Fire in the Night. The Piper Alpha Disaster
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- Nombre de pages320
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-0-230-73887-4
- EAN9780230738874
- Date de parution23/11/2010
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurPan
Résumé
A gripping account of the worst offshore oil-rig disaster in history - newly updated for the 30th anniversary. On 6 July 1988, a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the North Sea. Ablaze with 226 men on board, the searing temperatures caused the platform to collapse in just two hours. Only sixty-one would survive by leaping over 100 feet into the water below.
The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel's hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.
Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in vivid detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.
The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel's hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.
Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in vivid detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.
A gripping account of the worst offshore oil-rig disaster in history - newly updated for the 30th anniversary. On 6 July 1988, a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the North Sea. Ablaze with 226 men on board, the searing temperatures caused the platform to collapse in just two hours. Only sixty-one would survive by leaping over 100 feet into the water below.
The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel's hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.
Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in vivid detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.
The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel's hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.
Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in vivid detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.
