The Ocean Ranger

They soon discovered the submarines bow planes were buried; the bow tanks full of sand. The propellers were torn off, steering gear ruined, stern tanks flooded, and all the hatches were desperately jammed.

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The explosion ripped through a port side berthing compartment of the construction and repair gangs, killing and wounding many of the men while they slept. The repair crews fought hard and were able to save the ship, despite suffering heavy casualties in the explosion.

By the time we replaced the second part we suspected, powered the equipment back on, and tested its functionality, we were fully operational and still had one hour to spare before launch. Both the technician and I received medals for our performance under such high pressure. When we returned from the Persian Gulf, I sat down with a number of highly ranked officers from the ship and we discussed ways that this could have been avoided in the future. One of the most obvious was to have physical redundancy. The expense would still be very high but it would eliminate this happening again. As we discussed other options, I

Recovering artifacts from the shipwreck, people are fascinated about exploring old things that were lost or destroyed in the past. For that, scientists were searching shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico, they have discovered two sunken ships that went down during a storm in the 1800s. The ships they found were in deep underwater, about 4,363 feet down, which makes the ships the deepest Gulf or North American shipwrecks that have ever been studied. In 2011, a crew from the Shell Oil company found a shipwreck and asked the scientists and leaders in the U.S. to come and studied it. People want to know if how do they research the ships was an underwater robot to take a look at it. Just to make sure that nothing happens to it, they armed six

Luckily for the crew of the vessel was able to make it out alive and actually report their encounter with a 100 foot wave. This trip led to finding the largest wave ever scientifically recorded in the open ocean. The next account comes from a very reliable source, Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton rode on a ship called Endurance; it was on this ship that Shackleton would venture to Antarctica where he would come across a wave so large he thought he was looking at the sky. He was lucky to have made it out alive from this storm. Casey next talks about the 850-foot cargo ship München, this ship was built to be unsinkable it was the German Merchant Navy’s state of the art flagship. To everyone’s surprise an S.O.S. message was received that the ship had suffered great damage from a wave. Even with 110 ships and 13 aircrafts looking for it, it was never found. In 1933, a naval officer aboard the USS Ramapo saw a huge wave in the Pacific and made some trigonometric calculations that estimated the wave to be about 112 feet high. On January 1, 1995 Statoil’s Draupner oil-drilling platform were being hit by large waves 38 feet tall, then a huge 85 foot wave hit the rig causing moderate damage to the platform. This was the first confirmed measurement of a rogue wave. In 1982 the Ocean Ranger was struck by a wave which destroyed the rig and left no survivors. The rig was built to withstand 110-foot seas and 115-mile per hour winds, it was deemed indestructible. The wave that hit it took it as a challenge and sank the whole rig instantly killing 84 people who were onboard. On March, 1973 two bulk carriers were lost within one hour of each other in the same span of the North

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At this point, there was enough oxygen in the second system to get the astronauts home safely, but Lovell, one of the astronauts, noticed that the psi (pounds per square inch) level on the pressure gauge for the second system was falling as well. It should normally register at 860, now it was only a 300, only 53 minutes after the initial explosion. At this pace, the spacecraft would expend all of its oxygen and electricity between midnight and 3 AM. This was not giving the Control Center a lot of time.

Emergency equipment included bilge pumps, alarms for fire and bilge levels, three life rafts, fifty five immersion suits, and EPIRB. The Ranger was a twin screw ship with two 3,500 HP motors with 2 spade type rudders behind 2 variable-pitch props. To sum it up the Alaska Ranger was a standard fishing vessel that had been sailing since 1973. The ship met all the minimum Coast Guard required regulations in terms of safety and equipment but was not completely watertight which would be the ships undoing.

The Ocean Ranger was an offshore exploration oil drilling platform that sank in Canadian waters 315 kilometres southeast from St. John's Newfoundland, on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on February 15, 1982, with 84 crewmembers onboard. The Ocean Ranger was the largest semi-submersible, offshore exploration, oil drilling platform of the day. Built in 1976 by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, it operated off the coasts of Alaska, New Jersey, Ireland, and in November 1980 moved to the Grand Banks. Since it was so big it was considered to have the ability to drill in areas too dangerous for other rigs. The government thought it was unsinkable, so they felt that there was no need to train a crew very well.

Deepwater Horizon was an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that exploded, leaving eleven dead and seventeen injured. The eleven people’s bodies were never found. These eleven people were platform workers. Imagine that.

Out of no where the water parted together again, making the ship start to sink because of the terrible gash under deck. The remaining crew did nothing to prevent sinking, because they were scared that they would be taken off by the rushing waters. After 5 minutes the Ivanho was submerged under water. But as soon as the water got to the bottom of the lanterns, each lantern came back to life with a flame that remained as the ship sank to the bottom.

"With continued treatment, including flushing the system with chlorine and rinsing it, as well as injecting sodium hydrochloride for safety, three of the four wells should be able to come back online

From an engineering perspective BP, Transocean, and Halliburton adequately analyzed the potential overall impact of many risk factors that were present. Faulty cement work failed to protect and seal off the well. A weakened mixture of mud and seawater decreased the amount of pressure needed to hold the gas back. Lastly a blowout preventer failed to completely shear the drill pipe. According to Mohamed Yunus (n.d.), this is the lethal mechanical combination that caused

The oil and gas industry should embark on an important next generation series of high tech-hazard exploration systems. It should be done in the deep and ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The researchers and engineers at onboard relied on the information collected from small-scale operations, which were mainly conducted in the shallow waters. As a result, they had little information, and they underestimated the magnitude of the disaster. This step is essential because it would have saved the Deepwater horizon. The assessment should not only be done by BP, but also be a regulation to all drilling companies, in order to prevent similar disasters in the future.