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Lately, popular fears have been stirred by a rash of mishaps involving salt domes. Last June methane gas exploded at a salt mine on Belle Isle, La., killing three miners and injuring 17 others. In November an oil-drilling rig accidentally punctured a salt-mine shaft under Jefferson Island, La., sending much of a 1.5-sq.-mi. lake gurgling down into the dome. The most frightening accidents have involved still another use of salt domes: as cheap, convenient storage tanks for crude-oil and natural-gas products. Last fall hundreds of people had to flee Mont Belvieu, Texas...
...EARLY START. That means Wednesday, or Thursday at the latest. Unless your daddy owns an oil rig, you'll be driving down, and that means 30 hours minimum. Beat the crowd to the dunes, or you may be left behind at the pool...
...Thomas Loberg, 63, and Wife Rignor, 62, believe that they and their 47-ft cruiser Rig-n-Tom were nearly lured to disaster near Chub Cay last year by a fake S O S. The radio caller mysteriously requested Rig-n-Tom's position rather than giving his own. A traveling companion, Pat Vaughan, happened to be reading about misleading distress calls in The Island, Peter Benchley's fictional account of modern Bahamian piracy, and urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared...
Fagnani was working on an oil rig 60 miles off the coast, when the helicopter dispatched to evacuate the rig for protection from Hurricane Allen went down in turbulent weather. Twelve others died in the mishap...
...will grace the sides of 30 or more 18-wheelers, along with the Slogan FOLLOW ME TO TENNESSEE. Parton was on hand at a Nashville truck stop to christen her first rolling billboard. Hefting a bottle of champagne over her head, she took a ladylike swipe at the monster rig and ... nothing happened. She swung again. No luck. And again. This time the bottle shattered on the asphalt lot. Coolly, Parton borrowed a wineglass and splashed some bubbly on target. The truckers all cheered, and one asked if she had a CB handle. "Not really," chirped the interstate pinup. "What...