On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:05:29 -0800, PeggLeg <reply@here.net> wrote:
>Here I go again: I don't think there was ever a documentary made about
>it, but if you Google "Sansinena explosion" you should get some info. I
>was surprised to find out that she was of Liberian registry. I somehow
>got the idea she was ours. Guess not. It was sometime in 1976. A few
>years after the explosion, Union Oil got the Sansinena II, a much
>larger tanker that West Coast Shipping ran for them as a "crude
>carrier". That just means that she only carried crude oil. Mostly, I
>hear, from a platform just off of the Kenai Peninsula called "Drift
>River". Actually, the platforms real name was "Christy Lee", and Drift
>River was a small spot of light barely visible from the platform on the
>land a mile or so away. The last tanker I was on went there a few
>times, but she was a product carrier and not big enough for the crude
>trade. Damn near froze my toes of trying to tie up at that bloody
>platform one time! And the ice floes getting in and out...never liked
>that place much. Loved Alaska, though! God it IS beautiful! If you ever
>get a chance to see Ketchikan, GO. It will probably rain on you, but it
>will be worth it. Green and pure. There is an island in the center of
>the inlet where Ketchikan is that, according to one of the Chief Mates,
>just got the telephone in the 1990s! Love it! You could look out there
>and tell where there were oil lamps burning.
>I'll stop. My I do get carried away...
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'Sansinena Explosion' led me to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sansinena
Which led me to...
The explosion of Sansinena and technical details of the incident were
featured as the first segment of the Engineering Disasters of the 70's
episode of History Channel's Modern Marvels television series.
Which led me to... a torrent site.
I'm going to post it here just in case you want to check it out.
Will get back to you about the rest of your post... I need to get this
ready and posting then watch it, then get to sleep (UK time).
Catch you later.
:)
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