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COI synopsis: A blow-out on an offshore oil rig, and the crew have to evacuate extremely rapidly. A life-raft lowered directly into the sea could quite possibly get tangled up in the legs of the rig. Using...
In July 1988, 167 men were killed in the world’s worst oil industry disaster to date. Using interviews with eyewitnesses who were aboard the ‘Piper Alpha’ oil rig, questions the standards of design and...
Shows the hazards involved when fire breaks out at an oil well, and the measures taken to extinguish the fire. Shot in 1951 when fire broke out at a well in Persia.
NFA Summary - Tractors and earth moving equipment used in Iraq BP synopsis: Before the tractor, the only form of transport was the camel. Now, the tractor with tracks is the new mode of transport. We see a...
Filmmaker Spike Lee returns to New Orleans, the scene of his post-Katrina documentary WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS (2006). On this occasion, he focuses mainly on the BP disaster, from the...
An autobiographical study of 25 years of the life of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with...
Documents the construction and placement of a steel oil platform designed to be permanently fixed on the sea floor up to 80 kilometres off the Victorian coast in the Bass Strait. The design had to last up to...
Uses film of an oil pumping rig (a nodding donkey) and a JCB digger to demonstrate the motions of a linkage mechanism. Then uses two domestic mops to represent the four-bar linkage and slider-crank basic...
Divers describe their experience of, and their attitudes to, the various developments in the use of diving equipment and how it has progressed form the early snorkel to today’s deep-water apparatus....
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