Drilling Crew
2006; Oceanography Society; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5670/oceanog.2006.22
ISSN2377-617X
Autores Tópico(s)Drilling and Well Engineering
ResumoWhere would scientifi c ocean drilling be without the drilling crew?Nowhere, leaving scientists naval-gazing in the ivory tower.Th e crew provides the mud and rock that make our science possible, end of story.At the same time, close quartering with these roustabouts, roughnecks, drillers, toolpushers, and occasional weevils (crew newbie) enriches our life at sea because of the fascinating diff erences in our cultures (for defi nitions of these terms and others used here, go to http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com).Most shipboard scientists, aff ectionately(?)referred to by the crew as rock docs, geos, pebble pimps, stone squirrels, and doodlebuggers (geophysicists), fi rst encounter a rig crew on their maiden voyage, possibly when boarding the vessel or en route to the ship's mess, hotel, or lab stack.Th e behemoth drillers on the JOIDES Resolution exude authority rightly theirs, since the ship is home to these stud ducks six months out of every year.Th ey observe the scientists with bemused curiosity knowing that these visitors will be a great source of entertainment for the next two months.Th e crew's telltale work clothes, hard hats, and toothpicks defi ne them as much as their secret language that's concurrently confusing, descriptive, vivid, agrarian, and humorous.Did the barnyard-related drilling terms, such as pig, rabbit, cathead, doghouse, fi sh, blind ram, rathole, gooseneck, and go-devil carry forward, unevolved, all the way from Texas farms?Does a roustabout become a roughneck, and why is a toolpusher superior to a driller?What does it mean when crew go from the monkey board to the mouse hole to the moon pool?Ack! Take me back to my microscope and mass spectrometer.Th is photo shows a Seacore drilling crew on the Swedish icebreaker Vidar Viking on the Arctic Coring Expedition, of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, the fi rst mission-specifi c platform eff ort.Th e crew are proudly indicating their achievement of reaching 320 meters below the seafl oor in water depth that was over 1200 meters.Some smile slightly, while others are formal, possibly stiff , refl ecting the cold and exhaustion from a long shift at the North Pole.Th e man on the left looks like a character from a daguerreotype, staring out from the silver halide.Th e crew, from Cornwall, UK, are equally facile with pipe tongs as they are with shotguns, to ward off polar bears looking to board the low-slung vessel from the sea ice.With great pride, they fl ew the Cornwall fl ag, that of St. Piran, the patron saint of miners.How appropriate.
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