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In 1982, the Ocean Ranger was a technological marvel and the Titanic of semisubmersible oil rigs.
In the early hours of February 15, while undertaking exploratory drilling on behalf of Mobil Oil Canada three hundred nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, it was struck by a massive rogue wave inducing a severe list from which it could not recover. All 84 crewmen, including 56 Newfoundlanders, were lost.
The disaster, Canada's largest marine tragedy since the Second World War, left that small island province and its capital city of St. John's devastated.
The Ocean Ranger and the offshore oil industry were seen as the economic salvation for a province reeling in debt and unemployment. When it sank it took with it the hopes and dreams of a generation.
The hurt still runs deep even after twenty-seven years.
Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster, a collection of thirty-five personal monologues and twenty previously unpublished photographs, describes that most longest of weeks by mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, former rig workers and emergency responders.
It is an emotional journey through sadness and the search to overcome and find meaning in tragedy.
