Piper Alpha : a survivor's story.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : W. H. Allen, 1989Description: 212 p. : ill. (some col.), portsISBN:

0352325275pbk

DDC classification:

363.348 PIP

Subject: At 21.58 hours on 6 July 1988 the first in a series of explosions rocks the oil rig, Piper Alpha. Some 230 men are believed to be aboard. The oil industry's worst disaster claims the lives of 167 men; only the very lucky - among them Ed Punchard - will survive. His story brings alive the terrible events of that tragic night: his amazing escape from the inferno; the inadequacies of the rescue facilities; the post-traumatic stress disorders experienced by survivors and bereaved. Trained as a deep sea diver, Ed Punchard became an inspection controller - the job he did on the ill-fated Piper Alpha. He shows how years of neglect and financial cutbacks in the oil industry have resulted in avoidable accidents and unnecessary deaths. Piper Alpha a survivor's story is the moving account of how one man lived through the world's worst ever offshore tragedy and coped with its painful aftermath

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.348 PUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005324801

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At 21.58 hours on 6 July 1988 the first in a series of explosions rocks the oil rig, Piper Alpha. Some 230 men are believed to be aboard. The oil industry's worst disaster claims the lives of 167 men; only the very lucky - among them Ed Punchard - will survive. His story brings alive the terrible events of that tragic night: his amazing escape from the inferno; the inadequacies of the rescue facilities; the post-traumatic stress disorders experienced by survivors and bereaved. Trained as a deep sea diver, Ed Punchard became an inspection controller - the job he did on the ill-fated Piper Alpha. He shows how years of neglect and financial cutbacks in the oil industry have resulted in avoidable accidents and unnecessary deaths. Piper Alpha a survivor's story is the moving account of how one man lived through the world's worst ever offshore tragedy and coped with its painful aftermath

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