80 miles offshore is what depth?
The platform owned by Mariner Energy is in about 2,500 feet of water,
Source: Houston Chronicle.
The Chron is wrong. Vermilion 380 is 319 feet deep.
Willie the difference between you and me is that I don’t need to go to the Houston Chronicle, I’ve laid pipeline in that field (although it’s been a few years). It’s not 2,500’ deep. That is a fixed platform, probably no more than 5-600’ deep.