Ratickle
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Have any of you been following this? Can't imagine being on that thing. They all look topheavy to start with....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjJVBdvzGOM
Moscow - A Russian oil rig capsized during a storm in the Pacific early Sunday, killing at least two while dozens remained missing.
Fourteen of the 67 workers on board the oil rig were rescued from the water, which had a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius, the regional civil protection minister Taimuraz Kasayev told Interfax news agency.
The search for survivors in the Sea of Okhotsk, in Russia's far east, was hampered by 5-metre high waves, snowfall and icy winds.
Several boats were reportedly searching for survivors from the Kolskaya rig, which had completely sunk. They had encountered two rescue boats, but both were empty.
The rescued men had worn life jackets but were suffering from hypothermia, Kasayev said. A helicopter was taking them to hospital.
The incident occurred around 200 kilometres offshore from the island of Sakhalin, in the north-western Pacific. The oil rig was being towed by an ice breaker at the time.
Sakhalin, lying off the east coast of Siberia between Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula, is more than 10,000 kilometres from Moscow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjJVBdvzGOM
Moscow - A Russian oil rig capsized during a storm in the Pacific early Sunday, killing at least two while dozens remained missing.
Fourteen of the 67 workers on board the oil rig were rescued from the water, which had a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius, the regional civil protection minister Taimuraz Kasayev told Interfax news agency.
The search for survivors in the Sea of Okhotsk, in Russia's far east, was hampered by 5-metre high waves, snowfall and icy winds.
Several boats were reportedly searching for survivors from the Kolskaya rig, which had completely sunk. They had encountered two rescue boats, but both were empty.
The rescued men had worn life jackets but were suffering from hypothermia, Kasayev said. A helicopter was taking them to hospital.
The incident occurred around 200 kilometres offshore from the island of Sakhalin, in the north-western Pacific. The oil rig was being towed by an ice breaker at the time.
Sakhalin, lying off the east coast of Siberia between Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula, is more than 10,000 kilometres from Moscow.
