Reply #98: Drilling-Rig Telepathy [View All]

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My father worked as Chief of the watch on an oil rig. He had a trailer next to the rig where he slept (on call and on-site 24x7 for two weeks at a time). He could sleep like a baby through almost deafening noise, but with the slightest change in either the rhythm, the pitch, or the volume he would be instantly awake and racing up the gangway to see what was wrong. He knew exactly how the rig should sound when it was drilling properly, and when it was not.