February 14, 1982 – The world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, the Ocean Ranger, stands in the path ... This is the haunting true story of a disaster that shook the offshore oil industry ...

U.S. oil rig Ocean Ranger keeled over in the North Atlantic, killing 84 people. February 1984: One man was killed and two injured in an oil rig explosion off Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.

April 20, 2010, 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, an explosion on an oil rig would change life along the Gulf of America as we knew it.  Leased by BP, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was ...

during and following the Ocean Ranger disaster. Have the students do some background research about oil rigs: how they work in the sea, what mechanisms keep them upright, and the reasons and costs ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off ... of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation's worst offshore oil spill are still being ...