The Ocean Ranger disaster remains one of the most significant tragedies in the history of the offshore oil industry. Once hailed as the world’s largest semisubmersible oil rig and considered nearly ...

On February 14, 1982, a fierce North Atlantic storm collided with the Ocean Ranger—then the largest semi-submersible oil rig in the world. Considered “unsinkable,” the rig went down with all 84 crew ...