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Fire in the Night

- The Piper Alpha Disaster
Af: Stephen McGinty Engelsk Paperback

Fire in the Night

- The Piper Alpha Disaster
Af: Stephen McGinty Engelsk Paperback
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The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel’s hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men’s heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.

On 6 July 1988 a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the North Sea. Ablaze with 226 men on board, the searing temperatures caused the platform to collapse in just two hours. Only sixty-one would survive by leaping over 100 feet into the water below.

Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in gripping detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving and vivid tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.

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The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel’s hull blistered and burnt. In the water surrounding the inferno, men’s heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat.

On 6 July 1988 a series of explosions ripped through the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the North Sea. Ablaze with 226 men on board, the searing temperatures caused the platform to collapse in just two hours. Only sixty-one would survive by leaping over 100 feet into the water below.

Newly updated for the thirtieth year since the tragedy, Fire in the Night by journalist Stephen McGinty tells in gripping detail the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official inquiry into the disaster, this is the moving and vivid tale of what remains the worst offshore oil-rig disaster to date.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781509868223
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1509868224
Kategori: Nordsøen
Udg. Dato: 28 jun 2018
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 132mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 28 jun 2018
Forfatter(e): Stephen McGinty
Forfatter(e) Stephen McGinty


Kategori Nordsøen


ISBN-13 9781509868223


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 23mm


Bredde 196mm


Højde 132mm


Udg. Dato 28 jun 2018


Oplagsdato 28 jun 2018


Forlag Pan Macmillan

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