Waves lashed the Ocean Ranger oil rig knocking out a porthole window and allowing water to submerge the ballast control room, ...

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas ... of methane caused an explosion and fire that sank the rig and claimed 11 lives. Since then, substantial ...

The tragedy of the Ocean Ranger imparted invaluable lessons to us as mariners, educators, and researchers in the maritime and ...

Families of the more than 120 men killed when an oil rig capsized 45 years ago were failed ... block when it collapsed in the Norwegian North Sea during a storm in 1980, killing 123 people ...

Unveiled at the recent Sea Air Space 2024 expo, this project proposes a novel solution to address evolving security challenges in the Pacific: repurposing surplus oil rigs into mobile missile ...

The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.

Gonzaga High School is hosting the annual Ocean Ranger Memorial Service today for those lost in the local oil industry’s ...

Human-made structures act as artificial reefs, luring plankton and, in turn, Earth’s largest fish. That could put whale sharks at risk of ship strikes.

Laura Fleming's father Michel was killed in the 1980 Kielland catastrophe Families of those killed in an oil rig disaster 45 ... offered as to how the rig sank" and the "door of power firmly ...