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- 1Oil rig evacuation slide video draws attention online▼Oil rig evacuation. You slide down a giant mesh tube straight into a life raft at sea.
Posts are highlighting the evacuation system used on offshore oil rigs, in which workers escape by sliding down a large mesh evacuation chute directly into an inflatable life raft at sea. The footage is drawing reactions for showing how quickly crews can abandon a rig in an emergency.