Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
^^^ Yes... very busy.

I'm doing a very busy night shift! We're at least two men down due to Covid and that has put an awful lot of extra work on us if we're to keep up with acquisition and not have a huge backlog at the end of the job to take into the next project.


This is 150km from shore and over 2km down, and the seabed is covered with plastic crap. It's incredibly depressing but I guess the only good thing is that there's nothing living at the bottom of the Black Sea to be effected by it. It's also no-where near as bad as the seabed in the Mediterranean.




Mendip good to hear from you, only 4 weeks til you can see your mum.

I should imagine your stock has risen with the company, with bailing them out somewhat.

Its staggering to note on the first pic above that in the early days of the pipeline they had Thais working on it, clearly it didn't last but you can see where Somchai the village handyman has improvised with the ubiquitous blue PVC pipe, bless im.

It is depressing seeing all that plastic everywhere, you can only imagine how much is in all the seas, and you can only hope things improve but it'll be there for centuries and in the food chain.

Looking at the shots of the pipeline, you can see it is getting buried and soonish it'll be completely under a layer of silt.