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[kopf]

Ultra deep water pipeline? You need one of these to put it in.
(cable boat)

Cool pics

Why does the cable/pipe need to go so high up before heading down and into the sea?

Because they have to do all sorts of stuff to the cable between the reel and the sea and they need the space IIRC.

It's not cable, it's steel pipe. The tower serves several purposes.
First, it either bends or straightens the pipe, depending on whether they are spooling up or spooling out. Here is a shot looking up into the bending machine.



Second, it acts as the tension machine or braking mechanism. All that pipe between the vessel and the seabed is HEAVY, without a tension machine there it would unspool uncontrollably fast, wrecking pretty much everything. Sorry, this one is a bit blurry but it is a shot looking down into the tension machine.



Third, they occasionally need to strap on buoys, strakes, and beacons or sometimes cut the pipe and weld on subsea installations such as PLEMs, PLETs, valves, manifolds etc. In order to do that, they need a work station. That is what the big box thing is, a big work station with decks that can open, tilt, slide up and down etc. First pic is a buoy being attached to the pipeline.



This set shows strakes being placed on the pipeline in the top deck of the work station, then the straps are tightened with pneumatic tools in the lower deck. Keep in mind the pipeline is constantly moving the entire time from top (spool side) to bottom (sea bed). At full blast we managed to keep up a 10-12 meter per minute pipe movement rate. If you fuck up and they have to stop spooling, everyone on the crew gives you a massive dose of shit talking.





The entire tower can slide from left to right (port to starboard) and can tilt from 90 degrees down to I think 30 degrees. That last number I am pulling out of my ass, I cannot remember the exact figure. The tilt allows the ship to roll up pre-fabricated stalks of pipe from shore based installations. Here's a shot of the same vessel in port spooling up several miles worth of pipe, see how the tower is tilted? Walls, they become floors!



How much pipe can it hold? Well, that depends on the size of the pipe really. This vessel can handle pipe up to 20" OD. I think. Again, I can't remember the exact figure. Here's an idea of how many stalks we fabricated. Keep in mind, each one is 3/4 of a mile long and I think we ran 55+ stalks.

[whispous]

Engineering porn

[Shiroi Okami]

Seriously, that's some amazing stuff. I had no idea ships like that even existed, I'd never really though about the engineering marvel that deep sea pipe laying actually is

[Shiodome]

Thanks for adding reputation to this user. May you be lucky enough to see another interesting post in the image thread in your lifetime.

[XenosisReaper]

Thanks for adding reputation to this user. May you be lucky enough to see another interesting post in the image thread in your lifetime.

[Dark Flare]

[Spaztick]

Thanks for adding reputation to this user. May you be lucky enough to see another interesting post in the image thread in your lifetime.

[SteeleResolve]

Thanks for adding reputation to this user. May you be lucky enough to see another interesting post in the image thread in your lifetime.

Great pics

[Muffinsrevenger]

Engineering porn

Engineering boner

[lubica]

And that, mentlegen, is how you harvest reps.

[zergl]

And that, mentlegen, is how you harvest reps.

By reposting /r/funny or facebook (*cough* cheeba *cough*) or a boobies circlejerk (Jolin).

kopf probably made buckets of those pics, but in terms of effort/rep, there's more efficient ways.

[Rans]

Don't care, kopf's pics deserve their own thread.

[Dirk Magnum]

It's like Truckasaurus had a baby with a freight train and old timey bicycle. Awesome.

[Doomed Predator]

And that, mentlegen, is how you harvest reps.

By reposting /r/funny or facebook (*cough* cheeba *cough*) or a boobies circlejerk (Jolin).

kopf probably made buckets of those pics, but in terms of effort/rep, there's more efficient ways.

So you're saying the pictures here aren't 100% originals either made or dug up from the most obscure of places by honorable posters?!

[Al Simmons]

You could replace this thread with a link to imgur.com tbh.

[spasm]

You could replace this thread with a link to imgur.com tbh.

We could replace your posting with a link to meatspin.com.

[Xiang Jiao]

You could replace this thread with a link to imgur.com tbh.

I believe I've posted images that weren't on Imgur (until I put them there), as have others.

[Cue1*]

You could replace this thread with a link to imgur.com tbh.

We could replace your posting with a link to meatspin.com.

That would be an improvement to be quite fucking honest.

[XenosisReaper]

You could replace this thread with a link to imgur.com tbh.

We could replace your posting with a link to meatspin.com.

That would be an improvement to be quite fucking honest.

[marcus xero]