New Oil Rig Drama


I tell you what though he is making an absolute fortune.

Says it’s the best wages of his life. He gets nice hotels flights the lot.

Had to go early last rotation to get loads of biometric stuff done prior to going offshore.
Needs to be to keep himself eating those expensive crisps
 
Stuck it out for 10 minutes, one of the worst parcels of shit ive ever watched on TV.
Bares no resemblence to anything ive ever seen offshore 😀
 
I did the offshore game for 34 years
Gave me a good living, but gave up a lot.
Missed family births, weddings and funerals.
But, hey ho, it was a canny number.
Met some great lads.
 
I recruited a bloke in the Chemical Industry once who was applying because he’d been in a helicopter crash whilst travelling to or from a rig where he worked. I forget which, it was all over the news at the time. He got the job but packed in about 6 months later iirc, to go back on the rigs. Coz of the money. I thought he was mad.

Anyway, Im just about to watch the final episode of The Rig now. It’s very good, well made, some good actors. Didn’t recognise the (receptionist) lass from Schitts Creek at first.
 
I recruited a bloke in the Chemical Industry once who was applying because he’d been in a helicopter crash whilst travelling to or from a rig where he worked. I forget which, it was all over the news at the time. He got the job but packed in about 6 months later iirc, to go back on the rigs. Coz of the money. I thought he was mad.

Anyway, Im just about to watch the final episode of The Rig now. It’s very good, well made, some good actors. Didn’t recognise the (receptionist) lass from Schitts Creek at first.
Looked like a lot of CGI being used in the 10 mins i watched?
 
I did the offshore game for 34 years
Gave me a good living, but gave up a lot.
Missed family births, weddings and funerals.
But, hey ho, it was a canny number.
Met some great lads.
Dad was the same. Binned it as son as he had a sniff of redundancy.

Got offered mad money to go back as a contractor but flat out refused. Said he'd done his time.
 
Looked like a lot of CGI being used in the 10 mins i watched?

Hmmm. CGI is the last thing you’d expect in a ‘supernatural’ (actually more like SciFi) drama about…

…an ancient entity that has a type of ‘hive mind’ has survived all extinction events on earth but is now endangered due to oil drilling etc and is attempting to communicate with humanity via the use of spores that invade minds and bodies and cause wounds to heal and flesh to regenerate when injured…

…nope; that kind of shit is normally done with puppets.
fancy this cause i like the scottish actor.. but his last one about the sumberine was fcking awful.. is this one better..

Are you talking about Vigil? The sumberine drama starring his female Line of Duty co-star?
 
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Son in laws mate is a offshore diver who spends most of his time in a pressure vessel due to the mixed gas he needs to breath.
Earns plenty but the lads a nightmare when on leave.
Could start a fight in a empty room.
 
Son in laws mate is a offshore diver who spends most of his time in a pressure vessel due to the mixed gas he needs to breath.
Earns plenty but the lads a nightmare when on leave.
Could start a fight in a empty room.

Only bloke I’ve met who was a diver was an absolute headcase, would be your best mate one minute and want to kill someone the next. Deffo had some kind of brain damage like.
 

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