The Piper Alpha Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"On the 6th of July 1988 an explosion took place on board the Piper Alpha oil platform situated in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Background
02:29 - The Piper Alpha Disaster
08:35 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "Piper Alpha: The Disaster in Detail" by Fiona Macleod and Stephen Richardson, published by The Chemical Engineer, July 2018. Link: https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/features/piper-alpha-the-disaster-in-detail/
► "The Piper Alpha Disaster: A Personal Perspective with Transferrable Lessons on the Long-Term Moral Impact of Safety Failures" by Marc Reid, published by the American Chemical Society, February 2020. Available via: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.9b00022
► "The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster" by the Hon Lord Cullen, published by The Health and Safety Executive, November 1990. Available via: https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/piper-alpha-disaster-public-inquiry.htm
► "Piper Alpha survivor Billy Clayton re-lives fateful night of horrors" by Katie Davies, published by Chronicle Live, July 2013. Link: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/piper-alpha-survivor-billy-clayton-4877058

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