Fire.in.the.Night.The.Piper.Alpha.Disaster.2013.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD.2.0.H.264-QOQ Movie Subtitles

00:00:00,063 --> 00:00:04,(ticking)

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00:01:19,988 --> 00:01:21,- Every now and again when I'm driving

00:01:21,761 --> 00:01:24,over that way for family,

00:01:25,939 --> 00:01:28,those are people 'cause
they own the roses out.

00:01:28,479 --> 00:01:31,This is a beautiful place
when all the roses are out.

00:01:34,415 --> 00:01:39,I just walk around outside,
try to put faces to them and

00:01:39,075 --> 00:01:41,kinda know some of the names there,

00:01:43,243 --> 00:01:45,and just sit and talk like.

00:01:48,953 --> 00:01:50,Piper'll never go away.

00:01:52,951 --> 00:01:54,They'll be there forever.

00:02:05,472 --> 00:02:07,- Me granddaughter, she done an article

00:02:07,707 --> 00:02:09,at school on the Piper Alpha.

00:02:10,422 --> 00:02:12,Says, "Can you tell us
a little bit about it."

00:02:13,234 --> 00:02:15,"Ah," I says, "there's
not much to tell ya."

00:02:17,474 --> 00:02:19,"Did you jump from the rig?"

00:02:20,346 --> 00:02:21,I says, "Oh yeah."

00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,"Was it high?"

00:02:25,237 --> 00:02:26,I says, "Oh, it was high."

00:02:28,124 --> 00:02:29,She says, "How high?"

00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:30,"Oh," I says, "it was high."

00:02:46,494 --> 00:02:50,(ocean waves crashing)

00:02:50,770 --> 00:02:53,- Drove past
when the (mumbling)--

00:02:53,291 --> 00:02:55,- When the black
water comes from the depths

00:02:55,345 --> 00:02:57,of the Northern Ocean,
then will be the beginning

00:02:57,505 --> 00:03:00,of our tribulations.

00:03:00,024 --> 00:03:03,(ship creaking)
(ocean waves crashing)

00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:17,For as long as man has
lived on the borders

00:03:17,824 --> 00:03:21,of the North Sea, he has
intermingled his respect for it

00:03:21,035 --> 00:03:23,with fear and hatred.

00:03:23,008 --> 00:03:25,(ocean waves crashing)

00:03:25,467 --> 00:03:28,Is it too fanciful to imagine
that the small sea towns

00:03:28,657 --> 00:03:31,which border this coast,
cower from the sea,

00:03:31,714 --> 00:03:33,perhaps as if in race memory

00:03:33,453 --> 00:03:36,of the invaders who came
across these narrow seas,

00:03:36,016 --> 00:03:37,the Vikings.

00:03:38,934 --> 00:03:40,Or is it, perhaps, an awareness,

00:03:40,543 --> 00:03:44,that the North Sea gives up
its treasure unwillingly?

00:03:44,119 --> 00:03:46,But the men who have fished
it for generations know that,

00:03:46,443 --> 00:03:49,for them, the North Sea is a widow maker.

00:03:49,929 --> 00:03:53,(ocean waves crashing)
(wind whistling)

00:03:54,270 --> 00:03:58,(slow-paced orchestra music)
(choir singing)

00:04:17,514 --> 00:04:18,- Nothing remotely like them

00:04:18,940 --> 00:04:20,had ever been built before.

00:04:20,716 --> 00:04:23,From the sea bed to the
top of the drilling derrick

00:04:23,038 --> 00:04:25,would be 690 feet.

00:04:25,278 --> 00:04:28,The steel had to be
protected inside and out

00:04:28,369 --> 00:04:32,by a combination of plastic
coatings and electrolysis.

00:04:32,093 --> 00:04:35,Not something you can do
in any old totter's yard.

00:04:35,445 --> 00:04:38,(slow-paced orchestral music)
(choir singing)

00:04:40,801 --> 00:04:43,- This is one of the most exciting things

00:04:43,618 --> 00:04:46,that's happened to Europe for centuries.

00:04:46,660 --> 00:04:49,(slow-paced orchestral music)
(choir singing)

00:04:56,154 --> 00:04:57,- And somehow these cumbersome

00:04:57,552 --> 00:04:59,steel contraptions had to be set afloat

00:04:59,955 --> 00:05:03,and towed 110 miles offshore,
and to be set upright

00:05:03,957 --> 00:05:06,and pinned on the ocean bed.

00:05:06,899 --> 00:05:10,On launching day, nobody could
guess what might happen next.

00:05:10,149 --> 00:05:11,(loud explosion)

00:05:11,155 --> 00:05:14,It was as much religion as engineering.

00:05:14,965 --> 00:05:18,(slow-paced orchestral music)

00:05:21,474 --> 00:05:24,(choir singing)

00:05:55,509 --> 00:05:59,The structures were designed
to withstand waves of 94 feet

00:05:59,310 --> 00:06:01,and winds of 130 miles an hour.

00:06:01,933 --> 00:06:04,In the splash areas the impact of a wave,

00:06:04,395 --> 00:06:06,could be several thousand tons

00:06:06,194 --> 00:06:09,striking both sideways and
downwards at the same time.

00:06:10,824 --> 00:06:12,Floating cranes had to be designed

00:06:12,928 --> 00:06:15,to lift into position
units that were heavier

00:06:15,562 --> 00:06:17,and more cumbersome than anything that had

00:06:17,338 --> 00:06:19,ever been lifted before at sea.

00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,Nobody knew all the answers,

00:06:21,598 --> 00:06:23,nobody could hope to think of everything.

00:06:23,816 --> 00:06:26,You could only do your
sums and say your prayers.

00:06:28,657 --> 00:06:30,It wasn't expected though
they'd ever turn out

00:06:30,747 --> 00:06:32,quite like this.

00:06:32,327 --> 00:06:34,Machinery has bred machinery,

00:06:34,346 --> 00:06:38,platforms have grown up and
out like junkyards on stilts.

00:06:47,478 --> 00:06:49,- Piper, one
of the largest fields

00:06:49,905 --> 00:06:52,in the North Sea, holds the
current world production record

00:06:52,923 --> 00:06:54,for a single platform.

00:06:54,757 --> 00:06:57,At the moment, more than a
quarter of UK production.

00:06:57,764 --> 00:07:00,(ticking)

00:07:14,887 --> 00:07:16,- A vision of hell I thought it was.

00:07:16,629 --> 00:07:18,The first thing I thought,
"God, how can anybody

00:07:18,370 --> 00:07:20,"work on one of these things?"

00:07:21,735 --> 00:07:25,Your ship seemed to be quite
comfortable in comparison.

00:07:25,196 --> 00:07:26,Ya know, when you see these guys,

00:07:26,601 --> 00:07:29,these ants walking
around in their hard hats

00:07:29,305 --> 00:07:32,and their overalls, I have
nothing but admiration for them.

00:07:33,405 --> 00:07:35,You know, if that rig
decides to upset you,

00:07:35,624 --> 00:07:37,there's only going to be one winner.

00:07:37,934 --> 00:07:40,He's goin' against the
man, 2,000 tons of heck,

00:07:40,472 --> 00:07:42,he's gonna win all the time.

00:07:42,167 --> 00:07:45,(machinery clanking)

00:07:54,623 --> 00:07:58,(bass-heavy music)
(machinery clanking)

00:08:13,852 --> 00:08:15,- Everything was hunky dory then.

00:08:15,607 --> 00:08:18,(laughs) It was good.

00:08:19,409 --> 00:08:21,Was some cracking times...

00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,before that night.

00:08:24,558 --> 00:08:28,(even-paced music)

00:08:31,814 --> 00:08:33,- It was work.

00:08:33,196 --> 00:08:35,I didn't go to work there thinkin' we were

00:08:35,261 --> 00:08:37,particularly unsafe.

00:08:40,111 --> 00:08:42,It was a different environment,
but it's an evironment

00:08:42,676 --> 00:08:44,you soon g***t used to because a lot of it

00:08:44,951 --> 00:08:48,was just similar to working on shore.

00:08:48,005 --> 00:08:51,Except, obviously the getting
in there and the getting home.

00:08:51,002 --> 00:08:54,(even-paced music)
(helicopter flying)

00:08:58,241 --> 00:09:00,- It was 112 miles, so just about an hour,

00:09:00,881 --> 00:09:02,50 minutes to an hour, depending on

00:09:02,286 --> 00:09:03,the weather conditions.

00:09:04,506 --> 00:09:06,You just sat there and either
fell asleep or read a book

00:09:06,681 --> 00:09:08,until you g***t out to the platform.

00:09:08,305 --> 00:09:11,(helicopter flying)

00:09:17,379 --> 00:09:19,- Oh, it was all a new experience then.

00:09:20,222 --> 00:09:23,I have seen people fly out, step off,

00:09:23,995 --> 00:09:27,and say, "I'm not, no I can't do this."

00:09:27,945 --> 00:09:29,I've seen that happen, yeah.

00:09:29,914 --> 00:09:33,(helicopter flying)

00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,- I always thought, if there was

00:09:34,764 --> 00:09:36,ever going to be an accident,

00:09:36,097 --> 00:09:37,it would be the transfer there and back

00:09:37,795 --> 00:09:38,in helicopter.

00:09:39,910 --> 00:09:41,But you do think about it.

00:09:41,254 --> 00:09:42,If anything ever happened,
you think once you get on the

00:09:42,996 --> 00:09:45,platform, you're safe for the fortnight.

00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:47,Which, obviously I g***t
that wrong as well, so.

00:09:47,531 --> 00:09:49,Me ju-ju is not appealing, is it?

00:09:49,931 --> 00:09:52,(waves crashing)

00:09:54,467 --> 00:09:58,(ticking)
(ominous orchestral music)

00:09:58,707 --> 00:10:02,(muffled speech)

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