On this day ...

[Hungry Haggis]

Do you remember where you were what you were doing on this day. Personaly I was on the coast road going north when this happened and all hell broke loose
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22840445

edit to rectify the title date

[RLN]

I do remember this. Isolation cock up by my equivalent on board the rig. Shows the responsibility we have to get it right 100% of the time. Anything less is not good enough. Sometimes I wonder why I get out of bed in the morning. It cost lots of lives, but someone who hits a little ball gets paid millions.. they should try some responsibility , sometime.

[Sooty655]

I do remember this. Isolation cock up by my equivalent on board the rig. Shows the responsibility we have to get it right 100% of the time. Anything less is not good enough. Sometimes I wonder why I get out of bed in the morning. It cost lots of lives, but someone who hits a little ball gets paid millions.. they should try some responsibility , sometime.

Yes, but made much worse by deficiencies (with hindsight) in the platform design. It led to major modifications being made to many platforms around the world.

[RLN]

Yes. As is usual in these disasters it is usually a design/system fault, but it is not the designer or the executive who approved the design, it is the poor sod who has to work with what he's given who gets the blame.

[Hungry Haggis]

I just noticed the year is wrong It should be 1988.

This event in 1988 is the last clear memory I have due to a major accident myself some 10 weeks later .
R.I.P.

[Hungry Haggis]

I just noticed the year is wrong It should be 1988.

This event in 1988 is the last clear memory I have due to a major accident myself some 10 weeks later .
R.I.P.