Oil Rig Worker in the Middle of the Ocean Goes Viral for Feeding Ravenous Fish During the Day and Flinging Fruit Into the Nighttime Abyss

Working on an oil rig is not an easy job. The conditions are treacherous and it requires you to be out at sea for months at a time. And when you're not working, there's not much else to do. You can stare at the ocean and soak up a one of a kind view. Or at night stare into pitch darkness, but you're in the middle of the ocean, so if you stare into the abyss, it'll stare back. 

One TikToker has found a way to pass the time and that's to fling food into the watery grave below. The roughneck's videos of this have been going insanely viral. Why? Because when he does it during the day, a ravenous school of fish and/or shark go insane and frenzy over the food—it's definitely a site to be seen. Yet, during the nighttime, when he hucks whatever food into the dark ocean it is eaten up by the darkness. 

Daytime: Fish Frenzy Over Bread

Nighttime: Entire Orange Eaten by the Abyss

The idea of the viral videos is kinda of silly. We've all seen someone feeding the fish at the park. Also, you don't really need to pitch fruit into the night sky to see how dark it is. However, there is something unnerving about these videos—amplifying anyone's Thalassophobia aka fear of the ocean. 

TikToker Mocking the Orange Toss:

Being in the middle of the ocean is a terrifying idea as much as it is a peaceful one. Seamen know that being out at sea with no land in site can bring a feeling for peace and tranquility, but also danger and anxiety. With this TikTokers videos (which he posts on two accounts, @oilywhitehate and @hectorzert) you can truly see the beauties and the fears of the great big blue. 

The nighttime videos show the true remoteness and loneliness being at sea can bring. And the daytime videos show the beauties of the endless horizon and meeting oceans. However, the famished fish below make you think “what would happen if a person fell off that rig?” If you, by some miracle, survived a fall from that high up into the ocean, would the fish instantly see you as food? Many commenters think so. 

Atlantic & Pacific Meeting

Pitch Black at Night

For this TikTokers, viewers come for the views, but stay for the food being flung, fish eating frenzies, and get a glimpse of that spooky ocean nighttime abyss.