Piper Alpha

[BillShankly]

Yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of Piper Alpha.

 

R.I.P to all the fallen.

[Ke1t]

My old dear was nursing in Aberdeen at the time. Not a happy period for people in the city.

 

She did tell me a somewhat amusing story of Thatcher's visit to the survivors at the hospital, though.

[Big Man]

I'm researching the Piper Alpha disaster and I want to acquire a copy of the Cullen Report.

 

Obviously it was never published online, and I can find a copy anywhere. I don't suppose anyone has a copy (a safety dick who works offshore perhaps?) or could point me in the right direction of one?

 

Cheers,

[Old Wing Stand]

I'm researching the Piper Alpha disaster and I want to acquire a copy of the Cullen Report.

 

Obviously it was never published online, and I can find a copy anywhere. I don't suppose anyone has a copy (a safety dick who works offshore perhaps?) or could point me in the right direction of one?

 

Cheers,

Maybe some of the bigger libraries have a copy or could get one for you

[The Boofon]

I'm researching the Piper Alpha disaster and I want to acquire a copy of the Cullen Report.

 

Obviously it was never published online, and I can find a copy anywhere. I don't suppose anyone has a copy (a safety dick who works offshore perhaps?) or could point me in the right direction of one?

 

Cheers,

 

 

I'll have a look tomorrow although being as I'm not a dick and I don't work offshore I only tick one of your three requisites.

[Jones]

Visit Paul and Williamsons, Union Plaza.

[Big Man]

Maybe some of the bigger libraries have a copy or could get one for you

 

Thanks. Yeah, I'll give that a bash if any online leads don't come to fruition.

 

I'll have a look tomorrow although being as I'm not a dick and I don't work offshore I only tick one of your three requisites.

 

 

I didn't mean it like that.

 

Thanks Boof, I would appreciate it.

[The Boofon]

Thanks. Yeah, I'll give that a bash if any online leads don't come to fruition.

 

 

 

 

I didn't mean it like that.

 

Thanks Boof, I would appreciate it.

 

I know you didn't.

 

I've emailed a guy I used to work with a few minutes ago.

 

He's an oracle when it comes to stuff like this so he's likely got an emailable version.

 

If not our system in the office will pretty definitely have one but I'm back at base at the moment and cannot access anything.

[tutankamun]

I'm researching the Piper Alpha disaster and I want to acquire a copy of the Cullen Report.

 

Obviously it was never published online, and I can find a copy anywhere. I don't suppose anyone has a copy (a safety dick who works offshore perhaps?) or could point me in the right direction of one?

 

Cheers,

 

 

[J4MRU]

A guy at work recommended I read Fire in the Night.

 

Anyone read it?

[tommo1903]

My old dear was nursing in Aberdeen at the time. Not a happy period for people in the city.

 

She did tell me a somewhat amusing story of Thatcher's visit to the survivors at the hospital, though.

 

Tell it then min.

 

I love an anti Thatcher story.

[a don in oz]

Tell it then min.

 

I love an anti Thatcher story.

Is the old witch dead yet?

 

 

 

[daytripping]

Is the old witch dead yet?

 

Take that kind of crap to Mad please, many of us here have a lot of time for Maggie, by god we could do with her now! the greatest leader since Churchill.

[Bluto10]

Take that kind of crap to Mad please, many of us here have a lot of time for Maggie, by god we could do with her now! the greatest leader since Churchill.

 

she wouldnt have put up with the shite we see these days in the U.K.

 

balls of steel she had.

[tommo1903]

I hate politics.

 

I do enjoy hate though.

[The Boofon]

Thanks. Yeah, I'll give that a bash if any online leads don't come to fruition.

 

 

 

 

I didn't mean it like that.

 

Thanks Boof, I would appreciate it.

 

No joy yet Big Man. It's not available electronically at work.

[GK55]

A guy at work recommended I read Fire in the Night.

 

Anyone read it?

 

Yes, excellent book.

[a don in oz]

Take that kind of crap to Mad please, many of us here have a lot of time for Maggie, by god we could do with her now! the greatest leader since Churchill.

That's coz you're wrong in the head. Many of you.

 

 

 

[Bluto10]

That's coz you're wrong in the head. Many of you.

 

youre the one living in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the globe.

 

[daytripping]

I've just ordered the book, will be some light reading for my trip to Auschwitz in 5 weeks time.

[daytripping]

youre the one living in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the globe.

 

 

He also looks like a serial killer or rapist.

[Bluto10]

He also looks like a serial killer or rapist.

 

looks like he is knocking on out.

serioulsy creepy.

 

thank god he cropped his avatar from the chest up.

[Big Man]

No joy yet Big Man. It's not available electronically at work.

 

No worries Boof. Thanks for trying though mate.

 

[The Boofon]

No worries Boof. Thanks for trying though mate.

 

 

 

Got the case study sent through by that work buddy Big Man. Drop me a PM with your email address and I'll send it on.

 

He's also searching for the full report.

[Robbie Winters]

25 years ago today

 

God rest those souls who never made it back

[granite sheep]

I was 11. Just about everyone in aberdeen at the time knew a guy involved in that. RIP the 167 that never made it home.

[Tommy]

I knew two lads who died and one who survived.

My mum was on the phone to the wife of one when

she had to go coz there was someone at the door.

That was when she was told about the ongoing

disaster involving her husband.

A horrible time for all the families and respect for

all offshore workers coz I'd never fancied that working life.

[The Hulk]

I watched Fire in the Night last night on BBC2. Really a very well-made film, sensitively done, hitting home what these poor guys went through. I'd strongly recommend catching up on iPlayer, especially to young lads working offshore too young to remember the impact this had 25 years ago.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p019bt95/Piper_Alpha_Fire_in_the_Night/

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Yup second that about last night's documentary. The guy describing being in the serioulsy cold north sea and feeling like he was under a grill was scary as. And I've always wondered what would happen if you jumped off a helideck. Incredible that the two guys were so worried about the jump (when faced with no alternative) that the doc reckoned they actually received their pretty serious burns on the way down to the water and they never even noticed.

 

Always remember one of the orderlies at ARI saying the worst thing was the silence. There should have been a fleet of air traffic coming in and there was just, well, nothing.

[The Hulk]

The boy Mike Jennings who took a long time to jump and was eventually pushed was apparently reunited with the man who pushed him. Roy Thompson from Keith thought he had killed the man he pushed and it was only when he read the book Fire in the Night that he realised the man was still alive, and they were reunited recently. Great story.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357290/Piper-Alpha-I-thought-I-pushed-edge-I-thought-I-killed-Survivor-oil-rig-disaster-relives-fear-panic-25-years-later.html