But a jack-up barge has six, protruding high into the air when the ship is in transit.

You don't want a person on a jack-up barge or drilling rig who doesn't know anything about safety."

The man's body was not recovered until Sunday night because of the four-legged jack-up barge's instability.

One leg of the jack-up barge plunged into the seabed causing it to tilt.

Five men were rescued by boat from the jack-up barge, and two were pulled from the water.

Point Hope rescued seven personnel from a capsized jack-up barge on 17 October 1984.

The floating jack-up barge is a four-legged platform.

With drilling moving into ever deeper waters, Jack-up barges could not be used any more and anchoring became less economical.

Which may mean we see more massive jack-up barges patrolling the waters around the UK in years to come.

He'd cruised under water for the better part Of forty minutes to reach the Jack-up barge, running between ten and twenty feet below the surface.

In August, progress was delayed due to the late arrival of a jack-up barge, the Lisa A.

Other methods of position-keeping are the use of an anchor spread and the use of a jack-up barge.

A giant jack-up barge which was the scene of a sea rescue of 38 workers is set to return to the Solway Firth.

He'd leased the jack-up barge from a wildcat drilling operation that had been hitting nothing but dry holes for too long to stay competitively solvent.

South Hook LNG said they have been unable to remove the man's body so far because of the jack-up barge's instability.

We also visited a jack-up barge in Barataria Bay, had about 150, almost 200 fishermen from Lafitte who are out there battling the oil.

Seven men were rescued when the floating jack-up barge collapsed near Milford Haven in Wales on Saturday.

The giant jack-up barges are purpose-built for the expanding industry and one such vessel is the £60m MPIO Resolution.

In September 2007 a group of 40 workers had to be rescued from a jack-up barge being used to install turbines after it started to list in strong winds.

Drilling is expected to occur via a self-elevating platform or jack-up barge (that typically has four legs) placed on the seafloor with the platform above sea level.

Purpose-built at a Chinese shipyard, the £60m jack-up barge MPIO Resolution is an extraordinary piece of engineering in itself.

He completed his preparations only two minutes after Brognola was supposed to have communicated with the Coast Guard concerning the organ harvesting ring on the jack-up barge.

Kaliope, who had been sitting on a corner of his desk, picked up the remote control that also linked the television to the outside security cameras mounted around the jack-up barge.

In September 2006 the jack-up barge Octopus ran aground on an uncharted sea mount within the Orkney Islands (United Kingdom) while being towed by the tug Harold.

He added that "future strategy is based on expanding its fleet of jack-up barges and on embarking on an ambitious regional expansion to meet the future demand in the Middle East Region.