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It's anchored to the seafloor. Also surely we have the technology to hold a pipe in high sea, as this is what petrol platforms are doing.

Waves and weather can literally make concrete attached to rocky shores go flying... so one must not underestimate those forces.
platforms are on stilts, no? Quite different from floating. But yea, seems doable.
There are floating platforms as well if the water is too deep for stilts.

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