Deconstructing The Lima Platform | Engineering Giants

Engineer turned comedian Tom Wrigglesworth and Rob Bell, rising star of mechanical engineering, tell the story as an entire North Sea Gas installation, the Lima Platform, is pulled from the sea by floating crane, brought back to Newcastle, and then torn into tiny pieces for recycling.
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[@otpyrcralphpierre1742]

I spent many years of my life out at sea working on these platforms. I'm retired now, and I sure do miss it. Well done video. Thank you.

[@nunyabidness674]

just to think, these folks were the pioneers of the technology, and they still did it better than the folks who do it today.

[@user-hl9gd2hg2j]

That man who said 40 years of his life gone hits hard

[@1978garfield]

Shame the didn't move it on land and turn it in to a museum.