Sometimes deck operations offshore don’t go as planned, which is why DP operators make a conscious effort to ensure that the sea floor below the ship is clear of infrastructure before conducting ship-to-ship transfers.
Here’s a recently uploaded video of a crane lift gone awry off Brazil.
For those of you who have have training in offshore rigging, this next video may look familiar:
In that case, the load was not secured properly and was possibly too heavy for the loading basket, or the shackles may have been twisted causing them to fail or unbalance the load.
On your second video, shock load was the problem. The sea conditions were too severe for a load line lift. The slings pre-attached to the basket may have been good enough for a calm sea state, but not for the conditions in which this lift was attempted.
On your second video, shock load was the problem. The sea conditions were too severe for a load line lift. The slings pre-attached to the basket may have been good enough for a calm sea state, but not for the conditions in which this lift was attempted.
Did the lift line winch fail in the first video?
That’s what it looks like to me.
I looked like the boom hoist cable or boom winch failed.
know the name of the rig?
There have been more crane drivers killed in the North Sea than saturation divers.
Must have been a hydraulic line failure on the boom control winch.
In the second video it is plain to see that the vessel is run down and not a class operation , no riggers just one deck hand hooking up , the boat was never under control and the crane operator did not give the boat time to get in place and settle down ; This looks like a apache operation ..lol..