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I was working in the oil industry in Canada (onshore not offshore) when the Ocean Ranger sank in a storm taking 84 crew with it. I remember following the reports into that disaster. Such reports may help us not to make the same mistakes again but new mistakes are always possible.
Metz Inlet
How lucky the Survivors on Piper Alpha were that there was a Medical Conference in Edinburgh attended by the Best of Britain's Burn Injury Surgeons that were close enough on hand to spread around the Hospitals and treat them as soon as the helicopters landed.
i remember being shown this in college for electrical safety, shits wild
A memorial sculpture is located in the Rose Garden of Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen.
I've spent alot of my life in the oil and gas industry, never ever just walk away from work without letting a person know verbally what the state of work completion is. One simple conversation could have stopped this from happening…
I am 50 years old. As far as I can tell in the real world, safety and efficiency can never work hand in hand. Every executive will want maximum profit and will hide all the dangers as long as they can.
I was only 8 when this happened, but I remember it. I had family onboard. I am curious to know why we are getting such old videos as new releases? Did the editors and writers escape the basement and so we just get the archives now?
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Pump A??…. or Pompeii?? 🤔…
My late father was an anaesthetist at ARI, also in the RAMC. They flew out to the rig, but had to return as it was effectively destroyed. He looked after some of the survivors.
coming from orkney its something we never forget here, not only because of the flotta link but because the accommodation block was taken here, know people that had to go in to remove the bodies, so sad, rest easy guys
And our right wing government in New Zealand have been hell bent on deep sea oil exploration because, what could go wrong? Also, money! Not that Greenpeace have put a stop to that they've decided deep sea mining is the way to go. Profit first, last and always.
Like the way you call it the other disaster, to me Deepwater Horizon is the other disaster and I only learnt about it from being bought the movie as a dvd. Piper Alpha was all over the news and stayed in it for years afterwards… are sure you grew up in the uk 😂
This most definitely will happen again. Given the rising push back from certain gung ho (right wing) elements against "excessive regulations" (as they call them). It's not an if, it's a definite when.
I remember watching it Live quite clearly.
I work in Aberdeen in the O&G industry….its still a sh*t show today…..
Never forget this, all those men sent to an horrendous death…..
My stepdad left the rig the day before it happened, he lost a few pals that day. Thats a disaster that aberdeen as a city will never forget
"Hello, fellow Internet explorers!"
If we're talking old browsers, I always saw myself as more of a Netscape Navigator.
This happened partly due to Thatcher’s Tory government
True story, my father was supposed to be on Alpha when it went off as a diver, however my older sister was born 2 weeks early so he thankfully wasn’t on it
Simon got dressed in a hurry and accidentally put in his wife's blouse…
"The other oil rig disaster"? Piper Alpha is the only one i could have named.
Props for the sound leveling.
Thank you for listening to the viewers.
This disaster lives rather vividly in my head, along with Chernobyl and Space Shuttle Challenger.
No one in the oil and gas, aviation, nuclear or space industry forgot about it – the basis for safety management systems!
Capitalism.
Wonderful introduction and wonderful technical explanations video…oil fields are contaminating air,soil , and water continuously without feeling of responsibilities toward whole life on the planet. For companies greedy
Dude, slow down! Talk about motormouth. I have to pause so many times to read information like the plan of the rig, and listen to what you're saying on repeat. There is no time constraint, you can make your videos just a couple of minutes longer, no biggie but then we lesser mortals living at normal speed can keep up. Less Crack for breakfast, yes?
This was horrifying at the time. I live in Scotland and at the time a lot of people knew someone who was working "on the rigs" so this really hit home hard. What happened to those poor guys was so sad.
i am studying to be a ships engineer and this is constantly broiught up in our health and saftey classes
Wow! 8 billion dollars in damage? In 1970s money???
piper alpha
Deep Water
Ocean Ranger
all top of the line rigs, all marvels of engineering, all went down in flames due to mistakes
I'm used to listening to the long form casual criminalist videos and at the end of this I was half expecting you to say and this is the story of the piper alpha disaster
If you call me an "Internet Explorer" again I might do something evil /jk
I always wondered how Piper Alpha got its name
This was all over the news when I was a kid. I’ll never forget it. RIP the crew whom lost their lives and 🙏🙏🙏 for the injured. Thanks for the video!
I was 9 at the time and living under the flight path to the airport. The lasting memory I still have is the never ending wave after wave of helicopters going to refuel after they had dropped off at ARI to head back out. Everyone knew something was up.
Found out in the days after that our neighbours son died in Piper.
It's things like this that people ignore when they complain about health & safety.
Or want a bonfire of regulations
Piper alpha could've been saved if prue alpha and phoebe alpha would stopped arguing and helped!
I haven't forgotten Piper Alpha. A friend of mine, left school 2 years ahead of me, died on that platform.
Lived in Aberdeen for nearly 20 years now, Piper Alpha is something that City will always remember, and still causes a lot of people a lot of grief.
I Drive a lorry so being in Aberdeen a lot is oil industry related, and there is a huge amount if industry that go into testing and checking so much equipment that goes out to the rigs, can sometimes feel ridiculous that you can you can go into one place one day, it gets something done to it, then off to another place then back to the first one, then off somewhere else where it gets packed to go away again easy to forget after a while why, until you remember what happened not far off the coast
I feel like still wakes the deep came from this
…………..the front fell off
I thought the deepwater horizon disaster was caused by regulations. I thought the rig was placed in deeper water than necessary by rule.
I remember piper alpha its what comes to mind when you say oil rig disaster, just like Chernobyl comes to mind when I think of nuclear disaster, and I watch the TV shows about both.
From Aberdeen with relatives and family friends involved in the Piper disaster this is the one we remember/talk about. I only live a few miles from Piper Alpha memorial gardens 😢😢