It has been edited for length and clarity. Working on an oil rig has always been my dream job. It sounded like an adventure. When I left school at 16, I decided to get a job in construction.

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how ...

Furthermore, working in ultra-deepwaters ... dynamic positioning can be used as well as mooring lines to keep the rig in place. Dynamic positioning uses different motors or propulsion units ...