I've been on a boat for the the past week for work. I don't want to talk about too many of the details because I'm not strictly sure that that is allowed. Also, it is probably not that interesting anyway. Suffice it to say that I am in the Gulf of Mexico on a BOAT.
I got here by helicopter! It was super exciting times for me because I've never been on one before. Here is a picture of the helicopter:
The only really weird part was the take-off and about two-feet afterwards which were very jerky. The pilot looked kind of a lot like Coach Matt, tiny head and all, so we shall be calling him Pilot Matt for the purposes of the next five minutes. Pilot Matt had a very similar attitude about the whole thing to how I would imagine Coach Matt handling a helicopter set-up. They are very careful about how weight is distributed in the helicopter, so when a dude sat in the wrong seat Pilot Matt pulled out a notebook which had a diagram explaining how this dude sitting in the wrong seat would slowly tear the universe (our helicopter) apart.
Luckily that did not happen. Here is a picture of the side of my colleague Edwin's glasses. The ocean got in the way a bit, but you can tell that his glasses are very snazzy.
Here is the infamous BOAT. You may notice that there is just generally a lot of STUFF on the deck of the BOAT. Usually it is used as a pipe lay vessel (not what we are doing)m which is what those big red reels in the middle and the white doohickey at the back are for. The BOAT is about 500ft long and the accommodations (at the front) are about 8 stories high, to give you a size comparison.
We've been calling the BOAT the MSV Red October because...
things are still a bit..... Soviet up in here.
More pictures (including idyllic offshore sunsets!) to come later on!!
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