The 1988 Piper Alpha Explosion (Episode 70)

Come join us for the day the ocean caught fire. A simple, tiny mistake meant death for over a hundred and sixty people when the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea of Scotland became engulfed in flames. We'll talk about the events of the day, how the safety protocols failed, and how the chain of events likely unfolded.

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Sources:

Piper Alpha: The Disaster in Detail by Fiona Macleod et al.

Piper Alpha: The world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster

Piper Alpha - a timeline of the world's worst offshore disaster by Thomas Durham

July 6, 1988: The Piper Alpha Disaster

The 1988 Piper Alpha explosion