MONSTER WAVES Reaching Oil Rig's Windows | North Sea

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[@natsune09]

Having a strong faith in engineering is required not to soil yourself.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Some vikings hundreds of years ago: “Oh my Odin, that wave is big as a mountain... Aaaargh, I soiled my tunic !”

[@gramforgramarmwrestling6742]

Lol you have to have faith that the oil execs keep everything well maintained and don't cut corners.

[@stevewebber5966]

@@gramforgramarmwrestling6742 I believe that you may find as history has shown. Oil companies are some of the worse culprits at cutting corners when it comes to safety!

[@12345fowler]

Kinf of funny to think that wether playing with a floating object in your bathtube or this is the same physic at work.

[@natsune09]

@@12345fowler It is, something so small can be taken to great extremes. Gravity that cause two atoms to come together can cause mass to be crushed to a singularity and light can't escape that pull.

[@ClockworkDave]

I don't know what dark and festering part of my psyche KZbin has identified, but all of these storm videos are like crack right now.

[@Ketannabis]

Lol good comment 👍🏻

[@Job.Well.Done_01]

Imagine yourself THERE- floating perfectly above it all just like a drone with endless battery power supply or a bird. The power just below you cannot touch you.

[@jayzepickle6637]

Help, it got me too.

[@krystalriley10]

exactly

[@blake_229]

Open a second window and play sea shanties. It'll really amplify the experience 🚢⚓ 🌊

[@MarcusHelius]

Imagine crossing the sea in a Longboat in 700 A.D. and meeting one of those...

[@frankvandendool882]

As you can see in this video, in that sort of boat it's pretty much unsurvivable. The north sea is known for seriously bad weather.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

They didn't cross seas, they hugged the coasts and for crossing they chose the seasons. The ones who didn't choose right we don't know about them for they were never heard from again. Norway to Iceland at 6 knots is about 7 days. Iceland to Greenland in the same conditions plan on 5 days

[@bubbleobill267]

Game over!.

[@Dweller415]

Yeah...

[@beavis4play]

it'd be the last thing they ever saw.

[@conors4430]

My mum lost a cousin in some part of the north Atlantic when he was washed off the fishing trawler he was working on, he was never seen again. The ocean is a majestic and terrible beast

[@jonaeflure]

I can't get over the turquoise water in the deep sea. It's beautiful!

[@JohnWickkkk]

Tortoise water 💦

[@marcforest4937]

@@JohnWickkkk I read it that way the first time too lol

[@JohnWickkkk]

@@marcforest4937 Mandela effect in progress

[@philgray1023]

@John Perez Not as worrying as you think. I've dived under breaking seas that look horrendous on the surface, but are just beautiful under water. Even the dreaded Port Philip rip whirlpools. Just another day out.

[@ianbowden1807]

@John Perez 🤣🤣

[@Bruce-1956]

I sailed many times across the North Sea in the '70s in tankers around 25000 tonnes and when fully loaded we played submarine with this type of waves.

[@mimitaylor5938]

Not a game on my top 10 list. Was in an 85' yacht playing chicken with the waves outrunning a hurricane when I was a wee lass if 13. So nauseated, but thankful to have survived. She was a grand old lady built in 1929. Made for the high seas.

[@masonmunkey6136]

Whole lot of trust in the integrity of the hull lol

[@mimitaylor5938]

We ran wide open day and night to get her to her new home in Florence, Alabama. Daddy hired a captain from Maine and they had a friend to crew. God was my deliverer. Angels must have been holding her together and keeping us out of harms way at night. I remember hearing the rythmic drone of the foghorn every 15 seconds.

[@neilpare8938]

Spent a season on a Factory freezer trawler in the north sea, Riding these kinds of waves humbles you very quickly.

[@RolloZx]

Jesus that is utterly terrifying!! Total respect sir

[@jackieweaver3884]

amazing how its simultaneously the most beautiful sight to see but also has the capacity to topple the mightiest ships

[@modernfurnitures1748]

whatsapp me

[@theresacoy9881]

Beautiful to watch BUT nope, no way!!

[@franksmith541]

That's because you are a wimp. I have been in worse in the Bering Sea and wasn't the slightest bit afraid.

[@theresacoy9881]

@@franksmith541 good for you 👏👏👏

[@jaycobnisbet4439]

@@franksmith541 Look at big boy Frank flexing on everyone he's been in water before🤣Your mom didn't congratulate you for it did she?

[@pluto9403]

@@franksmith541 all you do is flex on people that you were doing shit like this I doubt you did lmao

[@franksmith541]

@@pluto9403 yes, that's "all I do."

[@TheJerzke]

The shear scale of the waves is amazing. Would love to experience weather and waves like this at the least once in my life time.

[@peterenis8447]

No, you don't. Trust me

[@lh7801]

Be careful what you wish for!

[@motoz30]

@@peterenis8447 not everyone's wired the same, p.enis...

[@peterenis8447]

@@motoz30 true. I do understand the urge to experience unfiltered nature, but being caught in a storm like that is nothing to hope for. It's a freaking death trap

[@motoz30]

@@peterenis8447 it's amazing how many folks are caught in storms like the one in the vid and live to tell the tale. cargo ships, cruise liners, fishing vessels, exploratory vessels, oil rigs, etc. they're always out there, and it ain't often you hear about any of 'em going under. like airplanes in severe weather, it's an anomaly when one does go down. (i get what you're saying, dude. just bustin' your balls a bit).

[@williamsullivan5733]

I was on a small aircraft carrier as a marine during a decent storm one time. We were ordered to our birthing and I enjoyed feeling the ship battle the sea and knowing that I was ok because the ship was mighty. I couldnt imagine experiencing this on something not so stable. It would be a completely different experience

[@wuzu633]

idk why but I love these storm videos :D

[@MonthlyFailsVideoResearch]

Me too!

[@Hengry-hn7rb]

Love too me , the storm video that is!

[@warewolf4760]

I know why. Cos you a freak like me 😂

[@wuzu633]

@@warewolf4760 and I still am :D

[@willemkotze2611]

Love it as well, it's man laying down a challenge to mother nature like: 'There's this is what I built, you try and destroy it!'

[@gzz8551]

When I see shit like this I can’t help but be reminded of Bill Burr’s “being a mother is toughest job in the world” joke. 😂

[@LUCENZO87]

Stupid joke

[@gzz8551]

@@LUCENZO87 It’s a great joke. And it’s true.

[@isee7668]

@@LUCENZO87 mothers are so tough that they can't take a joke?

[@WizardxOfxBongs]

@@LUCENZO87 post physique nerd

[@colonelJ77]

Lol great joke

[@bilko1971]

The irony of drilling into the earth for oil when there is so much energy to harvest just splashing against our window....

[@philgray1023]

This is a true, but I worry seriously about the idea that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So we slow the waves or current a little, does that create a negative effect on our ecosystems that is difficult to reverse? I seriously don't know. So any responses are welcome.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

Phil Gray Nah, the amount of energy stored in those north sea waves is enormous. You could power the entire europe with them and still have half the sea left for northern Africa.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

@@cezarcatalin1406 No device could be built by man to withstanding merely a portion of such fury. A simple turbine in the East River of New York was run to pieces in one year

[@frankl.7039]

Hard to drive a car with a ocean wave, but I understand your point.

[@thangnguyen02]

There are attempts to harness this power source but so far I am not aware of any success. Truly wish one day we can rely more on renewable than fossil fuel energy.

[@chasecarlan4750]

you know huge waves on my recommended is something i never wanted, but rather needed

[@justintyme5053]

The North Sea has a reputation for this type of behavior. However, I have experienced similar waves coming within 20 feet of the accommodation deck when anchored in position. The accommodation decks were 80 feet above the water. So 60 foot waves. In the Tasman Sea off New Zealand. Not a great feeling.

[@bigeyetuna6228]

On an oil rig?🍀

[@justintyme5053]

@@bigeyetuna6228 Yes, a semi submersible

[@bigeyetuna6228]

I sailed solo from San Diego to Tahiti, I almost sure if I was on that rig I’d have a heart attack

[@halbification]

Not an oil rig nor a semisubmersible. Just a plain-old ship with a helideck

[@philmccrevis4493]

Exactly.

[@J-PLeigh8409]

The engineering that must go into these structures is incredible, to w/stand the oceans powerful waves

[@georgedredla7599]

She’s alive, she twists and turns looking to persuade you to her depths of darkness

[@Resistculturaldecline]

My ex girlfriend, you know her ?

[@chasseurdechattes8438]

Before someone asks, the guy is saying in Norwegian (not very interesting): fook'en hell, I got in on video, fooken hell

[@digital100000]

Take your word for it. At the same time, just after the first wave has passed sounds like 'what a horrible feelin . . . what a horrible feeling'

[@oholynightowl2968]

It's Swedish.

[@chasseurdechattes8438]

@@oholynightowl2968 It's not, it's Norwegian with a strong provincial accent

[@mimosa7070]

@@oholynightowl2968 No it’s not, it’s Norwegian.

[@AtlanteanVrilChad]

@@oholynightowl2968 its Norwegian

[@mynameisnoneofyourbusiness6747]

🇬🇧 Amazing footage for those that have and never will experience conditions like this. I've been caught up in a force 9 storm, (for about 7 days) in the Blatic sea, I was a deckhand in a yacht race from Riga, Lativa to Travemunde, Germany. What I'd say this. In those kind of conditions you never THINK you're going perish, until it's too late & you do. It's as simple as that. If you did, why would you be out there in the first place? RIP for all those that have found themselves in similar conditions and not made it.

[@Big_Johnson_Long]

So glad to be a member of the huge wave community

[@terrysullivan1992]

Techniquely an oil exploration ship and not a Rig. Still scary though.

[@randynichols9742]

Technically

[@philgray1023]

Just looks like fun to me. I was out there on a ship when they recorded a 72 foot wave on a rig. Plenty of spare sausages at breakfast time.

[@adambgunn]

exactly... a ship not a stationary rig.. rigs are MUCH taller.

[@jonathank5289]

Techniquely probably one of the massive ship holding the floaters as we fisherman call them 100 miles out in the gulf in 5000 ft plus up water. Rigs don't reach the bottom in that depth but two or 3 huge ships hold the rigs in place so they can drill for oil.

[@steviecbf]

You said what I was thinking.

[@connie7128]

NOOOOOPE! I stay on land for a reason. I'd completely freak out in that situation. The ocean is a beautiful thing that I love to visit, but I do so from the shore.

[@kamuelalee]

Bloody hell. I love the land, don't you know.

[@iantawse6138]

This happens a lot when semi submersible rigs ballast down in heavy weather, I worked in the North Sea in the 1970s till 1989 and seen some incredible weather but these rigs and platforms are designed to withstand the storms

[@tortillasarenotbiceps7622]

That was scary to watch, but crying definitely helped.

[@Eric_412]

I work in an underground mine in Australia where Mother Nature is just waiting to kick us in the bum, I will take my environment any day over working offshore..those waves were insane...

[@Ujuani68]

I feel the exact opposite!😀🤷‍♂️

[@BillSikes.]

I'm planning a non-stop circumnavigation by way of the the 'Great Capes' in a 30ft sailing boat, watching this is making me have second thoughts

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Maybe we will pass each other somwwhere

[@Ricovandijk]

Make sure to watch the Vendee Globe and see how a 60' racing yacht copes with the southern ocean :)

[@dwormon8525]

No way

[@DoubleMonoLR]

@@Ricovandijk One boat broke in half in the 2020 race... Fortunately he was rescued.

[@cob.9831]

I'd say give it a "Good Second", third, and fourth thought.

[@VerilyVerbatim]

0:22 That 'oil rig' almost looks like the front of a ship.

[@josephinebennington7247]

You are correct. Those struts support a helipad.

[@didgerb72]

Definitely a ship.

[@rfw700]

It’s a drillship. Which by definition is an oil rig.

[@karelatsea]

@@rfw700 Both answers are correct

[@ushoys]

Whatever, it’s floating.

[@Jack64708]

What I want to know is what is Yoda doing recording on an oil rig🤣🤣

[@Jackson42o]

It's swedish bro xD Translated it means "I got it on video"

[@Jackson42o]

@@Atomsoppen95 oh yea, that's right 😂

[@barbmccafferty4533]

Water is one of the strongest forces in the world. It amazes me that these rigs don't get wiped out.

[@user-ex5jr5to6q]

Absolutely never would I go out there, terrifying.

[@l.faraday8767]

I crossed the North Sea in December from Holyhead Wales to Dublin in a storm. It was rough, people were throwing up. I loved it, it’s when I discovered that I didn’t suffer from sea sickness. Cruising is now my favourite thing to do for a holiday.

[@invisibleman1459]

the irish sea you mean or did you go the long way round

[@kapworld2715]

That dark cold waters... No human can survive in this monster waves

[@kahlernygard809]

Creature craft it lol

[@catweasle5737]

Seems to be rolling with the waves a little too much to be an oil rig.

[@jonathank5289]

Techniquely probably one of the massive ship holding the floaters as we fisherman call them 100 miles out in the gulf in 5000 ft plus up water. Rigs don't reach the bottom in that depth but two or 3 huge ships hold the rigs in place so they can drill for oil.

[@Suspect002]

@@postcardsfromprotest There are extremely large ships that are also oil rigs; they act as easily maneuverable platforms.

[@suverenseverin]

This is Åsgard A in the Norwegian Sea, its a ship/oil rig (FPSO) chained to the sea floor by 12 anchor chains

[@519forestmonk9]

Nothing is more frightening to me than the ocean

[@PhilR.]

What about clowns?

[@eddt430]

Someone earned their corn designing that rig. Jeez the power in those waves.

[@gaymond8637]

I earned my corn by eating men jizz

[@jameswright1645]

I don't fear many things, this video almost put me in a panic attack. Freaking terrifying

[@Altenholz]

This hole mighty power of that waves now fully turnes out with that 4 K resolution- simply stunning and breathtaking!

[@jimrossi7708]

Nonna traveled from Brazil to Italy and then to US by boat in 1902, I always wondered how that was since you couldn’t jump on a plane yet for said travel, never got to ask her since I was very young when she died ! We are spoiled !

[@ArtVanAuggie]

This is a ship, not a platform. Those are about 15 m waves judging by the ship in a trough and the peak in relation to the deck.

[@123Fail321123Fail321]

After the waves the water looks beautiful!

[@simmer484]

Incredible that people design these things

[@robineast6446]

That caused me anxiety just watching that! Wow!

[@gfrank87]

My hats off to you gentlemen. Wouldn’t catch me out there. Great video

[@dronelton47]

*Am I the only one here that gets Sea Sick just from watching this on fullscreen?*

[@melo7572]

Yes

[@usha9807]

That is bloody terrifying...

[@yourboss516]

Nope... I don't wanna work on one of these vessels.

[@warewolf4760]

Lovely day for a swim

[@peterclarke3619]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but have you ever filled your bath to the top then rapidly slid down so your shoulders are under water and awaited the impending tsunami approaching from the tap end ? The effect is almost identical.

[@nickmorgan1690]

That must be a surreal sensation, staying stationary in between the waves

[@alkojoo1287]

Amazing

[@harbourwoodlandvisitor2445]

i remember one of the captains of the now retired 1968 ocean liner Cunards Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2 talking about the time he had seen a wave of 100 feet in height hitting the ship so hard it bent some of the hand rails on the upper outer decks. it must have been one heck of a strong ship that only had some hand rails bent and come out the other side. this happened twice in the ships forty year sailing years. now she has an easy life an plush static floating hotel in Dubai.

[@bigeyetuna6228]

Gnarly, really Gnarly!!! I consider myself a salty guy but this unbelievably scary shit🍀💚

[@timmalecha6311]

Holy big waves Batman!

[@jefryt67]

How does that survive such force?

[@getchasome6230]

Sometimes they dont.

[@MetalDEmpire]

I thought you meant just the crest of the wave reaches the windows, not the whole fukn ocean for 2 seconds. thats too much water for me

[@Oakleaf700]

Watch in slowest speed {if on laptop} {go to 'settings' icon on the right at the bottom} and the sheer mass of all that water looks even worse as it slowly rises up to the top of the Structure...No wonder the men filming were 😮😶🤔😳😨😱😲😬!

[@jamesfrost5261]

I've been out there in the baltic/ north Atlantic, its not a fun ride in a smaller navy ship. We took a 46 degree roll, any more and we would of lost the radar.

[@melissalove2463]

Damn that would be terrifying! There’s nowhere to run . 😱

[@philgray1023]

Except to the toilet.

[@stevewebber5966]

You could always go for a dip!

[@elevendashlies6273]

Feeling the power of Mother Nature

[@desolatemetro]

That first breaking wave is the craziest I've ever seen on video. With a lot of big wave videos you think, it would be very difficult and very bad and very dangerous to be out there in a smaller boat, but you could probably get through it. That first one was a killer, though. Take that in a 45 foot sailboat and your life is in serious jeapoardy.

[@CraigPremium]

I liked the part with the wind blowing

[@brettfowler9241]

😳😳😳 the only thing I can say is thank you to the people that made that structure.

[@motaka3381]

Thank you

[@CaptainYokkiller]

I get anxious when I feel my apartment shake from high winds, my anxiety would be through the roof if I lived on one of those.

[@argentum3919]

What is your building made of?

[@Teresa-L.2024]

Took a ferry from UK to Sweden in a storm like that. Lovely....not! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

There is a video somewhere of a “platform” in the North Sea with waves hitting the accommodation block.

[@janemcnvein6317]

its so beautiful and terrifying

[@dompawn]

The front fell off!

[@lydiapetra1211]

Wow....those are huge,scary, angry but beautiful waves....

[@TheMegaberg]

I would be on the horn calling HQ to get me the Effen out of there!

[@getchasome6230]

They probably wouldnt be able to in a storm like that. You're on your own

[@DARTHDANSAN]

The power of ocean is amazing

[@baffledanderanged2101]

Awesome sight, scary too.🤪😲 These people who travel the seas like this certainly have what it takes 🤗👏, but I think I'm gonna be sea sick... 🤢😂 Thank you once again Licet Studios ❣️❣️

[@franklesser5655]

Such a pretty color of blue!

[@Hengry-hn7rb]

Captain yes lad , I’m taking the whole bottle of sleeping pills wake me up when you see dirt , rocks, soil you know Earth!

[@demonetizedhistory5806]

I was planning on going for my first kayak in the ocean, I'm now reconsidering.

[@onoffgeorg9828]

sometimes these moments are the last in this life..

[@willdodd2810]

0:11 "yah, harder puffin, yah harder puffin"

[@REAL_MPSS]

That is a bad design. No semisubmersible should see green water anywhere near the deck. I think that is one of the Sevan rigs.

[@rfw700]

It’s a drillship.

[@jsut3764]

Clueless.

[@REAL_MPSS]

@@jsut3764 don’t be so harsh on yourself, you can always learn.

[@Overlycomplicatedswede]

This is why you only see gigantic ships travel through the rough waters surrounding Scandinavia. Everything over here screams insane like are climate,are sea etc Greetings from Sweden

[@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe]

It’s obviously a ship. People just lie every chance they get these days. Sad world

[@jquest43]

its stupidity

[@Vandalsounds]

How high are the windows under normal conditions?

[@reasonableobserver1695]

How much get these sea people paid? I bet not enough! I would never put a feet on such a oil rig lol

[@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8]

Hence the High Pay

[@KeithRoss039]

I read they get paid about £500 per day.

[@crazyhorse3854]

The power of nature is something amazing. So is the enginuity human beings.

[@nohabloemojislosiento4930]

"Being a mother is the hardest job in the world."

[@jamesd5241]

a man of culture. and even better your channel name! yo tambien no hablo emoji's

[@marybethjordan8520]

I would love that! It was exhilarating to sail through storms when I lived aboard...but of course I wasn't the skipper lol

[@phapnui]

Watching this reinforces my decision not to work in the North Sea in tugboats around the oil rigs. I was in Edinburgh, Scotland waiting to sign up and a stranger approached me and asked if I knew what I was getting into. Not knowing anything except good pay, I asked him to go ahead and explain. Kind of job you can't quit whilst at sea. And monster waves was all he needed to tell me but didn't.

[@Idk-qs4nr]

Overreacting🙄

[@cmcc4662]

Bullshit, Where in Edinburgh did this fantasy take place? This is not how shipping works in the UK, I've worked offshore on ships for past 30 years, jog on Walter Mitty

[@Jorpando]

I have a Danish friend who works on oil rigs in the north sea. He loves it, and he's always trying to recruit me xD reality is you're not working when it's bad weather so it limits risks.

[@jasonsamuels3522]

Literally mountainous waves

[@Tangyeagle64]

This is really cool to see form the perspective of a a stationary object

[@irfansarfrazconstruction7167]

Good jobs 👍

[@AlexanderRamsey]

"beep beep beep" The oh shit monitor is beeping

[@Nessy-eu9my]

The wind is screaming and the boat is creaking straight out of a horror movie

[@Qrama]

Not a boat, it's an oilrig. It even says so in the title :)

[@wmden1]

Waves this size and fast coming, put untold stress on the platform and it's support structure. I would not want to be there, at all.

[@leoniemillerl4487]

I’m sure I heard it creaking. 🌬 🌊 🤮

[@VileCAESARB]

..it's a boat.

[@wmden1]

@@VileCAESARB Thanks. When the writer used the word "oil-rig", I figured it was a platform. It didn't appear to be pitching, to me. Whichever, I still wouldn't want to be there.

[@VileCAESARB]

@@wmden1 No worries bro, I wasn't replying to you :) was replying to the person saying it was creaking, which boats do haha. Thanks for being cool about it anyway. I am no expert by any means but people who are say its a ship that helps keep a platform in place while they drill, cool stuff anyway. Have you watched North Sea Big Wave?

[@wmden1]

@@VileCAESARB No problem from my end, either. I just checked that video, you mentioned. I seem to remember watching a couple of years ago. The dude laughing sounded like a Robin Williams, off the cuff, character. It got me how they were laughing, not sounding nervously, in waves like that. I don't think they were on a comfortably large ship, either. I don't even want to find out what my mental state would be in, under those circumstances.

[@skyecooper]

That is an unsettling number of alarms going off after the wave hits...

[@storytimewithunclebill1998]

That has to be scary. Awesome footage. Great video

[@Reality_TV]

Can we all just take a minute and process what it would be like to be ON A BOAT and see a wave like that coming at you? WOW!

[@dv8740]

How are these rigs able to stand up to this kind of wave action? I don't get it. So unreal.

[@mikestand714]

there is a couple places in the world i dont ever want to be..this place is one of them.

[@lordofnothing255]

Now that is an exciting work environment.

[@nofrontn]

This is the most terrifying video 😱