For a few days prior to this riser inspection, we had been swimming pipelines around this platform and placing buoys on them so that boats would know where they were as a construction barge was on its way.

A Permina Supply boat picked up this pipeline in its anchor and actually pulled the pipeline the full 150 feet to the surface. The crew then freed the pipeline and they pretended nothing had happened.

The men on the storage barge in the background had told us that the production line had been changed over to an export line. They had been on the SBM and we saw no reason to not beleive them.

When the divers hit the flange with the rattle gun they started at the bottom and 100,000 barrels a day of oil greeted them. They swam over to the ladder at did the cross over themselves. I went up to my cabin and got my camera but had to wait for it to unfog before taking the photo. The spray was much higher at first, what is coming out when I took the photo is oil that has gone up to the barge and is coming back down the floating hose as the guys on the barge are closing the valve on the barge.. The oil is actually going down and bouncing off the water.