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Old 08-17-2014, 01:22 PM   #1
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75 mile out of Galveston (video)

A couple of us going to school A&M here in Galveston hopped aboard a friends boat and ran out 75mi and had a blast!

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Old 08-17-2014, 02:57 PM   #2
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Cool video. I've always wanted to dive some rigs
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Old 08-17-2014, 03:29 PM   #3
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Re: 75 mile out of Galveston (video)

Nice video! Those ling go batcrap crazy when you get em close, I lost mine a trip ago grr
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Old 08-17-2014, 03:42 PM   #4
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Re: 75 mile out of Galveston (video)

Ya, when my buddy went to grab it, it smacked him in the face and swam off....
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Old 08-18-2014, 02:13 AM   #5
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Arghh! =)
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Old 08-19-2014, 01:36 AM   #6
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Re: 75 mile out of Galveston (video)

Nice vid. Glad you could finally make it out to that blue water. Some good rigs out there 75mi. A bunch close in, a few at 50mi, and a whole lot of them 75mi out (I'm thinking the intersection rigs area).

I like the mangroves, they are always a good bet. Still bustin' those crevalle jacks huh?
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Old 08-19-2014, 08:50 PM   #7
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Badass! My buddy went out of Port O last weekend and said blue water was only 9 miles out!
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Milkjug, I'll eat anything I shoot, and I'll shoot anything I can eat....
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Re: 75 mile out of Galveston (video)

Nice vid..congrats on finally getting out to blue..Did you guys go out that far due to low vis at closer rigs, crowed rigs or was going 75mi part of the plan? Curious about what's happening in the gulf considering they are saying so many rigs are no longer accessible.
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Old 08-26-2014, 09:35 PM   #10
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We had numbers to stop at that rig and hook some bait then head on out and fish the shrimpers for tuna but the gas gauge had us concerned so we held there... It was the first deep trip of the boat and the gauge showed that 4/10 bars is what it took to get there but it only took 1/10 bars to get home... So the next trip went 125 and brought back 40 black fin...
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Re: 75 mile out of Galveston (video)

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Nice vid..congrats on finally getting out to blue..Did you guys go out that far due to low vis at closer rigs, crowed rigs or was going 75mi part of the plan? Curious about what's happening in the gulf considering they are saying so many rigs are no longer accessible.
Curious what you mean by platforms no longer being accessible?
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Old 08-27-2014, 08:33 AM   #12
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Most of those "near-shore" non-accessible rigs have been removed below the mudline, from the Florabama to Brownsville.
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Gotcha, so they've been decommissioned. Is there a database made available to the public where these jackets are wet parked for reefs?
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Most are onshore, at breaking yards or being refurbished for redeployment. Since most of these were made for relatively shallow water, and most new exploration worldwide is being done in much deeper water they are unlikely to be reused as is.

The only bright side is that if you want large diameter used steel structural pipe there is a bunch available from scrapyards, courtesy of MMS and the Sierra Club. The down side is that the near-shore fishing and fish stocks west of the Mississippi River have been destroyed in the name of "environmentalism."
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