Monday, August 19, 2013

August 19, 2013: A Sense Of Scale

365 Project, Day 59
Here is my day fifty-nine submission to my 365Project:

We have been passing very close to Kuito FPSO this past week and I always find it so interesting just how small people look when we see them walking around on this beast...like this guy going for his evening stroll around the heli-deck. 


Fun fact of the day:

In 1996 the Troll A platform set the World Guiness Record for the world's largest offshore gas platform with an overall height of 472 m. In 2006, for the 10th anniversary of Statoil's operatorship of Troll A, Katie Melua held a concert at the base of the platform and the concert set a new world record for the deepest underwater  concert at 303 m below sea level. 

You can search for more interesting world records on the Guiness World Records webpage.

Read more about Troll A platform here




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