For safety, sailors wear helmets, life vests and body armour and carry knives to cut themselves free from fallen rigging.
The legs of someone just behind them were trapped beneath the fallen rigging, and, as people shrieked and cried and searched for relatives, Dr. Klinestiver and others began desperately trying to free scores of people.
A slack technician might have led to his demise (he was hit by a falling lighting rig that left him paralysed from the neck down) but somehow he pulled himself together for one final push.
This combination has forced the stock sharply lower in recent weeks, with RIG falling more than 26% from its late-May peak above $160 per share.
The ships exchanged fire for twenty minutes, the weaker Bellerophon taking severe damage to her rigging, and falling back to be replaced by HMS Marlborough under Captain George Cranfield Berkeley.
By the same token, the cost of hiring some kinds of drilling rigs is falling.
Had the replacements been done correctly, he said, they would have prevented the rig from falling.
J D Drew, portrayed by Keith Carradine with his trademark laid-back amiability, recently got fired after falling off an oil rig.
Lots of gas and falling prices sent many rigs heading to oil-rich shales to take advantage of high prices for crude.
Though Ukraine gave up its nukes and has 1,700 troops in Iraq, it has an autocratic ruler in Leonid Kuchma, reportedly rigging its fall elections.
