Last year, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Feb. 15, 1982 Ocean Ranger disaster, SaltWire Network remembered some of the victims and highlighted how the tragedy became a turning point for safety in the province's offshore oil and gas industry.
SaltWire Network | Posted: Feb. 15, 2022, 10:03 a.m. | Updated: Feb. 15, 2022, 10:07 a.m. | 11 Min ReadSTORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSTo mark the 40th anniversary of the Ocean Ranger disaster on Feb. 15, 1982, The SaltWire Network remembers some of the victims and highlight how the tragedy became a turning point for safety in the province's offshore oil and gas industry.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Ralph Melendy’s boat registration card found its way home to Lumsden, but the man known as Pop on the Ocean Ranger remains forever lost. Family remembers Wade Brinston as 'the centre of everybody’s world' before he was lost in the Ocean Ranger tragedy 40 years ago On the 40th anniversary of the Ocean Ranger disaster, my mind automatically drifts back to the privilege I was accorded in meeting with so many of the relatives of the men who died when the rig capsized and sank in the early morning hours of Feb. 15, 1982.
When he reported for work at the Search and Rescue Emergency Centre in St. John’s on Monday morning, Feb. 15, 1982, he knew it was serious — that possibly the Ocean Ranger drilling rig had sunk into the frigid waters 267 kilometres offshore — but there was still a lot of uncertainty.
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