Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kenny said, "We are all certainly very concerned about security within the Arboretum during the day, and would welcome ranger patrols. 'He added that the police had no immediate plans to increase patrols along South St at night...
Those were the last words heard from the Ocean Ranger. By the time the first rescue aircraft were able to reach the site of the rig, located in the potentially rich Hibernia oilfield 180 miles east of St. John's, Nfld., it was almost dawn. All that could be seen in the roiling waves were overturned lifeboats, several bodies and bits of debris...
...rescue ships fought heavy seas and 70-m.p.h. winds to continue the search for survivors of the Ocean Ranger's 84-man crew, which included at least 14 Americans, a Soviet freighter 65 miles east of the rig radioed that it was taking on water and listing badly. Before dawn Tuesday, the 4,262-ton Mikhanik Tarasov-bound from the St. Lawrence River port of Trois Rivières to Leningrad with a load of newsprint-slipped beneath the waves, taking all but five of its 37-man crew to their deaths. By week's end 40 bodies...
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...
...wake of the Ocean -S Ranger disaster, former crew members charged that safety precautions aboard the rig were 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...