Event: Ocean Ranger Sinking, Hibernia Oil Fields, off NewfoundlandDate: 15 February 1982Summary: A captain who had only been on board for eight days made an error trying to correct a list on the vessel on 6 February 1982. When the alarm sounded, the crew were slow to react, having been through two false alarms in
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Event: Union Carbide Chemical Disaster, Bhopal, India Date: 3 December 1984 Summary: Methyl isocyanate leaked out of the plant and into the camp and town nearby. Some reports said the accident was caused by sabotage, and others suggested that workers had gone on a long tea break after hearing multiple and confusing alarms. The American CEO was arrested
Event: Hurricane HazelDate: 12-16 October 1954Summary: The hurricane had taken 500 lives as it crossed Haiti and the eastern US. But Toronto’s weather forecast for the 15th and 16th said the storm had weakened and would only bring light rain. Although most people in Ontario associated hurricanes with the tropics, there had been 25 tropical
Event: Siege of Iranian Embassy, LondonDate: 30 April 1980Summary: Six armed men stormed the embassy, taking 29 hostages and making various demands on the new Khomeini government. Police responded to an alarm, they knocked on the door and the head terrorist told them to go away. Crowds of Iranians arrived and began chanting support for
Date: 1 June 1974 Summary: Chemical engineers predominated in a facility that occasionally needed mechanical-engineering expertise. Some repairs had been made, including using ‘dog-leg’ pipe and substituting pipe with a smaller diameter, which had caused increased pressure. The manufacturing-process included heating gasoline. A vapour cloud ignited, causing an explosion—one of the largest petrochemical-plant explosions in
Event: Volcanic Eruption, Krakatoa, Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java Date: 27 August 1883 Summary Thought to be extinct, the volcano on the island of Krakatoa erupted with such force that it caused a 120-foot tidal wave. Five cubic miles of rocks flew 17 miles in the air. The shockwaves circled the earth seven times.
Event: 9/11, World Trade Center, New York City Date: 11 September 2001 Summary The terrorist group al-Qaeda coordinated suicide attacks on the US. They hijacked four airplanes, crashing two into the World Trade Center Towers, another into the Pentagon and a fourth (probably destined for the White House or the Capitol) near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Some
Date: 23-30 August, 2005 Summary: The storm began over the Bahamas, strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico, then weakened before hitting land for the second time on the morning of August 29. The worst damage in New Orleans occurred when the levee system failed, with many failures after the hurricane had moved inland. Eighty per
Years ago somebody got the bright idea of testing customer service in retail stores—the mystery shopper was born. These undercover sleuths pretended to need goods or services and reported back on how they were treated. I’ve been a volunteer mystery shopper during this lockdown in both the public and the private sector. I fear you