Part of Iranian oil platform sinks during installation (VIDEO)

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Published time: February 04, 2013 13:28
Edited time: February 10, 2013 21:41

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Iranian oil workers had to jump for their lives when part of a multi-million dollar oil platform began to sink into the Persian Gulf.

New video of last week's sinking shows the workers running along the structure and diving into the water as the ‘jacket’ of the $40 million rig plunges under the waves.

The rig was being installed in the South Pars field by Iran’s POGC and the builder Iranian Marine Industrial which is controlled by the country’s Revolutionary Guards, says Dow Jones newswires.

Reuters reports the local Mehr news agency saying Iran had asked for foreign help to retrieve the oil rig from 80 meters down in the Gulf.

Iran is faced with an import ban of key oil exploration technology, and has embarked on building its own equipment.

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Vikram 06.02.2013 10:26

Tomasz (unregistered) February 06, 2013, 13:37 You should join the police force with those detective skills. Can't you even tell when you're being mocked? NB Does it say "Tomasz" on your birth certificate?

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Tomasz (unregistered) 06.02.2013 09:37

Vikram wrote in #5
Tomasz (unregistered) February 05, 2013, 20:05Hmmm - I assume you have the same attitude to Arabs what with the news about Fayan Al-Ghamdi recently - and Russians too considering RT itself has reported a threefold increase in paedophilia in Russia in recent years.Your racist ranting makes you sound really silly - keep it up. See if you can out froth your last post without breaching the posting guidelines. There must be further depravity in that tiny little mind of yours that you'd like to share with the world.PS how come you're so sure that I'm Indian????
I don't care about what you animals think.Keep your surprise sex to yourself ,animal.And Vikram is a name of indian ethnicity . Vikram Pandit of Citibank.

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Vikram 05.02.2013 18:07

Tomasz (unregistered) February 05, 2013, 20:05Hmmm - I assume you have the same attitude to Arabs what with the news about Fayan Al-Ghamdi recently - and Russians too considering RT itself has reported a threefold increase in paedophilia in Russia in recent years.Your racist ranting makes you sound really silly - keep it up. See if you can out froth your last post without breaching the posting guidelines. There must be further depravity in that tiny little mind of yours that you'd like to share with the world.PS how come you're so sure that I'm Indian????

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