put the sponsors at the very end or very beginning, you make fucking disaster documentaries, at least pretend to care a bit? its kinda sick man. I am about to hear about hte oil rig I am learning about, and then BAM, is your wallet too big? It feels gross, thats all.
@Grey It's a paid endorsement retard. Stop acting like you don't understand how advertising works. You want free content stop whining about channels having sponsors. You could always fuck off to Netflix. Watch Jack & Jill.
I’m from Newfoundland and I remember hearing of the people who died on the Ocean Ranger, decades later our economy is still completely dependant on these oil rig workers, so much respect
I’ve made many friends and connections in St. John’s, Newfoundland from this tragedy. The people there are very kindhearted and they hold a memorial service every year on February 15th for the 84 men lost on that fateful night. I lost my father and my Uncle. Take care.
Brick Immortar has a doc on this as well. He talks about that at 11:13 in that video. The portholes in there were used to measure draft on the rig. Good idea for ballast operation. They even had storm covers. Sadly, nature found another use.
@@Vaginaninja True. But what was a bad idea was not installing a backup ballast control panel somewhere else on the rig when it was built. A piece of equipment that vital there should be a backup.
If I get a boat, which I plan to, I'm naming it Davey Jones' Locker. But I'm also not taking it into the gulf or ocean and never in anything other than perfect weather.
@@mommy2libras What about a freak blow that could occur on any body of water? I wouldn’t recommend being at sea. The sea & the weather are a beautifully horrific toxic couple.
It doesn't work like that, unfortunately. If it's called unsinkable, it's ironically fated to sink. If it's called sinkable, fate says ok, and it's also fated to sink. You have to give it a name that has nothing to do with its ability to sink.
I have heard things about this tragic event for years. Thanks for putting it all together. I got out of the military in 1968 and worked for a company in Morgan City, Louisiana doing two way radio installation and repair work for companies on and offshore for about two years. I visited many of ODECO's floating rigs either doing work for them or the oil company leasing the rigs. I always liked ODECO and had a good rapport with their management. The two way radios were their way of communicating with the shore and boats working the rigs. I did this for two years before going to work for a pipeline company doing the same type of work. I was even trained on how to prepare and use the same type of lifeboats that were on the Ocean Ranger. They were meant to be used in case of a well blowout rather than bad weather. I always wondered about the ability to disconnect the cables once the lifeboat was in the water. On the Ocean Ranger when they pulled the drill pipe and stored it in the derrick they made the rig more unstable. Had they not pulled the drill pipe the storm would have dragged the rig and the upwind anchors downwind. This probably happened to some extent. They could control the slack in the anchor cables in normal weather to stay centered over the well site. On the rigs I visited the anchors and ballast were controlled in a wheel house type of room above deck. You could look out much like being on a big ship. I thank the good lord for looking out for me. During my time working in the Gulf of Mexico I was on two rigs that had blowouts, fought a fire on one rig by myself for 20 minutes before I could get help, fell off a rig once, road two boats in bad weather that almost sunk, rode on a helicopter that had the engine quit and weathered two hurricanes in place before Camille put a stop to that. I eventually went back to school and got two engibering degrees and a masters in education. I am now 76 years old and retired.
I remember when this tragedy happened 40 years and here in Newfoundland we still carry memorial service for the 84 souls lost at sea. One more thing a tragic footnote when the call went for help one of the responders was a Soviet fishing vessel but it was sunk in the same storm that sank the Ocean Ranger with most hands lost at sea. 😢
only once have i heard my grandfather talk about the ocean ranger. he was on the zapata ugland. my nana still remembers hearing about the sinking & not knowing what rig went down.
I remember hearing about the submarine (I thought was German)next day on the news. We, the children, were glued to our tv screen waiting to see if they found our daddy and our mother’s brother our uncle Robert. My mother was barely able to speak because of shock and Odeco had not called her to let her know anything. Almost a week went by before she heard from them and only to hear that her brother had been found with the lifeboat and they were calling off the search for the rest because it was just too dangerous. That’s when she begged for them to please keep looking. After that she was catatonic. I thank God our priest and family physician were there to help her.
First rule of disaster: Never, never ever call a thing unbreakable, undestroyable or unsinkable. There will be always a person or circumstance to proof, that it´s not.
Imagine getting in a lifeboat and seeing a rescue vessel and thinking you survived only to die trying to board the rescue vessel. I hope all those guys families got taken care of for life.
No, the corrupt companies only paid out a paltry $20 million for 84 people. That’s criminal. That’s pocket change to the CEOs and other sociopathic executives in those companies. And oil companies get billions in subsidies each year. It’s time to STOP all subsidies (corporate theft) to oil companies and hold executives directly responsible for incidents like this. They should all be tried, convicted and thrown in prison. And their wealth should be stripped from them. There is zero corporate accountability. Sadly, republicans and Rightwingers oppose any measure to make corporate executives accountable.
Just a note: whike you stated that 'everyone' was surprised that the Ocean Ranger had sunk, it's nickname was The Ocean Danger. Not many people who actually worked out there were surprised.
I can assure you Newfoundlanders of all ages have never forgotten this tragedy and there is a memorial service held every year by the high school where most of these young men graduated from.
@@Countrybananas I’ve been to 3 memorial services. My father and Uncle both lost their lives. I’m from South Carolina in the USA so it’s very costly and then when Covid hit it was impossible. I do watch it live on here. Thank you 😊
@@Lainy_Donlon I'm very sorry for your loss but glad you've been able to still watch remotely. You may have noticed a venue change this year as St. Pius X was auctioned off as part of the class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newfoundland. To my understanding future memorials will now be held in the Basilica of St. John the Baptist which is frankly a far more prestigious venue anyway.
hey Dark History, have you ever thought about doing a collaboration with Brick Immorter? i think it would be a great idea if you did ship disaster videos like this together, just an idea though i would like to see it
@@Awesomes007 in this video its explained how if the ballast operator didn't restart power it wouldn't have sank.. So in this case it was human error. The first guy already stopped the valves and the second unknowingly restarted the bad valve controller
I'm from there. It is still something that is talked about where I live. A lot of Newfoundland is small communities, where everyone knows everyone. The Ocean Ranger and the Cougar helicopter flight 91 crash are essentially seared into Newfoundlanders and Labradorian's memories.
Yes, especially around the St. John’s area. When I was able to go to the Ocean Ranger memorial service before the Covid Pandemic. Now it’s so hard to get into another country. God bless
Anytime somebody calls a Ocean going vessel "unsinkable" karma proves otherwise just ask the German battle ship Bismarck, or the Japanese battle ship Yamato both were claimed to be "unsinkable" and both are on the bottom
From what I’ve heard, the Titanic incident was more due to a poorly-trained crew; the ship was genuinely very well-made, and stayed up far longer than any other ship could with damage of that kind.
@@MabiakiHauzel-j2s No, I’m saying that people maligning it over that are misunderstanding the situation, as it was the result of very bad luck and negligent crew, not bad engineering or arrogance on the part of the creators. Although I guess it does show the point that anything can sink, so calling something unsinkable is liable to result in people never letting you live it down if something happens.
@@KnakuanaRka bad maintenance crew = sink I don't see your point. It still sank, even if it was the people's fault. It still sank, no matter the matter, it will always be 'the sunken ship'
I worked for the trucking company in South Louisiana that hauled everything for ODECO back then. The equipment that was salvaged from the Ranger came in to the port of New Orleans where we picked it up and brought it to ODECO yard in Bayou Bough. We all felt the effects of that tragedy to some degree knowing all the crew perished. I was at the odeco yard the day they got the news of its demise. Everyone in the office was crying. Tough oilfield men were devastated by the accident. Everyone blames the companies as if they wanted this. When in reality it is only through tragedy that we learn better ways of training and better ways of building better equipment. Same as learning through wars. Though we didn't know a single man that worked the Ranger and it's a long way from Bayou Bough, La to Newfoundland. It was heartfelt feelings that we all felt for the crews families. I often wonder if any of the men had a prayer meeting that night to seek Gods help through the storm. ODECO and Mobil were good companies to work for and i'm sure all of the men on board were great people. So i pray that God would Bless each family member left behind and may these men all Rest In Peace!
I’m convinced that when anyone claims that something is unsinkable or any of the other immunities that it summons a force in some shape or form that solely exists to destroy that so called immune creation in the most “impossible” way.
You would think that people trained to work on oil rigs and ocean going boats that have experience would immediately know the significance and danger of that porthole breaking and water getting into that particular room. I mean even I was like uhhh... ballast control?!? That's super important....like sink the vessel important....it's very sad that they really had no chance after a certain point that they didn't even know was coming until it was too late.
Technically while not unsinkable it was extremely unlikely it would sink. if everybody had been well trained and proper equipment used it never would have tipped over. Just the malfunctioning panel alone should not have been enough. And you heard it took 3 hours to actually sink. Titanic had less than an hour. More of a tragedy than it should have been. That’s the tragedy.
Ocean Ranger Architects: "Any attack made by the ocean against this derrick would be a useless gesture, no matter what size the waves will incline! This derrick is now the ultimate oil rig in the Atlantic! I suggest we use it." The Ocean: "YOUR ARROGANCE BLINDS YOU!"
No, you’re just daring everyone to never stop giving you crap about it if it fails. Nobody cares about the braggarts that aren’t proven wrong, or all the ships that sink from less reckless engineers.
8:08 reminds me of a certain submarine disaster that wasnt equipped with mundane diving gear, despite being built with a submerged diving bay You'd have thought they would use inflatable boats or something, instead of canoe-danger, easily sinkable, tip-over wood boats.
The gross indifference and complete lack of concern for employees safety is par for the course for corporations. They only care as much as the law requires them to.
I was a kid when this happened, and I remember it quite well. The military base I lived on was going crazy. Search and rescue helicopters coming and going non-stop.
This whole time I thought this was the true story from the movie Deepwater Horizon. Come to find out that’s a completely separate and equally tragic event. Who knows how many more there are ? So sad
The scary thing is.... the area in which this sank also lays the titanic at bottom of the sea, pretty close to where this happened.... both "Unsinkable"... coincidence? :O
What a nightmare. Even tho I know basically the general ending, I’m listening to things start going to hell, and I’m still hoping that history changes b4 the end of the video, and no one ends up dying.
At that time oil companies resisted rigs following shipping rules because they argued that they weren't ships. The crews were oil workers with no mariners aboard so no formal solas training. There was no distress call from the Ocean Ranger. They were calling the oil company on shore manager. By the time the Canadian coast gaurd heard about it the crew was already dead.
You would think that anyone in the ocean marine trades would strike the word "Unsinkable: from their vocabulary! Each and every time that word is used to describe a vessel its guaranteed to sink.
There's this great error at 10:33 where the audio suffers a jump cut and the subtitles clearly show the missing lines. If Dark History ever sees this, give this error a look! This video deserves that last bit of polish.
Guess New Jersey and Ireland are as "mobile" as Mobil Oil Company, because you kinda missed with the the location pins... But a great video otherwise, and this story is yet another case study of "never say it's impossible"...
@ Titus Haynes: Thanks for the info about your job in the oil industry. Made for interesting read. Glad you made it thru the bad spots. Best comment for me. Enjoy your retirement.
I remember waking up that am...and I can tell you the storm didn't pass in the early am. We stayed home from school cause the weather was atrocious. Mother was worried sick that we had a cousin out on a supply ship in the storm. Lifetime ago
The ultimate cause of the death of 84 men WAS NOT that the rig sank, for whatever reason. Nobody believed the rig was "unsinkable" otherwise it wouldn't have carried lifeboats. The major failing here that doomed the workers was that nobody thought about the reality of launching lifeboats from high above the water in heavy seas, if they had then they would have supplied steel, not fibreglass, lifeboats, which if banged against the rig would not have shattered. Given the known water temperatures the men should also have been supplied with emergency survival suits.
My scuba diving partner went into saturation diving, but I didn't want too live a month in steel pipe too survive the surface, so I passed! His mother was hospitalized an he was flown home too visit her. When he was home visiting mother his oil rig flipped over an many were killed. It's about right on time period, I wonder if this was his oil rig disaster?
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put the sponsors at the very end or very beginning, you make fucking disaster documentaries, at least pretend to care a bit? its kinda sick man. I am about to hear about hte oil rig I am learning about, and then BAM, is your wallet too big? It feels gross, thats all.
I was in grade 10 and I remember this it was like a hurricane in the winter.
@@Hellforsa Don't you want a square piece of metal poking you in the ass every time you sit down?
@Grey It's a paid endorsement retard. Stop acting like you don't understand how advertising works. You want free content stop whining about channels having sponsors. You could always fuck off to Netflix. Watch Jack & Jill.
Literally every time someone calls a ship or rig “unsinkable”, it’s basically fated every ship and rig to drown
Exactly.
The ocean bottom's museum of sunken vessels is verification for your comment.
Yes! Every time this is said, Poseidon says "hold my spear."
They should try "The sinkable-est"
@@nicolen.4514 lol
I’m from Newfoundland and I remember hearing of the people who died on the Ocean Ranger, decades later our economy is still completely dependant on these oil rig workers, so much respect
yet oil will end us all via catastrophic climate change , the ironies !
I’ve made many friends and connections in St. John’s, Newfoundland from this tragedy. The people there are very kindhearted and they hold a memorial service every year on February 15th for the 84 men lost on that fateful night. I lost my father and my Uncle. Take care.
Respect? No. Oil is a shit resource, and more money needs to go into renewable energy.
@@eins2001 thats a very ignorant statement
@@Rebrn-bk5em also a very true statement, ignorant would be saying it isnt.
You have a structure out in the ocean with a room full of essential electronics, and you fit a porthole?
Really sensible.
Porthole wasn't strong enough. Doesn't mean it was a bad idea.
Brick Immortar has a doc on this as well. He talks about that at 11:13 in that video. The portholes in there were used to measure draft on the rig. Good idea for ballast operation. They even had storm covers. Sadly, nature found another use.
@@Vaginaninja True. But what was a bad idea was not installing a backup ballast control panel somewhere else on the rig when it was built. A piece of equipment that vital there should be a backup.
Less expensive than installing and maitianing a CCTV system... needed a Royal Commission to force the corporate bastards to spend a dollar.
@@killman369547 I would feel safer if the whole room was on deck level ngl
I’m convinced that if someone claimed their ship is “hypersinkable” and gave it a weak name “glass” or “eggshell” that it’ll never sink.
If I get a boat, which I plan to, I'm naming it Davey Jones' Locker. But I'm also not taking it into the gulf or ocean and never in anything other than perfect weather.
@@mommy2libras What about a freak blow that could occur on any body of water? I wouldn’t recommend being at sea. The sea & the weather are a beautifully horrific toxic couple.
I feel like it's forbidden to name something "the unsinkable sinkable"
It doesn't work like that, unfortunately. If it's called unsinkable, it's ironically fated to sink. If it's called sinkable, fate says ok, and it's also fated to sink. You have to give it a name that has nothing to do with its ability to sink.
USS Hypersinkable Eggshell. Come aboard :)
Lesson learned: Never ever label something unsinkable because it will end up sinking in no time.
Likewise, never EVER check into a hotel, thats claimed to be fire proof. Yes, that happened too!
HMS Invincible V would like a word
Lesson learned: none. No one called anything unsinkable til after they sank
I'll give the titanic one thing- it took its time to sink. Definitely makes the piss poor emergency response sting more
@@boldCactusladnever name a ship Hood either. Because every ship named hood or with Hood in the name has exploded
I have heard things about this tragic event for years. Thanks for putting it all together.
I got out of the military in 1968 and worked for a company in Morgan City, Louisiana doing two way radio installation and repair work for companies on and offshore for about two years. I visited many of ODECO's floating rigs either doing work for them or the oil company leasing the rigs. I always liked ODECO and had a good rapport with their management. The two way radios were their way of communicating with the shore and boats working the rigs. I did this for two years before going to work for a pipeline company doing the same type of work.
I was even trained on how to prepare and use the same type of lifeboats that were on the Ocean Ranger. They were meant to be used in case of a well blowout rather than bad weather. I always wondered about the ability to disconnect the cables once the lifeboat was in the water.
On the Ocean Ranger when they pulled the drill pipe and stored it in the derrick they made the rig more unstable. Had they not pulled the drill pipe the storm would have dragged the rig and the upwind anchors downwind. This probably happened to some extent. They could control the slack in the anchor cables in normal weather to stay centered over the well site.
On the rigs I visited the anchors and ballast were controlled in a wheel house type of room above deck. You could look out much like being on a big ship.
I thank the good lord for looking out for me. During my time working in the Gulf of Mexico I was on two rigs that had blowouts, fought a fire on one rig by myself for 20 minutes before I could get help, fell off a rig once, road two boats in bad weather that almost sunk, rode on a helicopter that had the engine quit and weathered two hurricanes in place before Camille put a stop to that.
I eventually went back to school and got two engibering degrees and a masters in education. I am now 76 years old and retired.
Brick Immortar did a really in depth video on this disaster if you're interested. His channel is like longer videos like these.
@@mommy2libras - Thanks. I will look into it.
You, sir, are a mighty man. Respect.
@@fauxpinkytoo Indeed
I as well have a couple of em ole Engamabering dee-dagum-degress
Holy crap. I've never heard about this. That literally is a tragic disaster.
Im Canadian and I've NEVER heard of this!
Check out Glomar Java Sea.
Mobil Oil did a good job minimizing news coverage.
"Literally" isn't a comma
I remember when this tragedy happened 40 years and here in Newfoundland we still carry memorial service for the 84 souls lost at sea. One more thing a tragic footnote when the call went for help one of the responders was a Soviet fishing vessel but it was sunk in the same storm that sank the Ocean Ranger with most hands lost at sea. 😢
only once have i heard my grandfather talk about the ocean ranger. he was on the zapata ugland. my nana still remembers hearing about the sinking & not knowing what rig went down.
I remember hearing about the submarine (I thought was German)next day on the news. We, the children, were glued to our tv screen waiting to see if they found our daddy and our mother’s brother our uncle Robert. My mother was barely able to speak because of shock and Odeco had not called her to let her know anything. Almost a week went by before she heard from them and only to hear that her brother had been found with the lifeboat and they were calling off the search for the rest because it was just too dangerous. That’s when she begged for them to please keep looking. After that she was catatonic. I thank God our priest and family physician were there to help her.
@@Lainy_Donlon😢
First rule of disaster:
Never, never ever call a thing unbreakable, undestroyable or unsinkable. There will be always a person or circumstance to proof, that it´s not.
the Kursk was also deemed "Undestroyable hunter" and you know what happened to it
Imagine getting in a lifeboat and seeing a rescue vessel and thinking you survived only to die trying to board the rescue vessel. I hope all those guys families got taken care of for life.
No, the corrupt companies only paid out a paltry $20 million for 84 people. That’s criminal. That’s pocket change to the CEOs and other sociopathic executives in those companies. And oil companies get billions in subsidies each year. It’s time to STOP all subsidies (corporate theft) to oil companies and hold executives directly responsible for incidents like this. They should all be tried, convicted and thrown in prison. And their wealth should be stripped from them. There is zero corporate accountability. Sadly, republicans and Rightwingers oppose any measure to make corporate executives accountable.
Murphy's Law always pops into my head when I hear unsinkable, fireproof etc. If something CAN go wrong, it WILL go wrong.
Just a note: whike you stated that 'everyone' was surprised that the Ocean Ranger had sunk, it's nickname was The Ocean Danger.
Not many people who actually worked out there were surprised.
Many of we older Canadian petro front-line men remember this tragedy every valentines day
Thank you for keeping them in your thoughts. Tragic and unnecessary loss of life
I can assure you Newfoundlanders of all ages have never forgotten this tragedy and there is a memorial service held every year by the high school where most of these young men graduated from.
@@Countrybananas I’ve been to 3 memorial services. My father and Uncle both lost their lives. I’m from South Carolina in the USA so it’s very costly and then when Covid hit it was impossible. I do watch it live on here. Thank you 😊
@@Lainy_Donlon I'm very sorry for your loss but glad you've been able to still watch remotely. You may have noticed a venue change this year as St. Pius X was auctioned off as part of the class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newfoundland. To my understanding future memorials will now be held in the Basilica of St. John the Baptist which is frankly a far more prestigious venue anyway.
hey Dark History, have you ever thought about doing a collaboration with Brick Immorter? i think it would be a great idea if you did ship disaster videos like this together, just an idea though i would like to see it
Underrated comment.
Fascinating horror as well!
Good idea. Brick Immortar and Fascinating Horror are really good channels too.
@@reeflab2221 love Fascinating Horror. Disasterthon is great too!
I was getting deja vus starting this...also I wondered where the mayday call was
I like what Mark Twain said about an expert: "Just some guy from out of town." When "experts" say a vessel is "unsinkable," it's sinkable.
It really seems like "unsinkable" and "worlds largest" just never end well
Hyperbole
How can you blame the victims when it's finally admitted at the end that poor design and lack of training were at fault?
He isnt blaming them, its the sad fact that the workers caused the rig to sink... Because they weren't trained for emergency situations ect ect
@@RadicalEdward_115 that’s a systematic problem. It’s never a chain of human errors, it’s always a chain of systematic, built in failure points.
@@Awesomes007 in this video its explained how if the ballast operator didn't restart power it wouldn't have sank.. So in this case it was human error. The first guy already stopped the valves and the second unknowingly restarted the bad valve controller
@@Awesomes007 😂😂😂😂
@@Aletheia-Media raise your hand if you’d design a 100 million dollar system that could be destroyed by one person flipping the wrong switch.
Note to self: Never set foot on anything declared unsinkable.
They ALL died 😢 ...even the last bunch that held out...how sad
Oh the power of Mother Nature!!!! Never underestimate her! Such a terrifying & sad ordeal.😪
As a Newfoundlander born in the early 2000's, this story still hurts to this day. May god rest the souls of the sailors aboard the Ocean Ranger.
Them: "unsinkable"
Everyone: "oh no"
I never heard of this disaster. What a terrifying, awful way to die! Rip to all who lost their lives. 😢😢😢
How many times do I have to tell you old man, calling something "unsinkable" will be fated to sink?
Or maybe you just remember the ones that sunk because people comment on it; the braggarts who aren’t proven wrong don’t get so much attention .
😆😆😆
I'm from there. It is still something that is talked about where I live. A lot of Newfoundland is small communities, where everyone knows everyone. The Ocean Ranger and the Cougar helicopter flight 91 crash are essentially seared into Newfoundlanders and Labradorian's memories.
Yes, especially around the St. John’s area. When I was able to go to the Ocean Ranger memorial service before the Covid Pandemic. Now it’s so hard to get into another country. God bless
Humans: "It's unsinkable."
Nature: "And I took that personally."
Haven’t seen anyone make this joke, real original…
We should stop calling things unsinkable, because especialy these sink
Speaking of Canada, would you ever do the Halifax Explosion? I've read about it before but I think your form of narration would be really interesting.
Check out the channel:
“Fascinating Horror”.
There is a story about that there. It’s an excellent channel.
Oh god this is heartwrenching. RIP to all those poor people.
Moral of the story.... never call anything 'unsinkable'
oxidation is loss, reduction is gain, unsinkable is sealing your fate
Anytime somebody calls a Ocean going vessel "unsinkable" karma proves otherwise just ask the German battle ship Bismarck, or the Japanese battle ship Yamato both were claimed to be "unsinkable" and both are on the bottom
And Titanic, and Kursk and the Ocean Ranger
@@SocialDamian yeah you're right calling a ship " unsinkable" is just asking for trouble
It seems that lifeboat designers never anticipate how to launch them while the ship is under adverse conditions
Never describe any floating object as unsinkable.... the Sea will say, "Hold my beer!"
Whenever I hear that something is called 'unsinkable', I always think: "Did we learn nothing from the Titanic??"
From what I’ve heard, the Titanic incident was more due to a poorly-trained crew; the ship was genuinely very well-made, and stayed up far longer than any other ship could with damage of that kind.
@@KnakuanaRka so the titanic didn't sink?
@@MabiakiHauzel-j2s No, I’m saying that people maligning it over that are misunderstanding the situation, as it was the result of very bad luck and negligent crew, not bad engineering or arrogance on the part of the creators.
Although I guess it does show the point that anything can sink, so calling something unsinkable is liable to result in people never letting you live it down if something happens.
@@KnakuanaRka bad maintenance crew = sink
I don't see your point. It still sank, even if it was the people's fault. It still sank, no matter the matter, it will always be 'the sunken ship'
The ocean seems to take any vessel called unsinkable as a personal challenge
Excellent episode of a very tragic event!!!🙏😢❣️
Rule #1: if it can float, it can sink.
I worked for the trucking company in South Louisiana that hauled everything for ODECO back then. The equipment that was salvaged from the Ranger came in to the port of New Orleans where we picked it up and brought it to ODECO yard in Bayou Bough. We all felt the effects of that tragedy to some degree knowing all the crew perished. I was at the odeco yard the day they got the news of its demise. Everyone in the office was crying. Tough oilfield men were devastated by the accident. Everyone blames the companies as if they wanted this. When in reality it is only through tragedy that we learn better ways of training and better ways of building better equipment. Same as learning through wars. Though we didn't know a single man that worked the Ranger and it's a long way from Bayou Bough, La to Newfoundland. It was heartfelt feelings that we all felt for the crews families. I often wonder if any of the men had a prayer meeting that night to seek Gods help through the storm. ODECO and Mobil were good companies to work for and i'm sure all of the men on board were great people. So i pray that God would Bless each family member left behind and may these men all Rest In Peace!
I’m convinced that when anyone claims that something is unsinkable or any of the other immunities that it summons a force in some shape or form that solely exists to destroy that so called immune creation in the most “impossible” way.
Or maybe you remember it more often when someone says that and it ends up wrong; the braggarts who aren’t shown wrong aren’t given crap for it.
You would think that people trained to work on oil rigs and ocean going boats that have experience would immediately know the significance and danger of that porthole breaking and water getting into that particular room. I mean even I was like uhhh... ballast control?!? That's super important....like sink the vessel important....it's very sad that they really had no chance after a certain point that they didn't even know was coming until it was too late.
unfortunately, they were only trained on the oil drilling portion of their work and everything else was neglected
I would think that after 1912 no one will belive calling something "unsinkable" is goog idea
Reportedly nicknamed “Ocean Danger.”
I really appreciate you put metric system
Good video indeed
I wouldn’t get in a canoe on a duck pond if someone said it was unsinkable.
At the very least, I’d assume that they severely overestimate their competence.
Technically while not unsinkable it was extremely unlikely it would sink. if everybody had been well trained and proper equipment used it never would have tipped over. Just the malfunctioning panel alone should not have been enough. And you heard it took 3 hours to actually sink. Titanic had less than an hour. More of a tragedy than it should have been. That’s the tragedy.
Sounds more like a flaw inherent in the design, than user error...
No amount of training could’ve saved anyone on this day. The ocean spoke and sunk the Ranger.
42yrs as of yesterday.. may they RIP...
Would love to see you do a video on the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig disaster 😍
Unsinkable
Titanic: been there, done that
it went from the largest semi-submersible oil rig in the world to the largest fully-submersible oil rig in the world!
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Lol
that's too sad, just when they were in the face of hope of being rescued then suddenly their boat tumbled over
Ocean Ranger Architects: "Any attack made by the ocean against this derrick would be a useless gesture, no matter what size the waves will incline! This derrick is now the ultimate oil rig in the Atlantic! I suggest we use it."
The Ocean: "YOUR ARROGANCE BLINDS YOU!"
If you call something "unsinkable" you're just daring Poseidon to end its career.
No, you’re just daring everyone to never stop giving you crap about it if it fails. Nobody cares about the braggarts that aren’t proven wrong, or all the ships that sink from less reckless engineers.
There’s something so creepy about large structures in the middle of the sea.
I really wish people would stop calling things unsinkable.
Lesson of the day: Never call something "Unsinkable"
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“Jim.”
“…”
“What have we learned?”
“To not call ships unsinkable”
“What was that?”
“To not call ships unsinkable.”
“That’s what I like to hear.”
8:08 reminds me of a certain submarine disaster that wasnt equipped with mundane diving gear, despite being built with a submerged diving bay
You'd have thought they would use inflatable boats or something, instead of canoe-danger, easily sinkable, tip-over wood boats.
The gross indifference and complete lack of concern for employees safety is par for the course for corporations. They only care as much as the law requires them to.
After watching documentaries on Texas City and Deepwater Horizion, I'd say your post sums up BP pretty accurately
I was a kid when this happened, and I remember it quite well. The military base I lived on was going crazy. Search and rescue helicopters coming and going non-stop.
This whole time I thought this was the true story from the movie Deepwater Horizon. Come to find out that’s a completely separate and equally tragic event. Who knows how many more there are ? So sad
The scary thing is.... the area in which this sank also lays the titanic at bottom of the sea, pretty close to where this happened.... both "Unsinkable"... coincidence? :O
What a nightmare. Even tho I know basically the general ending, I’m listening to things start going to hell, and I’m still hoping that history changes b4 the end of the video, and no one ends up dying.
For equipment as vital as ballast control, there should've been a backup ballast control room on the port side.
At that time oil companies resisted rigs following shipping rules because they argued that they weren't ships. The crews were oil workers with no mariners aboard so no formal solas training. There was no distress call from the Ocean Ranger. They were calling the oil company on shore manager. By the time the Canadian coast gaurd heard about it the crew was already dead.
The moment anything is called 'unsinkable', history would suggest that it would be best to avoid it at all costs!
The words unsinkable is the kiss of death!!
I will trust a ship made out of tissue paper before I trust a ship labeled as “Unsinkable”
The worker pictured at 8:10 looks shockingly like my little brother- it really made this video hit differently 😔
Call anything unsinkable,God process to sink said unsinkable thing man creates may those who parished at sea be forever remembered
One broken window brings down the whole neighborhood.
You would think that anyone in the ocean marine trades would strike the word "Unsinkable: from their vocabulary! Each and every time that word is used to describe a vessel its guaranteed to sink.
I'm not big on superstition, but I wouldn't blame them if they did that
petition to not label anything unsinkable anymore
As an engineer, never say your creations are indestructible, because mother nature would break that ego
Never call something unsinkable
There's this great error at 10:33 where the audio suffers a jump cut and the subtitles clearly show the missing lines. If Dark History ever sees this, give this error a look! This video deserves that last bit of polish.
Guess New Jersey and Ireland are as "mobile" as Mobil Oil Company, because you kinda missed with the the location pins...
But a great video otherwise, and this story is yet another case study of "never say it's impossible"...
This is so horrible 😭 all those workers😞
@ Titus Haynes: Thanks for the info about your job in the oil industry. Made for interesting read. Glad you made it thru the bad spots. Best comment for me. Enjoy your retirement.
Titanic: “Come on in boys, the waters fine.”
Yeah that oil rig did a Poseidon Adventure.
I remember waking up that am...and I can tell you the storm didn't pass in the early am. We stayed home from school cause the weather was atrocious. Mother was worried sick that we had a cousin out on a supply ship in the storm. Lifetime ago
The North Atlantic during the winter time can be tricky to say the least!
Here in newfoundland we used to live by the sea and die by the sea. You should cover the great sealing disaster of 1914.
The crew of the Highlander were very, very brave in their effort to save those men. Sad
They should have thought about what happened 70 years before naming it unsinkable
Random Ship/Rig, "I'm *unsinkable* !"
Every object within a 50 mile radius, " *No.* "
crazy because I'm watching this on valentine's day
It's almost as if whenever something is dubbed as unsinkable, it actually sinks.
The ultimate cause of the death of 84 men WAS NOT that the rig sank, for whatever reason. Nobody believed the rig was "unsinkable" otherwise it wouldn't have carried lifeboats. The major failing here that doomed the workers was that nobody thought about the reality of launching lifeboats from high above the water in heavy seas, if they had then they would have supplied steel, not fibreglass, lifeboats, which if banged against the rig would not have shattered. Given the known water temperatures the men should also have been supplied with emergency survival suits.
Even after the Titanic, they didn't learn to stop calling floating things "unsinkable" ... and honestly, what an easily avoidable design flaw...
Nice video !
The thought that even an oil rig can sink makes me seasick
the issue is if your going to have these platforms you need to have resources set up for this kinda situation
If I was to own a Ship/Boat or any kind of Water Craft
I would name it the "Sinkable"
Unsinkable. Where did I hear that before?
I remember this. My mother knew some one who was on the ocean Ranger. got up and she was watching the tv reports in shock.
My scuba diving partner went into saturation diving, but I didn't want too live a month in steel pipe too survive the surface, so I passed! His mother was hospitalized an he was flown home too visit her. When he was home visiting mother his oil rig flipped over an many were killed. It's about right on time period, I wonder if this was his oil rig disaster?
What a horrendous disaster!