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:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.818922/publication.html">Official Report</a></li>
</ul>
Links of Potential Interest:
<ul>
<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/archives/entry/ocean-ranger-royal-commission-wreck-examined-lawsuits-filed">Royal Commission</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1606939153">Ocean Ranger report blames equipment and training</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">25 years later</a></li>
</ul>
 Support Causality on <a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/johnchidgey" title="Causality on Patreon"> Patreon</a> Episode Gold Producers:
 &#39;r&#39; and Chip Salzenberg. Episode Silver Producers:
 Mitch Biegler, John Whitlow, Kevin Koch, Oliver Steele, Lesley Law Chan, Hafthor, Shane O&#39;Neill and Bill. With thanks to 
 Gregory Hess
 for the topic suggestion.

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