Piper Alpha

Series following the Sea King Search and Rescue Flight based at RAF Lossiemouth. For a whole year a television crew filmed the emergency events this RAF Rescue crew were called to including the North Sea and Scottish mountains during perilous conditions. This episode features the role of the Sea King Search and Rescue Flight during the Piper Alpha disaster.

Category:

• Action & Adventure
• Documentary

Directed by:

• Paul Berriff

Tags:

• Rescue
• Sea King helicopter
• Search and Rescue
• RAF
• RAF Lossiemouth
• North Sea
• Scottish mountains
• Piper Alpha
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• Player
• Scottish Television
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[kerrdavidson95]

Easily the best rescue program ever. You can keep your Seaside Rescue and Highland Rescue. Do this again before the Sea King vanishes.

[arklowscum]

i wish i could watch this but it wont load properly. my father was 2nd engineer and medic on the silver pit at the time. it was a sad day for the north sea. the entire industery of the sea only acts and makes changes after an incedent its a shame it took somthing like this to improve the saftey and standards of the oil industry

[clifselina]

I was aboard the USS Hayler, an American navy Destroyer that participated in the rescue efforts. This brought back many memories.

[fabioramsay]

I was only 10 years old at the time but still remember it so clearly through the news coverage and I took a lot of interest in how it happened because I was touched by the sheer scale of the disaster.

[gordslater]

@TheKennyj47: the music at the end, from distant memory is called "Requiem" A fitting tribute to the those who died and the the survivors that carry it with them. It's on the soundtrack album of incidental music commisioned for the series. I think the album was simply called "Rescue" and was at least in part done by Rod Argent, of 70's rock music fame. - I just googled - Robert Hughes and Rod Argent "Rescue: the theme music from". Moving stuff, only a few quid 2nd hand.

[segano1]

God bless all 167, I remember seeing the end of this.

[TheKennyj47]

sad event cuased by cost cutting and cutting corners on safety.does anyone know the name the haunting tune at the end