The largest semi-submersible Offshore Drilling Rig of its day, sank in a storm in 1982 whilst two smaller nearby rigs survived with minimal damage. We dive into how not closing a portlight cover, triggered a series of events that cost 84 people their lives. With John Chidgey. This show is <a href="/blog/podcasting-2-0">Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced</a>
Report into the Incidents:
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<li><a href="http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.818922/publication.html">Official Report</a></li>
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Links of Potential Interest:
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Ranger">Ocean Ranger</a></li>
<li><a href="https://onepetro.org/SUTSSS/proceedings-abstract/AUTOE9/All-AUTOE9/SUT-AUTOE-v9-165/3072">Hydrodynamic Model Studies of the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/economy/ocean-ranger.php">The Loss of the Ocean Ranger</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1606936073">Royal Commission Called (Video)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1606939153">Ocean Ranger report blames equipment and training (Video)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://useakayak.org/references/hypothermia_table.html">Hypothermia Table</a></li>
<li><a href="https://petrowiki.spe.org/History_of_offshore_drilling_units#Technological_development_of_the_MODU">History of offshore drilling units</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms#bulwark">Glossary of nautical terms</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roustabout">Roustabout</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davit">Davit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070217094857/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/02/15/ranger-25.html" title="Original Link: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/02/15/ranger-25.html">25 years later (Archive.org)</a></li>
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40: Ocean Ranger

John Chidgey

Ocean Ranger

Causality

Chain of Events. Cause and Effect. We analyse what went right and what went wrong as we discover that many outcomes can be predicted, planned for and even prevented.


40: Ocean Ranger

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