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Here are some pictures that a professional photographer took around the rig, wish I was cool enough to say I climbed the derrick or took these as I was flying overhead in the chopper...but regardless one of the drillers passed them along me. Being one of the few females out here has its perks at times, with getting the in to pictures like this, rock cuttings from 12,000ft below the sea, or obtaining other third party paraphenalia like hats/tally books/stickers/etc.

The first is from up in the derrick looking down onto the top drive (the device that turns the drillsting and is suspended from the hook):



Work boats loading/unloading supplies/tools/fuel/etc.:

The white section on the bow is the crew quarters; the four floors I talked about in a previous post. You can kind of make out the two forward lifeboats (orange) on the second floor, and up on the 4th (where the multiple windows line up) is the bridge.

Over head shot, towards the bottom-right is the bow again (you can see the 2 orange life boats). View of the helipad and two large cranes on board. My unit sits right next to the helipad (so port side, aft of the pad):