[Leica] Valve room picture

[Mark Rabiner]

Amazing!


On 7/22/14 1:45 PM, "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Mark,
> Thank's for your comments on "The Valve Room." At the time the picture
> was taken I was a consultant for the NAS and usually snapped pictures
> of the sites I visited. Most were for my own personal file but I sold a
> few to incorporate in annual reports. The valve room is the control
> center of the Cognac oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig
> itself is a tower as tall as the Empire State Building fastened to the
> sea floor. Drilling takes place from a platform on top of the rig to
> 5000 feet below sea level with drill holes angled in all directions.
> Very impressive. I don't know if the guy in the picture is lighting a
> cigarette. Smoking was discouraged but, at the time, the rules were
> very loosely enforced. A few disastrous explosions, the most recent
> being th BP spill a few years ago, tightened up the regulations.
> Workers in the offshore drilling industry joked that the worst health
> hazard was all the weight they gained from eating all those 4000
> calorie meals during their two week work stint.
> Larry Z
> - - -
> Mark writes:
> That valve room shot is amazing! The scale of the valves against the
> guys
> way back there is not often done. As in I've never ever seen it done!
> Originality is hard to come by!
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/The+valve+room.jpg.html
> 
> Is that guy in the back lighting up a ciggy? Or is that a huge piece of
> lint
> coming out of his face? Inquiring Rabs wants to know!
> 
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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