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Built in Japan in 1976 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., the $120 million Ocean Ranger was the largest semisubmersible oil rig in operation, 396 ft. long, 262 ft. wide and 337 ft. high, with twelve 45,000-lb. anchors. The sinking of the rig was a tragic reminder that even though they are designed to ride out the most severe storms-110-ft. waves and 115-m.p.h. winds in the case of the Ocean Ranger-offshore drilling platforms are not the safest of workplaces. Since 1976, when a rig collapsed during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico, killing...
...inadequate and that some crew members were poorly trained. The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian government began investigations to examine these questions, and also the design and seaworthiness of the rig. Owned by the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. of New Orleans and leased by Mobil Oil Canada Ltd., the Ocean Ranger had not been inspected in two years, and its U.S. Coast Guard certificate of inspection had expired on Dec. 27. Two Coast Guard officers were on their way from Providence to recertify the rig when last week's storm hit. Only nine days before the accident...
Meanwhile in London, Sir Freddie was down last week but certainly not yet out. A loyal British public had rallied behind him and donated some ?3 million ($5.5 million) to a Freddie Friendly Fund to help him launch another carrier. Laker and Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, managing director of Lonrho Ltd. and one of Britain's most talked-about businessmen, were considering joining forces in a new flying venture that could be airborne by April. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chicago and Bruce van Voorst/New York
...this hot, blue Sunday morning, on this pontoon in Hong Kong harbor, on a crate marked PRECISION EXPLOSIONS, LTD., the priest sits safely. He has just arrived from Haiphong with 28 others, who five weeks ago slipped aboard too small a junk and trusted themselves to the South China Sea. Behind him the junk bobs crazily in the harbor, giving an idea of how it must have rolled in open swells. His fellow refugees huddle together on the pontoon, staring straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from...
Minnesota Zoo Logo and Sign System, Apple Valley, Minn. Lance Wyman, Ltd., designer. Graphic communication that informs with delightful directness, charm and humor...