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Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty (Paperback, 2009)
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The fire was visible seventy miles away as a distant, flickering flame on the horizon. The heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle at a perimeter of one mile. Flying at a height of 200 feet, the air crew saw that the tongues of flame extended high above the rotor blades. On the surface a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint on the vessel's hull blistered and burnt, and the rope handrails began to smoke. In the water surrounding the inferno, men's heads could be seen bobbing like apples as their yellow hard hats melted with the heat. At the centre stood, at least for now, the Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen, once the world's single largest oil producer. On 6 July 1988, its final day, it was ablaze with 226 men onboard. Only sixty-one would survive. Fire in the Night tells, for the first time and in gripping detail, the devastating story of that summer evening. Combining interviews with survivors, witness statements and transcripts from the official enquiry into the disaster, this is the moving and vivid tale of what happened on that fateful night inside an oil rig inferno.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139780330471930
eBay Product ID (ePID)90883071
Product Key Features
Book TitleFire in the Night: the Piper Alpha Disaster
AuthorStephen Mcginty
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGovernment
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight234g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorStephen Mcginty
Topic AreaEconomic Sociology
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 13 Feb, 2022
A harrowing account of a horrific event ... but an amazing read and insight to that fateful night
Great account of a harrowing event. An incredible reminder for anyone working offshore in the Oil & Gas industry of the dangers we continually face ... and of course the sacrifice made by these men that helped improve safety within this industryVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 30 Sep, 2022
great
great book, must readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 27 Jul, 2021
A compelling but harrowing read.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Aug, 2020
Excellent
Excellently written factual account of a horrific disasterVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 21 Jul, 2021
Great
Looking forward to finish reading compellingVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Jun, 2024
Great thanks
Great thanksVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
