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Offshore oil rig: Island living, but no paradise
May 20, 2012
May 20, 2012
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(CBS News) Lee Cowan travels to the Gulf of Mexico to visit an off-shore oil rig - a man-made island where crews rough it around the clock:
Out past Louisiana's bayous, in the grey blue waters of the Gulf, you'll find a chain of iron islands that never sleep.
An offshore oil rig is a noisy, grimy, cramped existence.
But for the roustabouts on deck, and the roughnecks manning the drill, life on a mechanical island has rewards all its own.
"I've raised a family off of it, three kids, sent them to college, own my own home," said Mike
Out past Louisiana's bayous, in the grey blue waters of the Gulf, you'll find a chain of iron islands that never sleep.
An offshore oil rig is a noisy, grimy, cramped existence.
But for the roustabouts on deck, and the roughnecks manning the drill, life on a mechanical island has rewards all its own.
"I've raised a family off of it, three kids, sent them to college, own my own home," said Mike
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