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  • [30] years later, Ocean Ranger tragedy deeply felt

    02/16/2012 7:55:40 PM PST · by Ocean Ranger · 3 replies
    CBC News ^ | Feb. 15, 2007 | CBC News
    [Thirty] years after a vicious winter storm ripped across the Atlantic Ocean and helped sink the world's largest and most advanced oil rig, memories of the Ocean Ranger tragedy are still painful and fresh. All 84 crew members died when the Ocean Ranger toppled and then sank on the Grand Banks in the early hours of Feb. 15, 1982. "It's still — the way it happened, there's no closure. It doesn't feel like there's any," said Connie Foley, who was 19 when her father Ron and his colleagues died at sea...
  • 30 Years Ago: 84 FEARED DEAD AS OIL-DRILLING RIG REPORTEDLY SINKS IN NORTH ATLANTIC

    02/16/2012 7:48:16 PM PST · by Ocean Ranger · 6 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Feb 16, 1982 | The Associated Press
    A huge oil-drilling rig reportedly sank in a storm off the coast of Newfoundland Monday morning, and all 84 men aboard were said to be missing in 50-foot seas and feared dead... (Page A8.)