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Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - Support vessel Tharos - North Sea - 1988

Accidents & Disasters - Explosion/Fire - Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - Support vessel Tharos - North Sea - 1988 Stock Photo

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4096 x 3196 px | 34.7 x 27.1 cm | 13.7 x 10.7 inches | 300dpi

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7 July 1988

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The support vessel Tharos, which rescued a number of oil workers after the explosion disaster on the North Sea oil production platform Piper Alpha. A team of four specially-trained doctors was flown out to join those attending the injured on the Tharos.

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RMGAT22D–Mr John Brading, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd, referring to a diagram of the Piper-type of oil platform at a press conference in Aberdeen today on the disaster which overtook Occidental's Piper Alpha production platform in the North Sea.