Monday, March 10, 2025

Britbong dolphin (600, 300)

I dreamed that Byron showed me something he had drawn: a simple pencil sketch of a dolphin with a caption under it reading "britbong dolphin," and under that a pair of coordinates something like "(600, 300)."

Since britbong is 4chan slang for a British person, I said, "So those coordinates are in the UK somewhere?"

"In the North Sea," said Byron, "in an area frequented by British ships."


Making a drawing with associated "coordinates" is something I would associate with remote viewing.

Obviously, numbers like 600 and 300 can't be latitude and longitude, but adding decimal points solves the problem:


It's much closer to Norway than to Bongland, but it's in the North Sea and might for all I know be an area frequented by British ships. Dolphins here would be white-beaked, or possibly bottlenoses at the extreme northern end of their range.


Note added: In a comment, WanderingGondola is reminded of a song called "Byford Dolphin," named after an oil drilling rig that had a notable accident in Frigg gas field -- at 59°52′48.48″N 2°3′59.40″E, very close to the coordinates shown above. Note how visually similar Byford and Byron are. The person in my dream didn't really look like Lord Byron, but I just knew that that was his name.


Frigg gas field is located right on the boundary between British and Norwegian waters, and the Byford Dolphin was operated by Dolphin Drilling, a British company based in Aberdeen, Scotland. There are three rigs currently operated by Dolphin Drilling: Blackford Dolphin, Borgland Dolphin, and Paul B. Loyd Jr. WG's comment began "'Dolphin', combined with those B-words . . ." -- apparently the company operated more than one "B-word Dolphin" rig. The one that stands out the most is of course the Borgland Dolphin. In my original post, influenced by the use of Britbong in the dream, I referred to Britain as Bongland -- differing from Borgland by a single stroke of a single letter.

I knew nothing about any of that, and I would have remained ignorant had WG not happened to be familiar with a "very indie" musical artist (too obscure to be on Wikipedia) called Conelrad. What are the odds?

I can't say I see what oil rigs in the North Sea have to do with anything, but we'll see if the sync fairies take it anywhere interesting.

3 comments:

WanderingGondola said...

"Dolphin", combined with those B-words, reminded me of "Byford Dolphin", a song by a guy known as Conelrad (very indie! IIRC I discovered him two decades ago, through a small forum with some interest in ambient music). Interestingly, a search for the song's title brings up an old drilling rig that operated in the North Sea, and its most notable accident occurred in an oil field quite close to your coordinates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_LaLs8WiSk
https://conelrad.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg_gas_field

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Fantastic work, WG. See my update to the post.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

The Britbong name comes from a greentext story about Big Ben, which is a bell.

Byford Dolphin is known for a diving bell accident.

Britbong dolphin (600, 300)

I dreamed that Byron showed me something he had drawn: a simple pencil sketch of a dolphin with a caption under it reading "britbong do...