Offshore oil drilling platforms--Relevant web sites?

Factual Questions
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Does anyone know some good sites aimed at nonspecialists who want to learn more about how they are built, how people live and work on them, and so on? Is life on the rig reasonably confortable considering the situation or is it
unbearably confining?

Hi Anthracite!! I know this isn’t exactly your area but somehow it seems as if you’ll be dropping in.

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Here is one site that explains a bit about life on the rig-

http://offshoreguides.com/BOOK/21_what_it_is_like.htm
This part of the page has info on the types of rigs, etc.

http://offshoreguides.com/book.htm

I’ll see if I can find some more.

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Here is a site from a offshore rig diver. Some articles on life on the rigs.

http://rsdeepsea.topcities.com/storyindex.html

The Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum-

http://www.oceanstaroec.com/

And just for fun, the website for Offshore Oil Services, a crewboat company that services several oil rigs off the Texas Gulf Coast that Bunnypapa has worked for.

http://www.offshoreoil.com/

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I found this site just today, from an article on CNN.com about a rig that sank off the coast of Brazil:

http://www.offshore-technology.com/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/03/20/brazil.rig.04/index.html