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BBC Scotland produced a 1hr30min documentary about Piper Alpha a few years back. There's some pretty harrowing experiences talked about by the survivors and tho
by teh_klev 9y ago
BBC Scotland produced a 1hr30min documentary about Piper Alpha a few years back. There's some pretty harrowing experiences talked about by the survivors and those who lost family members and friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcDNRSsM24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcDNRSsM24
It's fairly brutal stuff. My mum's friend lost her son in the accident, I don't think there was community throughout Scotland who didn't know of a family that had been affected by this tragedy.
- rwmj 9y agoI can second this. Although I remember the event, I was a bit too young to really understand what had gone on. This documentary was terrifying.
- King-Aaron 9y agoI remember watching a similar doco as a kid, before my Dad went away to help set up the initial systems on the Wandoo A and B platforms in the North West of Western Australia. He'd not been offshore in a rig environment before and the conversation about the Piper Alpha came up. As a kid about to see his Dad off for several weeks, it was a pretty distressing documentary to watch. Edit: Just realised that you linked a different video to the one I recalled