91 Men KILLED by This Anchor!
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Another great video 👍 should do one on the MSC Napoli, interesting story and salvage operation.
Your grammar and use of tenses is not as it should be. If you would like help with your scripts contact me.
Sorry, but the title is misleading. Giving a big thumbs down for that dishonesty, and won't be subscribing.
Edit: Seeing similar tactics used for your other videos means I will tell RUclips not to recommend any more videos from your channel. You can make eye catching thumbnails and titles without resorting to such dishonesty.
Look into the sinking of the Sedco 472 in I believe it was 1986 in the China sea. She was the sister ship of the Sedco BP 471. I was on the bridge of 471 when the teletype flashed her sinking. If memory serves me well she broke in half all hands lost.
SEDCO 472 is a Drilling vessel built in 1977 by MITSUI TAMANO ENGINEERING & SHIPBUILDING - TAMANO, JAPAN. Current status: Decommissioned or lost. It's gross tonnage is 7538 tons.
Entire operation, CRIMINAL!! & the COMPANY TOOK OUT WEATHER RADIOS?? &the " CAPTAIN" SAILED ANYWAY???WTF!!
I worked for a company that did forensic analysis of accidents for insurance companies. Whenever our results didn’t match what they wanted, they wouldn’t accept the reports. If they accepted the reports they would have to share them during discovery. We still got paid but they didn’t accept the reports so they were never published. There are many “unsolved “ accidents and plane crashes we actually solved in only a few days. The reports on what happened will never see the light of day until all the relatives are dead and can’t sue.
Hmmm. Interesting 🤔.
Yup, I worked for a third party engineering inspection firm....There's a whole lot of burying or ignoring information and test results. I once pointed out some structural discrepancies that another inspector had missed, I was told to mind my own business. In another case we had sections of the job that never got tested properly, I was told we would bury them in paper work and they will never figure it out....lots of shenanigans going on out there...
So this company was as morally bankrupt as it's client.
I would leak all of the reports.
So fucked up. Also the fact that in maritime accidents the shipping companies will sue the families of the victims immediately to catch them off guard and minimize any financial cost to the company. The sinking of the El Faro and ensuing court battle involving Tote Maritime is a somewhat recent example. Although in a rare instance Tote did end up settling because they had been so negligent and there was so much evidence against them. The US maritime laws really favor companies over the individuals working for them.
How strange, the consulting firm hired by and paid by the gas company found them not liable! What a co-inkeedink
Clearly there's no bias from the consulting firm whatsoever, it would be insane to think the gas company is liable
@@sandcat2383 obviously!
“We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"
@@ZiqM4 literally tho 💀
Per the title of the video, the anchor is the murderer here.
We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Sounds very famliar?
Every law enforcement agency everywhere.
Ahhh YES, that old chestnut.
In fact, our CEO found that they went above and beyond during this event, and will be firing 1000 people to free up extra cash to give himself a bonus.
Yeah me too
The more I learn about this oil and gas industry, the more I'm shocked at the evil and corruption that allows it to exist. Glad I got out.
Anything with lots of money available is the same
We gotta have our oil
CT-ue4kg Is so effing right. Anything with billions of dollars on the line is gonna get shadyness
Capitalism. That’s the word you’re looking for. That’s the problem.
Same with Big Pharma.
I worked with one of the survivors of the Seacrest disaster.
The wreck was later scuttled in the Gulf of Thailand. I worked in the area of the wreck during a drilling campaign for Chevron.
Chevron = rockefellers = september 11th
This story is hardly known in Thailand.
To be honest, I am Thai but I have just learned of this tragedy when I started working with someone whose relatives died in this disaster. It has never be told in the schools, even people in seaside towns don’t talk about it or seems to forget or even not aware of this sinking at all.
The crew should be remembered, I find this really sad.
you can thank unocal for that :)
I have been living in Thailand since 1984 & worked offshore in oil gas industry. First time I have heard of this incident.
I’m Thai, I don’t even know about this!
40 years in the patch offshore and land, worked with plenty of former Unocal hands. Remember the Glomar Java Sea. Never heard of this incident, Sad.
So FAAA found that the ship had acceptable stability at the moment it capsized, and that it handled the sea condition just fine until it didn't? How does a report like that not get laughed out of court?
Clearly biased and corrupt.
Never go to court, delay and then settle when the victim’s run out of money for lawyers.
Stockton Rush was moonlighting as safety inspector and quality control investigator.
Because the lawyers have it dismissed as evidence. Report never sees the light of day.
Greed and corruption strike yet again, imagine my shock. Great video btw.
Some corrections. Misinterpreting "the moment they were about to capsize" probably refers to the "righting moment". "Moment" is a unit of torque here, not a moment in time. The righting moment is a function of metacentric height, which provides stability in different sea states. This ship was highly unstable with a very high metacentric height with the overhead weight in the drill tower, along with a variety of other issues with mass distribution at time of upgrade (which was not correctly surveyed for stability). I was actually a subcontractor at Failure Analysis just after this incident which I hadn't heard about at the time. I'm more than a bit chagrined by their conclusion which was slanted heavily in favor of their client. Given the same evidence I would have found UNOCAL at fault (and probably become quickly unemployed as a subcontractor).
I agree.
It never ceases to amaze and horrify me at the staggering level of apathy, greed, and evil that oil companies but especially Chevron have committed throughout the years. I just listened to a story some weeks ago about how Chevron ran drilling expeditions in South America (maybe around 30s-40s but perhaps in the 50s? I can't recall specifically) and they had clear protocol to follow in the Americas to preserve the environment and prevent, or at least greatly decrease, the risks of spills and contamination. They threw out the manual because this was land owned by natives and it was not American land, so they thought they'd never be held accountable if something went wrong. They went so far as to drill and dump crude in the environment with no retention ponds at all, decimating the land and leaving behind a sickening mess that continues to kill the indigenous people even today. They had forgone all safety protocol and raked in billions while also recklessly and haphazardly loosing crude along the way due to their lack of care. There's probably millions if not a billion dollars worth of oil that they just dumped, oil that has sat in the surface water, that has seeped into the ground water, oil that has choked out the vegetative life and led to the deaths of countless animals. The natives tried to sue Chevron, and immediately Chevron moved to have their trial held in South America believing that the government there would never hold them accountable. They actually knew that if their deeds came to public light in America they'd be lambasted as villainous and held to task for their evil. So they go to South America and are found guilty, something that surprised them. They were fined a significant amount of money and were told that they would need to head cleanup efforts until the water and ground was no longer toxic enough to kill the local inhabitants, animal or human. Chevron refused, and went for an appeal. In the end to this day Chevron has not done a single thing to rectify the damage they caused. They continue to turn a blind eye to the thousands of miles of rainforest they destroyed, and the many indigenous people who continue to die of cancer because of their mismanagement. And I'm certain that this is only one of probably hundreds of stories about their evil. Chevron, probably all oil companies, has blood on their hands and they have never been held accountable for the death and destruction they've wrought on the world in pursuit of energy domination and money.
Sounds like Lago Agrio in Ecuador. Season 5 of the podcast Drilled covers it in a lot of detail
Omg that's fucking insane! Those people aren't human.
I didn't know this about Chevron. Thank you for that information
Any mining/extraction industry really, especially in poor third world countries. You don't want to even think about how many safety and environmental regulations are regularly bypassed to save money there.
@@phoenix211245 the fucked thing is they save pennies compared to what they make anyway
Amazing channel. Seriously underrated. I applaud you for such a fact focused narrative retelling of stories like this that should never be forgotten.
Truly an excellent channel. I'm binge watching it now, every video just as professional and succinct as the last.
Thank you for making this. It should not be forgotten. RIP to all.
Not having the proper radios to get local weather seems shady AF right off the bat.
Sounds like something our railroads here in the United States handles derailments , wrecks and fatalities . Add personal injuries to the list also . Anything to keep from having to pay for their mistakes or lack there of . Great video .
You know and all my years of commercial fishing. I thought I dealt with some shitty conditions occasionally. And I did. I can honestly say though that none of the skippers that I fished with or the companies that I fished for ever willingly just sent me out to my death. It sounds like this company knew exactly what was coming and didn't really care if the men died because they're replaceable. But on the off chance that the storm doesn't hit them, they'll make a bunch more money. So there really isn't a downside in the equation if they leave the boat out there. I mean it's covered by insurance after all. What really gets me is that the crew was willing to go to see on a boat with no other way to receive information about the weather then what the company decided to send them. And I'm sure that there are stories that happened while that boat was going down, that made men eligible for an award on par with the medal of honor. We'll just never know though because they're all dead. And I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or agrees with me, but I feel like some of these stories would be even more gripping. If in the background you played the noise that ropes and cables make when the wind is blowing steadily at 50 or 60 knots. It is an unbelievable shriek. And it makes the hair on your body stand up. And it just gets louder and more ominous as the wind picks up.
I worked in the oil industry for thirty five years and for UNOCAL (pronounced You-Know-Cal) for several of those years. I dont recall ever hearing of this incident. This was horrible!
Thank you for the History lesson. You have a great channel. Keep it up. I share your stories a lot. Thanks again. 👍🙋
The way this video mispronounced Unocal over and over, it’s hard to listen to
@@MADmosche yes, it was! 😡🤷
I've never heard it pronounced the way it is in the video. I honestly thought he was talking about a whole different company at first.
@@brianmcintyre1188 Me too. Until I saw the logo I thought it was a different company. It's "you-no-KAL"
Cal in one of the slavic languages means s*h*i*t*.
This should read, 91 people died because of Unocal was criminaly negligent in their responsibilities to the health and safety of all those aboard, focusing on profit over life.
I’ve always been fascinated with anything water and am happy I found your channel. There’s so many water disasters that we don’t hear of. I had heard of tsunamis 🌊 and watched news and read about them but the first time I watched one about a Japanese tsunami I was stunned. Thank you for your videos.
Great research, great graphics, great presentation! Keep it up!
Executives will continue to do this sort of thing until they are looking at extensive jail time, not just a lawsuit. Every time one of these incidents occur at a gas/oil location, higher-ups made the decisions and they never receive any consequences. If you look them up later, they are still working, sometimes at an even higher level in the company.
In Canada we now have the Westray Mining disaster in NB as a marker for executives making decisions KNOWING people will die. But even with that precedent, we have not had ONE executive in decades go to jail even though we have the law on the books for safety.
The Westray Mining disaster happened right after the riots broke out from the Rodney King beating.
I'm looking that disaster up now, thanks.
You can trust the company... they have all of the workers best interests at heart....
Yeah, safety first
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sad story, RIP to all those who lost their lives. I'm pretty sure this could have been avoided but too late now.
Sounds like it wasn’t as much the anchor but Unocal officials who were too greedy to shut it down early enough to save the damn crew. What a terrible loss of life.
Yeah, I was wondering how just that particular anchor killed off 91 guys.
1. The rig is upgraded.
2. "The rig isn't surveyed after the maintenance and upgrades."
3. "...and it doesn't have a stability test..."
4. "The superintendent ignores the severe storm warning..."
What ACTUALLY killed those 91 men was.... that superintendent. Period. The first 3 actions contributed to the loss, but had they heeded the warning... it wold not have been lost THIS time. But it was, and it that unnamed superintendent's decision that killed them.
And by the way, the eye is a good candidate for the *worst* place for a surface vessel to be in a typhoon. In the eyewall, the waves may be huge and breaking but at least they're coming from a consistent direction with a reasonably consistent period. Inside the eye, they converge from all parts of the eyewall, creating a sea state of heaving, confused chaos.
I've talked to a sailor who'd been there and he said it was the most frightening thing he'd ever seen at sea and even worse because it was almost dead calm and sunlit.
If that surface vessel in the eye also has serious stability problems ... the prognosis is not good.
Since the ABS came up (again), would you cover the Marine Electric and the USCG investigation into it led by Dominic Calicchio?
There's a lot that ties into this case, specifically about the ABS and how impartial the Bureau of Shipping really was given there was, as the USCG noted in 1982, a giant conflict of interest because the ABS set rules and guidelines but the ship owners and companies paid into the ABS
I'll have To do some research
Good idea. My teacher's husband was in the same union as the SS Marine Electric & SS Poet guys - told stories about how rusty his ship was; luckily he survived his time at sea. 31 lost on Marine Electric in 1983, 34 lost on SS Poet in 1980. RIP to Capt. Corl, Capt. Warren, and all the rest.
I knew about the Marine Electric and just how absolutely determined MTL were to avoid responsibility, but I know nothing about the Poet though, I've got some digging and reading to do@@neptunenavalmods4420
Great video - reminds me of the Glomar Java Sea and Derrick Barge 29. Another case of drilling companies letting a storm get way too close, and not evacuating people. I would like to see a writeup of the "Java Sea", since I see you have covered DB29 already - this was well done.
Very well reported tragedy, thanks for this, well done. RIP to the crew.
It's amazing how I didn't really care for sea stories before I discovered this channel. You're seriously underrated, mate =)
Check out the story of the Whaling Ship Essex...!!! There is a great book on the subject if you interested, In the Heart of the Sea, but there are also a lot of great videos on the subject here on YT
You did an excellent job making this documentary/video. Keep it up young man. You have a future.
Thanks. Been a while since anyone called me young. I'll take that. 👌🏻
What a disaster!May they all rest in peace!Greed,incompetence and industrial callousness.Poor souls.Great documentary.Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you for talking about this topic, my grandfather was one of the victims.
I'm not quite sure what part the anchor played as the ship capsized apparently on account of it being top-heavy...
Scapegoat, apparently 🤔
Kent Nolan gets all my due respect and appreciation for his efforts to save some of the crew, may God bless and be with him and all those who lost their lives along with all their respective families, friends and loved ones.
Another fantastic video from my favorite site 😉👍😉👍 I would hope that regulations have tightened up alot since 1995 and everyone has learned from ALL your accidents!!
Thanks Beverly. Yes you hope so but I think accidents still happen
@@waterlinestories Yup just like an accident is and accident. Like when I broke my ankle last weekend. An accident!!!
@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205 ouch. How did you manage that?
@@waterlinestories I caught my toes in the pantry door dislocating my ankle and fractured some bones two weeks after I was airlifted to the hospital for blood clots in my lungs. Boy I can't catch a break 😂😉😂😉
Have you considered covering the MS Estonia? Great vids, all very informative
I have it on the list. It's a long list and it's not yet shortlisted
There are only 10,000 other videos about MS Estonia already. Why not do a video about incidents everybody hasn't already covered?
It seems there are still viewers that aren't used to click bait differing from content. Great content by the way.
Never heard about this one but I’m angry that it seems forgotten
It's forgotten because there are so many such crimes in the oil and gas industry.
Union Oil of California. Worked with them on and off for seventeen years and never heard it pronounced "You No Kul". Here we pronounce it "You No Cal" or "You Nuh Cal"
YOU no cal is how it's been pronounced in the industry LOL. yoo NOcle is a new one.
another great video, I really appreciate your content.
👌🏻 thanks
Im so glad your channel popped up in my feed.
I was drilling in Indonesia when this happened, I knew many of the Seacrest crew.
Long time ago I applied to work on an offshore oil rig, after an introduction and walk about, I withdrew my application and never looked back.
Excellent and skilled presentation
Very few presenters have such presentation skills
with the correct cadence,
Presenting - Talking and Speaking are three different things
that not many RUclipsrs undersand
Thanks, I really appreciate that
Well done on getting the terminology correct with regards to the drilling equipment
🤣 thanks. I always worry when it comes to equipment I'm not familiar with.
Except they mispronounced Unocal every single time 👎
Sounds like negligent manslaughter on the part of the corporate office to me, just on the grounds of not providing the proper weather report and telling them to ride it out.
“The region had been taken over by the Taliban, but that was not a hindrance to the oil industry” says all you need to know about the oil industry
04:20 so it wasn't the anchor that killed them, it was just classic management greed
Typical oil company greed
About the anchor cables, was it 15mm/1.5 cm, really?. or was it 15cm. The latter sounds more likely.
New sub here. Learning much from you and your wonderful commenting community.
So, the anchor is irrelevant. The actual killer of the 91 men was the Superintendent and Captain.
Never trust a company that pays millions in bonuses!
The risk is that the leaders may be tempted to go to extremes to have the bonus paid out. This can lead to deaths.
Good video.
Did I miss how the anchor killed 91 people?
Great vid as always!
What about covering the Zeebrugge ferry tragedy? Would be interesting to see your take on it.
Thanks. I'll put it on the list
The Witch of November must be a world traveler.
Bugger, mate! You know CAL is the right pronunciation. I'm American! Unocal 76! Great truck stop chain, too.
As a child, i remember listening to the adults arguing and worrying about running out of gas and oil. Now as an adult, 30 - 35 years later, I really truly wish we had.
That thick black demonic blood, drawn from deep within the earth's crust, really seems to lead to a great deal of death and destruction on a global scale.
Also to a lot of savety as oil gives us the ability to build better structures, bridges, defense from sea, higher food supply, deaths from climate have gone down like 70% is the last 100 years. We would be nowhere without it.
What’s wrong with you, indy? Without oil, THERE ARE PRESENTLY NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVES.
Exactly... And the billions of litres of oil that have been removed in the last 100 plus years, from USA, UAE and Europe, will lead to subsidence... Imagine the voids that leaves? We truly are the most destructive creatures... 😢😢
@@C-Here You’re worried about THAT? Sorry pal, but we’ve got far bigger problems the minute supply outstrips demand! And we appear to be just about at the turning point.....
@@martyzielinski1442
You worry about that, I'll worry when continents collapse and we'll be back in the stone age..!!
I can't imagine the feeling of when not 1 but multiple 1 inch steel cables snap. Not only because the cables themselves are strong but because the anchors are not fixed. With a high enough load the anchors should just drag, but I they're snapping it means the shock loading on the cables is so great there's no time for the anchor to drag which is just an unthinkable amount of force.
They would fail at a lower force from shock loading, than from a steady pull.
Blatant corruption from start to finish. They got off way easier than they should have. These companies need severe punishments, monetary and criminal that will highly incentivise lives over money.
Another riveting watch - thanks! Sadly, I can't imagine you will run out of material to talk about in your excellent videos - humans mostly do an good job on and in the sea, but they don't "belong" there so when it goes wrong it is usually catastrophic.
I remember arriving alone in Bangkok in 1995 and I just thought wow what a city I fell in love with Thailand 🇹🇭 it’s a beautiful country..I hope to travel again soon but will probably give loas and Cambodia a visit next time…❤
Why did you say " Thailand 🇹🇭"?
If the drive system and a drill rod being in their uppermost position in the derrick significantly decreases stability is there a reason not to lower the equipment to its bottom position so the drill rod protrudes downwards through the bottom of the ship? Just asking, I don't know anything about oil drilling.
Because using the drill for support would likely break off the drill entirely possibly initiating a major oil leak.
The drill ships have much technology to remain perfectly stationary despite the waves and currents.
If too much waves or currents the ship would begin flexing the drill. Until it breaks off. ..
@@fastinradfordable Ok, I thought the ship was already detached from the rest of the drill at that point. As said, I know nothing about oil drilling.
I'm a 43 year retired merchant mariner. My observation is that obvious safety issues go ignored until people are injured or killed and the insurance companies are forced to pay out big claims. No foresight whatever. Case in point, none other than the Titanic. White Star Lines cut the number of lifeboats in half just for the sake of looks. Afterwards the rules were much stricter for lifeboat requirements.
I love your content..!!
I’ve been neaning to ask you, are you south african..?
In some of your video’s you said the south african names and surnames with such ease..
Yes I am. I live in Germany now.
1987 it was actually drilling in the Java Sea, the Santan Oilfield in East Kalimantan (Borneo) to be precise. I know for sure. Just checked my log book. I was one of the divers. I made several dives to the sea floor checking the gas bubbles seeping out around the casing. If too much of the expanding gas escape it will push away the water under the ship and cause it to be unstable or in worst scenario sink. That happened to a jack-up rig in outside Java.
I was working offshore in South East Asia for almost 10yrs. Too many stories too be told here.
Thanks for another great installment, Mate. As technical, gripping and informative as always. - This one though, left me with the same conclusion as so many of us: These oil companies are just beyond evil. I'll be checking out the book mentioned: Economic Hitman, because this is a subject that has always interested me. The entire oil industry is like, ran by Sauron, I swear. Wouldn't be surprised if they got a literal Orc army going at this point; Where they forge hellish orcs out of the pits of crude oil, to eventually go forth and conquer the surface, turning it into a veritable wasteland of refineries, scorched earth and soil wrought with waste and heavy metals...
...Anyways, my imagination gets going quick. What I want to also mention, that I find equally as oppressive as the crude oil industry, is the other, sub-industries, that are associated with the entire oil industry. Families like the DuPont family, successfully lobbied against the usage of organic plastic compounds- leaving us with a worse product, that is absolutely horrible for the earth (and with the finding of micro-plastics in every human's blood on earth now, us too) and of course, makes them More money. Hemp-based fiber is stronger than synthetic and hemp-based plastics are apparently stronger too. Not to mention, there are thousands of other methods too, for fuel and literally everything we use crude oil for. But this is the new iteration of your Mongol Overlord. They do not ride in the wind on the highlands with their endless expanse of armies. They fight in suits, in towers, directing their masses to carry out their plans of conquest from the comfort of a desk, and a cocktail in hand. But the end goal is surely the same as even Genghis: Money, Power, Women. Control.
cool stories and well narrated mate
Any chance of you covering the Ron Tappmeyer Jackup accident?
Love how the guy they hired to bullshit away the blame did the super villain hand steeple.
As soon as you said top drive I wondered why anyone would consider a high centre of gravity as an upgrade
With the additional ballast tanks added, it was deemed safe. Those waves, swells and rolling were not factored. I dare say, in normal sea conditions for that area, the additional ballast tanks would have been sufficient.
Enjoying your content Waterline Stories...
Thanks. Welcome aboard
The anchor did not kill 91 people.
Greed killed 91 people.
"...we recommend that any lawsuits would be unfounded - further, we recommend record bonuses for the executives this year
unfortunately, there is not sufficient operating income to compensate the families of yhose lost st sea."
When I was in the Navy,during hurricanes we were sent to sea as a maneuverable ship stands a much better chance of surviving than a ship moored or anchored
When I was in the Navy,during hurricanes we were sent to sea as a maneuverable ship stands a much better chance of surviving than a ship moored or anchored.
The call to stay anchored doomed this crew.
It's so sad that greed and cover ups will never see justice of what really happened.I have so many friends that do this job and I am always worried about them. Even the chopper ride to the rig is very dangerous.R.I.P. to all the souls lost. Very sad.🙏
Terrible scary death
Ship capsize
I’ve been at sea working on ships for 32 years
Worst nightmare
Hope the lads didn’t suffer!
Its such a joke how these companies that are truly responsible but use different types of tactics just to get out of accountability. Some one should just take justice into there own hands.
Good documentation of a needless tragedy brought on by corporate greed. Only issue was that at 14:46 when talking about the settlement reached in Houston, you show a picture of the UNOCAL Building in Anchorage, Alaska. (It now belongs to NANA, an Alaska native association.)
Seems like it's not so much the anchor as the on site supervisor and executives who were more concerned with profits than vessel or crew safety.
Your telling me the investigating company found in favor of the ones who hired them? I'm shocked. 😮😮
I know right.
FYI it's "You-na-cal" They had a big footprint in Alaska as well.
When they say "worse things happen at sea".....they aren't kidding!
Money and the greedy people who want more, no matter how much they already have, is responsible for this tragedy, and money is also responsible for the travesty of an enquiry afterwards. People don't matter, they can always be replaced. Profit is the only thing that matters to the bean counters working far away in the comfort of their air-conditioned offices. Welcome to the world of multi-national corporations.
Hard to believe a ship would not have the the best weather instruments.
I don't know if this is possible, but why is there not a waterproof room on the deck that the workers can get into if a cap sizes and they'll be safe underneath the water till help comes. Have an escape hatch so they can be let out, is that not an option?
this is an emblematic instance when a ships captain is not really the captain and has to rely on decisions coming from a corporate office office far removed from the reality of the situation. had the skipper been allowed to do what needed to be done we wouldn't be monday morning quarterbacking on this subject.
I work on a drill ship in the Gulf of Mexico. We take hurricanes seriously now.
So how did the anchor kill them... Come on man
Unocal is the short version of Union Oil Company of California. The last three letters of Unocal are pronounced like the first three letters of California.
It is [you-know-cal], not [you-know-cul].
The anchor wires, how thick were they? 15mm or 15 cm? I think it's 15 cm
No company will ever put the safety of their workers above profits.
It’s all about money. These companies don’t care about personnel, lives, and families.
I did not know a ship this large would use anchor cable rather then an anchor chain.
"Has'nt been a typhoon for 50 years" should have been taken as a warning, ie long overdue for one, not interpreted as "typhoons no longer occur in this area". Would say decision to stay on site dictated by money, not crew safety, and by upper management who have accountacy and " business administration" backgrounds, not marine engineering. I worked in the offsore oil industry for 30 years from 1975, noticeable that from early 80's that engineering based management replaced by "bean counters".
That was wrong there has
The cable on a 14 ton anchor is 15mm thick? .600"? less than 5/8"? Sounds flimsy! 2:40
Profits over people - the story never seems to change :(
They always forget that in order for it be safe to continue drilling 99 times out of 100 their has to be that 1 time when bad stuff happens.