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  • Thank You USN for blowing the mexican mafia's funds to shit squat and seeing the mexican maphia cartel jump yeebeez off to broke sucking up to our government now. See, if mexican illegals want to talk shit and then know we had them before they thought the coast was clear, they would of never lost their illegal mafia ran peal cultifier fields along Texas coast and mexico's coast. WHAT????? BLACK LOBSTERS????

  • Jesus..i'd never seen footage before..

    My best mate when i was a kid, Steven Ward, his father Brian died on Piper Alpha.

    Condolences to all the families who lost someone on the rig.

  • My heart goes out too the families... Being a fellow oilfield righand it just boggles my mind when people trash the oilfield... Hey dickcheese nxt time u jump in your car too take your fatass too mickey ds maybe u outta think about the luxories u have in your life and what hard working people all over the world have too do so you can have them...

  • SMGJohn, This is 1988. It was not a time when everybody knew what was coming. Nobody would have questioned Henry Ford on the impact of the oil industry. And yet here we stand.

  • Lest we forget.

  • My dad was killed on the Piper - I miss him so much . I saw your vid its like seeing the news that day - being taken to Aberdeen ( 500 miles away with 2 very new babies) and trying to see a survivior with a nose like my Dad's - it didn't happen

  • @fay1wray Hi, I worked on the incident for an art installation in 2009. I mentioned the families of the victims in the text. I went through the documentary and through several web pages with testimonies. It took me 2 years of research. Maybe you were in one. I believe the accident really kept many people's lives from danger. I believe all persons who perished are somewhat the heroes of many workers till today. I know there is no comfort, but people are working to make this known, recognized.

  • @fay1wray Im sure your dad was a hero RIP what ever his name was im sorry for your loss xx

  • Just found out recently that the guy that my mum new his body hadn't been recovered and I found this out cause I visited the memorial and it was extremely strange cause there was gardens next to the memorial where my parents used to take every weekend when I was little I actually remember seeing the memorial when I was little and always got a strange scary and sort of unnerving feel of it but I hadn't know what was for till now btw the guy that my mum new his name was Stuart Douglas Sutherland

  • i watched the full documetare on how this started an what was the causes and how they turned of the emegency diesel pumps of for divers, in my welding lesson today to show how fire can spread so quickly it was very benificial but , rip to all the 167 men who perished

  • these poor men were only trying to make a living...providing for their families and contorary to popular belief not every job offshore makes mega bucks!!! some people are so ignorant!!! and btw working for an oil industry isn't supporting actions against humanity!!!! at least these guys are working and not sitting on benefits bleeding the country dry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I really ain't got any love for these guys who died, The OIL industry is the most evil shit ever! Causing deaths of millions each year. Rich ass holes and fuckers who wants more and more cash starts war in countries to steal their OIL. Working for an OIL industry is like supporting their actions against Humanity which is seen as breaking every single human right rules

  • @smithsfan83 very well said sir

  • to the idiot who wrote "that looks awesome". Do you think it is awesome for the families of the 167 men who were lost or do you think it was awesome for everyone on board Piper Alpha that night. Bet you wouldn't have said it was "awesome" as you put it if you were on board that night wondering if you were going to see your family again. Think before you write idiotic insulting comments down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Another reason why I want us to be more dependent on solar wind and geothermal.

  • @calenga....they weren't gona freeze to death foo..help was already there....they were either gona suffocate or burn n jumpin off would of been the best choice

  • i know people died but that looks awesome

  • @joemoin You insensitive prick. how can you say its awesome. people died , i just read a comment from some 1 whos dad dies on there . bet if your dad was on there you wouldent think it was so awesome then would you . too loose a loved one in such a horriffic way. and then to have a little twat like you . i hope that person didnt read your comment cus it might just bring them to tears. think b4 you write a comment DICKHEAD

  • @dnbdjanarchy well said mate

    

  • I've a personal connection. I believe that for all the 167 men who died that night, it was a case of stay and burn to death or drop off of the rig and freeze to death...

    May God bless all these men which ever way they went...

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  • cool.

    

  • can anyone tell me who shot this video and if so reply to - pberriff@aol.com

    I am the film maker who shot the TV series called Rescue and I would like to contact the person who filmed the above footage

  • at 0.36 - that when the gas riser to claymore ruptured, After that point - nobody still inside the accommodation was going to survive.

  • Thinking of all who lost their lives on this the 23rd anniversary of the disaster.

  • Piper Alpha changed the way many of us do things. Safety became a huge concern after this. I remember it clearly.

  • @crudeoilsystems Fortunately, as safety became a huge concern, nothing bad ever happened on an oil rig ever again.

    The end.

  • @ManFromSaturn what the source to make this accident???

  • @crudeoilsystems what happen to Pipper Alpha????

  • The Ninian Central Platform cracked during construction. Howard Doris ordered a cover-up. Instead of being de-commissioned promptly the Ninian Central is being pushed to the limit. Watch this space.

  • just found out my mums ex boyfriend from high school died in this :/

  • 0:36 is when the main gas line ruptures

  • antics of Steven Seagal=)

  • 0:36 scary sound

  • my dad was one of the 62 survivors who had jump to from the drilling deck about 150 to 200 feet in to the northsea that was on fire and piked up by rescue vessel and taken to Tharos that was driven back by sever heat that started to melt steel r.i.p to all who died that night

  • ...And all the other 166 people two of course.

  • Thanks for posting these, I only think what could have been had one of my family survived this disaster.

  •  :O /|\

    ULLAH!

  • where was this at? i think it was the north sea.

  • Hi. Where did you acquire this footage? Is this copyrighted? This is the first time I am aware about this incident.

  • @ygarciaraul Yes it is copyrighted by a friend of mine, he gave me permission to upload it.

  • @driller189 Too bad you just gave all the rights to Youtube, SUCKER

  • @ygarciaraul The first time you have heard about Piper Alpha? Where 167 Brits lost their lives due to cost-cutting measures by an American oil company? Kinda puts a perspective on the gulf spill don't it? Granted it wasn't as bad as the Bhopal incident where 2,000+ Indians were killed by the negligence of another American oil company. But it's the season to bash the Brits about the BP spill.

  • @FatBlackFrancis

    Erm all in charge of the BP spill were yanks lol

  • Hi. Where did you acquire this footage? This is the first time I am aware about this incident.

  • Wow, some seriuos hate on this thread, My Dad was on the Tharos.... I worked on the Seaway Condor then on the DB102. Anyone that was there will know what that means.

  • 911 theorists dont believe 1400c kerosene cant melt steel. well here is 1200c melting steel.

  • Scary to think they can't even jump in the sea for evacuation as the water below gets that gaseous everything sinks :/

  • was that in the north sea

  • Nothing will ever bring back those who died.

  • dont be so silly everyone..its just a little bit of fire...get back to work

  • @buttsecksist get fuyced cn,nt face

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  • The size of that explosion is truly frightening, when you consider that the flare stack alone was often to hot to get close to. rip boys .

  • OH&S video the other rigs should have shut down they was fueling it I watch a 20 minute vid a week ago

  • sorry for any upset, i work on the bravo. apoligies.

  • Those guys had no chance to survive...sad

  • @robsonpaludo :'(

  • 167 people like you and me.... their lives tragically cut short. my heart is broken.

  • if i member so the fire suppressant systems was set to Disable, an diver Had serviced an pipe close to the water intake pipe so it was turned off, but it was never set back to Auto

    how the fire started was and there was an Blocked off bypass valve that was not logged as Not in service so when they used it in the control room it blow the cap off fire started, suppressant system did not come on (some one did try to go to the system suppressant but he was never seen again {fumes most likely})

  • Noone was asleep, there were sirens going off all over the rig as soon as the smaller blast started the fire. It was theorized that the vast majority of the 167 men who died were below deck, trapped by the fire above them, they would have made their way to the mess hall/canteen which was the strongest fireproofed module. When the main pipeline melted (which was still receiving gas from 6 satellite rigs) the blast obliterated everything, the men would likely have died in an instant.

  • TEARS.

  • drill baby drill

  • my dad rescued some of the survivers on this platform

  • i work on the piper alpha & NEVER a day goes past when i look out the window at the bouy to mark the spot where the alpha was situated. my heart goes out to all the family + friands who lost there loved ones.

    Who ever u are "supermegafart", get a fukkin grip of yourself u fukkin little knob end!

    id so like to dance on your fukkin head u wanker...............aaaahhhhh­hhhhhhhhhh!!

  • @NorthSeaKitty86 I remember when Piper Alpha went down, did they rebuild it or replace it with another Piper Alpha? My dad took me out to some of the rigs in the gulf of Mexico, nowhere near as violent as the North Sea. Dangerously impressive when I was 17. Wanted to work the rigs so bad I could taste it!

  • @SuperMegaFart u r a cunt

  • @SuperMegaFart ur an asshole

    

  • @SuperMegaFart just looked at your channel and saw your comments... you're an absolute moron - comments about you raping children. i'd swap 1,000,000,000 of people like you for any 1 of the people who died that day. u're fkkin worthless

  • @SuperMegaFart You need hunting down and dealt with ya cunt!!!!

  • @SuperMegaFart well clearly you were neglected as a child and all of your sick comments are a just a desperate cry for attention. Its sad really.

  • @SuperMegaFart Kind of sad that your so desperate for attention that you would say that kind of stuff about what happened on the Piper Alpha. I guess you got some more growing up to do faggot!!!!!!

  • The Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill is an environmental end of day’s bomb if the oil contains substantial iron and the surface water shows an increase in acidity. The acidification of the oceans indicates that the water is capturing atmospheric carbon and produces some carbonic acid. The air interface over a strong carbon sink would even slightly burn the eyes . A elite geologist John Martin stated in a speech “give me a tanker of Iron and I will cause the next ice age”.

  • i just hope the manager of the claymore platform who wouldnt turn the gaspipe off to the alpha when asked to do so many times has had many a sleepless night..he was thinking of his wage packet and the company profits before the lives of the men who died..he has the blood of scores of men on his hands..

  • ...............R.I.P

  • Al Gore owns Occidental Oil Corp.

  • fuck that the latest BP refinery deepwater horizon is now the worst

  • @lightningstrike555 Show some respect.

  • @lightningstrike555 How can you say a human cost of 11 lives is worse than 167? Everyone is being compensated in full for lack of earnings related to the gulf incident. Take your head out of your arse and step out of your American bubble you prick.

  • @ralliart2000 it's because americans are brought up to think that only american lives matter, the rest of the world is nothing to them

  • @godkingRoss not all americans are selfish douchebags. 99% of the ones who represent us, yes, are stuck up their own asses. just sayin'.

  • @LAHINZEE yeah, sorry. i obviously made that comment out of anger.

  • @ralliart2000 FUCK U stop acting like ur intelligent ok it was i and chuck norris that farted when you heard that explosion in this video

  • @lightningstrike555

    Don't be such a fucking idiot, just because they are American, doesn't make their lives 10 times more important than British Lives.

    RIP to all lost in both accidents.

  • @lightningstrike555 Deepwater Horizon is nothing compared to Piper Alpha..

  • @lightningstrike555 environmentally it is worse.. but in terms of lifes lost.. obviously not.. but the again you were too fuhkin stupid to read the description.

  • @lightningstrike555 get fukked and go comment elsewhere

  • R.I.P :(

  • not anymore. The Gulf of Mexico spill is the worst.

  • @R3MUS2007 In terms of oil spilled, yes, but not in terms of human life. Get a fucking grip.

  • @R3MUS2007 i don't think this was posted to start an argument over who has the worst offshore disaster... grow up

  • @godkingRoss stop trolling the comments. If you have something to add, post it. I wasnt starting an argument. I was simply stating a fact. >.>

  • @R3MUS2007 a fact? explain how the loss of 11 lives is worse then 167? how is that a fact?

  • @godkingRoss what is your problem? The loss of lives isnt what I was pointing out. An oil spill refers to OIL not PEOPLE. Jeeze pay attention to the topic. This oil spill is the worst in the history of the US, go read up on the numbers. Its worse than the Exxon Valdez spill.

  • @R3MUS2007 Yes, but the video wasn't about the oil spill - there wasn't a major oil spill ascosiated with Piper Alpha. However, it is still the "worst offshore disaster", (not counting shipping disasters,) and in terms of human lives lost (and that's the point of this video,) Deepwater Horizon is far less severe (11 dead) than this was.

  • after this this tradegy the people most responsible were ferried to countrys where britain could not bring them back here to face any kind of trial or questions. the true price of oil is shocking

  • Segano1, if it helps any, I donated blood and everytime I am back to Aberdeen I lay some flowers at the memorial and look at all 167 names. Good men died because of the greed of a corporation

  • i think these ocean rigs should be outlawed. there risk is sickening.

  • Nice sound effects of wood popping LOL  funny

  • Watch the BP OIL SPILL Live!

    WeatherSnap(dot)org

    Click on "BP OIL SPILL! Live Feed!"

    The people deserve to Know

  • @VerisonMember just weathersnap(dot)org?

  • @browneyedgurllove

    You can if you want. then click on oils spill

  • sorry to seano 1,your dad must of be a brave,brave man..rip.

  • i was ops manager for Atlas, we had just got all our crew off. Typically we had an average of 5 a day onboard ! I was next to go off and log p65 ..God bless the lost souls!

  • aloy of polutuion

  • When will we learn? All the obtainable oil on the planet is going to run out in a few decades anyway. Then we'll be forced to use alt. energy sources. I say, use them now. Begin the switch NOW. Solar, wind, geothermal, wave energy, and stuff yet to be discovered. As we're making the switch, continue using oil you can drill from land and increase fuel efficiency stds to make that last longer. No more DEEP WATER drilling.

  • that is why i dont want to do my dad's job

  • @Turrican101 Thanks.

  • I remember this like yesterday, and I always will.

  • Offshore welders earn $2,775.00 per 84 hr. work week, send to me your email address. If you would like to go offshore doing some other kind of work, send to me your email address.

  • how many people survived?

  • My God, May the all rest in peace... @segano1... a hug from my heart

  • agent smith on the case

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  • @AryanKnight if you explained that clearer, alot more people would listen. good point.

  • Did anyone survive?

  • If i was on that thing and it started on fire i would go into the sea not wait for it to incinerate me.

  • @xsithos

    It's a hell of a long way to the deck to the water...

  • @numeristacom looks like its about 50ft. Easier to live through that than to live though fire.

  • @xsithos Very true...

  • @xsithos A good number of the workers who were on-duty at the time actually did leap into the sea. It was mostly the ones who were off-duty (and presumably asleep) who were incinerated without having tried to escape the platform.

  • roughnecks get free beer in heaven!

  • what about the titanic? that was an offshore disaster! YEAH!! RIGHT BACK IN YOUR FACE!!

  • it's always a worrying thing being offshore, i work on Drilling Rigs for Ensco & these things are always in the back of my mind. Who's to know it wont happen again...... R.I.P Fellow workers that perished :-(

  • i agree, things like this are always in the back of my mind too, i also work on a Rig for the same Company this incident happened. ( Occidental Petroleum ), however since this accident, safety measures have been lifted highly, but as u said who's 2 know it wont happen again..

  • Thanks for the information

  • it's all good this highly upgraded health & safety, if it saves one life then i'm all for it. If i have to get a permit to get a permit i'll do it :-)

  • humanity, respect, and selflessness costs nothing, but its something the people on piper alpha had, its hurtful insensitive and disrespectful to wright some of the disgusting comments left here, the majority of us left kind words and understand the worry that us loved ones have left here back home when our husbands, dads, lovers, brothers, sisters, mums go offshore. some forget its one of the most dangorus jobs in the world.

    most of us do not forget. R.I.P BRAVE SOULS.

  • What company made this platform? What caused the gas leak? Don't know much about oil drilling.

  • Accidents happen, that's all I know.

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  • @vinman24t wikepedia Piper Alpha for oil rig info...the cullen enquiry made 103 safety reccomendations after the disaster and the HSE took ownership for safety at sea.

  • oh it would be horrible to be stuck in that....

    o_0

  • im never working on an offshore rig fuck that.

  • Lack of admin control, engineering control, adequate health and safety precautions, lack of adequate rig design. Lack of emergency procedures, poor management and staff work ethics and poor communication contributed to this disaster. Cant believe people weren't locked up for this!

  • @ronan1986 Money ran everything back then. It still does, but at least its getting better and huge changes were made in reguards to saftey due to this incident.

  • @ronan1986

    You´re quite right in your points there. This was a disaster that could have been avoided, if the right precautions and procedures had been taken in use.

    Working frequently on offshore rigs, I can say that safety today has a much higher level than back in the 80´s.

    But some sectors are, unfortunatly , still lacking on safety controls. Deep Water Horizon is a clear example of this..

  • @ronan1986 Exactly! I mean, how can anyone be negligent enough not to install blastproof panels in an area likely to be graced by gas explosions?!

  • let me guess the seals were made my Mortin Thyacal

  • that sucks :(

  • RIP

  • i think most drowned

    cant believe they were not prepared for this

    rip

  • and the other rig just kept pumping to it fuling the fire?

  • :-o R.I.P.

  • R.I.P.

  • I believe all the people that think you're not a man if you don't work with your hands need to see this. There are a lot of youth that think the oil field is the way to go because you make more than some people that go to college. They even have almost a prejudice against people with a higher education. Events like this proves it's not without cost. And events like this happen very often.

  • IncludeGod: Events like this happen often? Um, no, you are wrong. You are much, much more likely to get killed by a drunk driver than to die this way, although tragic nonetheless. And there is nothing wrong with doing some hard work.

  • @IncludeGod - IncludeGod. Please stop using your car because the gas your using comes from there. Also, stop using running water, the water use use comes from pumps fueled by gas from there. While your at it, stop using electricity because, chances are, the electricity needed to power your house comes from there. Good luck without being able to make retarded comments on youtube. It will be nice to have you gone.

  • Well apparently you couldn't comprehend my "retarded comment". Don't worry, I didn't expect people like you to understand it. If you would have read my comment correctly, you would have known that I wasn't putting down the oil industry, but stating that pursuing a career in this field can have major cost. My grandfather worked a rig, made good money too, but how much of that money did he have to spend fighting lung cancer twice because he swallowed a flame when the rig caught fire.

  • RIP

  • rip

  • i was 10 days from going to PA to log the next well.P56 ..Lucky timing eh ?

  • rip to everyone that was on there

  • OssyOsbourne. show some respect, degenerate wretch

  • My father was one of the 167 who died that day,I was 3 years old at the time,but I  remember him vaguely but fondly.

  • Ozzy0sbourne........you are a cunt!

  • haha Ozzy0sbourne's acc has been suspended. the thing is you can't get rid of every moron on youtube though....

  • honestly, if I ever find out who you are, I'll take pleasure in ripping out your lungs