The Ocean Ranger

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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781552667149

<p>On February 15, 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland taking the entire crew of eighty-four men &#8212; including the author&#8217;s brother &#8212; down with it. It was the worst sea disaster in Canada since the Second World War, but the memory of this event gradually faded into a sad story about a bad storm &#8212; relegated to the &#8220;Extreme Weather&#8221; section of the CBC archives. Susan Dodd resurrects this disaster from the realm of &#8220;history&#8221; and maps the socio-political processes of its aftermath, when power, money and collective hopes for the future revised the story of corporate indifference and betrayal of public trust into a &#8220;lesson learned&#8221; by an heroic industry advancing technology in the face of a brutal environment. This book is a navigational resource for other disaster aftermaths, including that of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, and a call for vigilant government regulation of industry in all its forms.</p>