Episode 86 - MODU Ocean Ranger

Welcome to Season Three of Beyond the Breakers!

We are starting the new year by talking about the 1982 sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Ocean Ranger in the Hibernia Field of the Grand Banks.

Sources:

Collier, Keith. "The Loss of the Ocean Ranger, 15 February 1982." Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, October 2016. www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/economy/ocean-ranger.php

Dodd, Susan. The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil. Fernwood Publishing, 2012

Heffernan, Mike. Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster. Creative Publishers, 2009.

Higgins, Jenny. "Response to the Ocean Ranger Disaster." Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, August 2018. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/ocean-ranger-disaster-response.php

Moore, Lisa. February. Black Cat, 2009.

Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster

USCG Marine Casualty Report - Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Ocean Ranger

Further Reading:

Babaian, Sharon. "View of Evidence From a Disaster: The Ocean Ranger Collection at the Canada Science and Technology Musuem" 

Dodd, Campbell, and Dalziel. "The Ocean Ranger Disaster taught us much but lack of action by governments, corporations still fails workers." Saltwire, 14 Feb 2022. https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/commentary-the-ocean-ranger-disaster-taught-us-much-but-lack-of-action-by-governments-corporations-still-fails-workers-100693052/