A big well done on hitting that big 8!
You do seem a wee bit Hivenumber OCD but why not eh.
The See monster does look like a small Southern Nothern Sea Gas platform, based on it's shape.
Oil and gas is my background and it is far too small to have been used in the Nothern North Sea, nor would I think it was an oil rig. Traditionally a rig only becomes a rig if there is a drilling derrick or drilling rig present. I doubt that the See Monster had one. As it came from Holland I would put my money on it being a retired Southern Nothern Sea Gas platform.
I actually saw an article where it was mentioned in The Telegraph this week as it is part of the UNBOXED celebration.
this led me down a rabbit hole to find that SEE MONSTER is one of ten major creative projects commissioned as part of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK. However these projects are only in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Scotland and its alleged leadership leaves a lot to be desired at times..
Back to the question you posed and kudos to you for vounteering, I would think it is aimed at children with visual impairments, based on the hand and dogpaw. So am thinking guide dogs, if so that will be interesting, many platforms use gratings as walkways, many dogs don't like walking on these.
Either way, I shall be looking for your update post. One good thing isthat you won't be on See Monster in the North Sea with gle force 8 winds and 100 foot seas. Not fun I tell you, especially when the weather stops the choppers flying and your two week rotation offshore becomes four 🤣
I never knew you were in the oil and gas industry, and I never knew there's a difference between Southern Northern Sea and Northern North Sea 😅
I think they mentioned that this was part of a larger rig, there were four bits to it, and they got the smaller bit. Does that make sense?
And you're absolutely correct about it being part of the Unboxed project. The project is so delayed that it's missed the entire summer holiday and is now target to open sometime this month. I have another newer post where they did a drone show to create awareness about the See Monster, luckily that went down well with the locals who were not pleased at all with the delays.
When I put my hand up to volunteer a few months ago, I said I wouldn't mind going on the top deck as I figured it would be lovely to be 35m high looking out in the sea. But now I'm not sure if I want to battle that in the autumn months and it gets dark much earlier. We might not get the North Sea force 8 winds here, but it's still pretty windy!!!
Quite often you had little clusters of platforms that are close together, so it might be one of those.
Yep was in oil and gas for many years and got paid to work all over the world, so was fun although most of the places were in war-torn countries. That is what oil greed and corruption does to people.
Yes I read it was delayed and then shocked to find it was only for two months. Well make sure you do wear some thick jackets when you go up top, although I am sure if it is too windy, they won't let visitors on!
Just watched the 400 drones video, that was epic, although seeing them all line up reminded me of Star Wars, and then seeing them in action was amazing however also terrifying to me, thinking about what could happen when they do that themselves.
I loved the animated See Monster, that reminded me of Nessie:)