Fascinating Horror on MSN
Waves hit 39 feet – then the oil rig capsized with 212 men onboard
On March 27, 1980, 212 men were onboard the Alexander L. Kielland oil platform in the North Sea as 39-foot waves battered the ...
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Oil rig off the SoCal coast catches fire; 'no immediate threat' to environment, officials say
An oil platform off the coast of Carpinteria caught fire Monday morning, triggering a response from the U.S. Coast Guard and county firefighting agencies.
Air Force Times on MSN
US Air Force looks to convert offshore oil rigs into rocket recovery platforms
An Air Force plan calls for old oil platforms to become Sea-based Recovery Stations for the U.S. Space Force and private spaceflight companies.
A hundred miles off the coast of Freeport, dive boats congregate around a series of oil platforms where amberjack and angel fish swim between 300-foot-tall pilings covered in coral. Andy Lewis, who ...
BLACK BAY — The anonymous log, found months later in an oil platform’s living quarters, documented a worker’s tasks: He pumped oil, cleaned sludge and repaired the structure. Then, abruptly: “Shutting ...
Three oil rig workers died while another was critically injured when their lifeboat fell into the sea during maintenance work ...
History Snob on MSN
The strange afterlife of abandoned oil rigs
Somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 2,000 offshore oil and gas platforms are still standing, with several hundred more sitting on the seafloor, either deliberately or by accident. That number ...
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