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...rig, a Soviet freighter and 116 lives are lost...
...call for help that flashed into the Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, N.S., at 1:56 a.m. carried an unmistakable note of desperation: "Request assistance a.s.a.p. ... We are an offshore drilling platform ... Winds at this time are approx.... 75 knots.. . Rig is of semisubmersible build ... is listing severely 12° to 14°portside...
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...
This President is not a dedicated collector. He owns one small Grandma Moses painting, one Charles Russell bronze statue of a boxer (a gift) and several contemporary western artworks. His modest gun collection came from gifts. He has no yacht-just a 12-ft. canoe, the Truluv. His stereo rig would be spurned by the average twelve-year-old. The Corum $20-gold-piece watch he sports is a ten-year-old gift from friends. A couple of years ago, he and Nancy made a pact for a mutual Christmas gift, a power log splitter...