In July 1988, the North Sea oil platform ignited. As it melted around him, Joe Meanen knew there was only one possible, but highly perilous, way out for him Joe Meanen estimates it took him about six ...
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A 84-Foot Wave Hit An Oil Platform - Then Scientists Finally Admitted Sailors Were Right
For centuries, sailors warned about rogue waves that appeared from nowhere and vanished just as fast. Scientists dismissed ...
A new box-set documentary series set for BBC Two, BBC Scotland and iPlayer will examine the 1988 Piper Alpha oil platform disaster off the Scottish coast that left 167 people dead and remains the ...
I have been so wrong. The undying spill in the Gulf of Mexico has a long way to go before it’s even close to the worst environmental disaster in human history. [M]ore oil is spilled from the [Niger] ...
An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...
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