a productive safe day

Whatever Magnus collects from the big hole in the ground, the duty wonk will have pressed the 'OH st!' button and shut everything down as soon as Defender had the black out/power failure; that's the usual SOP.

[matthewg]

hidetheelephants said:

Whatever Magnus collects from the big hole in the ground, the duty wonk will have pressed the 'OH st!' button and shut everything down as soon as Defender had the black out/power failure; that's the usual SOP.

Indeed.

The problem with text is you cannot tel me tone. I was hoping the little 'smiley' would of helped!

[matthewg]

bus pass said:

Is this not one for the bad parking thread over in General Gassing?


How the hell did they get those pipes / cables untangled from the mast?

With the greatest of difficulty!

[hidetheelephants]

matthewg said:

Indeed.

The problem with text is you cannot tel me tone. I was hoping the little 'smiley' would of helped!

Oh right; mea culpa.

[westtra]

bus pass said:

Is this not one for the bad parking thread over in General Gassing?


How the hell did they get those pipes / cables untangled from the mast?

By going asten hard until the ripped from the platfom/split and released from mast.

[EddyJ]

Great photos! The boat didn't actually lose power until it was fifty metres from the platform when they tried to start the aft thruster on full power with only one geny on the board. Turns out the guy on watch had the autopilot engaged with the magnus as the waypoint! Only thing that stopped her from going all the way under the platform was they jammed the azipods on the structure! Damaged one of the pods so bad they had to come back in on one engine. Don't envy their crew much!