Not trying to toot my own horn, by any means, but this was the kind of stuff I was worried about when I was posting the data from a buoy 42040 (here and here) 64nm south of Dauphin Island:
A runaway oil drilling platform that beached at Dauphin Island was carried more than 60 miles during Hurricane Katrina from its original location, according to its Texas-based owner.
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc., a contract driller based in Houston, said no one was on board the rig when broke it loose during the hurricane early Monday from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast and about 66 miles southwest of Dauphin Island.
Y’all have probably seen the pictures on TV. Not finding any on the ‘Net. Being on the starbord side of a hurricane is bad mojo.
