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...nominee?" I asked. "Yes," answered Kennedy. "Can you tell me?" I asked. "I will if you promise not to publish it," J.F.K. replied. "Senator, don't do that to me," I implored. "We've got two days before the magazine is printed, and I'm sure the name will leak. I don't want to be bound. So don't tell me." Kennedy gave a wry smile, said...
...Wednesday evening, a piercing sound that one survivor described as "screaming like a banshee" -- presumed to be a pressurized natural-gas leak -- screeched through the 650-ft.-high structure, whose four massive metal feet were anchored in the sea bottom 475 ft. below the surface. Seconds later an explosion ripped the rig in two, enveloping it in a ball of flame and smoke. Miraculously, 63 crew members survived, some with severe burns, the majority with only minor injuries. But 166 died, including two rescuers. It was the worst disaster in the 25-year history of North Sea oil exploration...
...been in operation since 1976 and was one of the oldest of the 123 fixed platforms in the British exploration area of the North Sea. Some experts cited equipment failure or metal fatigue as possible causes of the disaster. One widely held view was that there had been a leak in the natural-gas compression apparatus and that ignition had occurred through some kind of mechanical failure...
Occidental Petroleum, owner of the Piper Alpha platform, said it believed a gas leak was to blame, but days or weeks would be needed to determine what caused and ignited it. Occidental said the three-quarters of the 649-foot-high rig was destroyed...
Andrew Sneddon, a university lecturer on offshore engineering in Aberdeen, said, "we can only assume there was a leak of some sort. Basically, you are sitting on top of two highly flammable products--oil and gas. A leak or a spill is a potential hazard. It is extremely difficult to say what could have...