This Anchor Killed 91 Men

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I worked for a company that did forensic analysis of accidents for insurance companies. Whenever our results didn’t match what they wanted, they wouldn’t accept the reports. If they accepted the reports they would have to share them during discovery. We still got paid but they didn’t accept the reports so they were never published. There are many “unsolved “ accidents and plane crashes we actually solved in only a few days. The reports on what happened will never see the light of day until all the relatives are dead and can’t sue.

How strange, the consulting firm hired by and paid by the gas company found them not liable! What a co-inkeedink

The more I learn about this oil and gas industry, the more I'm shocked at the evil and corruption that allows it to exist. Glad I got out.

I worked with one of the survivors of the Seacrest disaster. The wreck was later scuttled in the Gulf of Thailand. I worked in the area of the wreck during a drilling campaign for Chevron.

This story is hardly known in Thailand. To be honest, I am Thai but I have just learned of this tragedy when I started working with someone whose relatives died in this disaster. It has never be told in the schools, even people in seaside towns don’t talk about it or seems to forget or even not aware of this sinking at all.

So FAAA found that the ship had acceptable stability at the moment it capsized, and that it handled the sea condition just fine until it didn't? How does a report like that not get laughed out of court?

Greed and corruption strike yet again, imagine my shock. Great video btw.

Amazing channel. Seriously underrated. I applaud you for such a fact focused narrative retelling of stories like this that should never be forgotten.

It never ceases to amaze and horrify me at the staggering level of apathy, greed, and evil that oil companies but especially Chevron have committed throughout the years. I just listened to a story some weeks ago about how Chevron ran drilling expeditions in South America (maybe around 30s-40s but perhaps in the 50s? I can't recall specifically) and they had clear protocol to follow in the Americas to preserve the environment and prevent, or at least greatly decrease, the risks of spills and contamination. They threw out the manual because this was land owned by natives and it was not American land, so they thought they'd never be held accountable if something went wrong. They went so far as to drill and dump crude in the environment with no retention ponds at all, decimating the land and leaving behind a sickening mess that continues to kill the indigenous people even today. They had forgone all safety protocol and raked in billions while also recklessly and haphazardly loosing crude along the way due to their lack of care. There's probably millions if not a billion dollars worth of oil that they just dumped, oil that has sat in the surface water, that has seeped into the ground water, oil that has choked out the vegetative life and led to the deaths of countless animals. The natives tried to sue Chevron, and immediately Chevron moved to have their trial held in South America believing that the government there would never hold them accountable. They actually knew that if their deeds came to public light in America they'd be lambasted as villainous and held to task for their evil. So they go to South America and are found guilty, something that surprised them. They were fined a significant amount of money and were told that they would need to head cleanup efforts until the water and ground was no longer toxic enough to kill the local inhabitants, animal or human. Chevron refused, and went for an appeal. In the end to this day Chevron has not done a single thing to rectify the damage they caused. They continue to turn a blind eye to the thousands of miles of rainforest they destroyed, and the many indigenous people who continue to die of cancer because of their mismanagement. And I'm certain that this is only one of probably hundreds of stories about their evil. Chevron, probably all oil companies, has blood on their hands and they have never been held accountable for the death and destruction they've wrought on the world in pursuit of energy domination and money.

Sounds like something our railroads here in the United States handles derailments , wrecks and fatalities . Add personal injuries to the list also . Anything to keep from having to pay for their mistakes or lack there of . Great video .

Thank you for making this. It should not be forgotten. RIP to all.

Some corrections. Misinterpreting "the moment they were about to capsize" probably refers to the "righting moment". "Moment" is a unit of torque here, not a moment in time. The righting moment is a function of metacentric height, which provides stability in different sea states. This ship was highly unstable with a very high metacentric height with the overhead weight in the drill tower, along with a variety of other issues with mass distribution at time of upgrade (which was not correctly surveyed for stability). I was actually a subcontractor at Failure Analysis just after this incident which I hadn't heard about at the time. I'm more than a bit chagrined by their conclusion which was slanted heavily in favor of their client. Given the same evidence I would have found UNOCAL at fault (and probably become quickly unemployed as a subcontractor).

I worked in the oil industry for thirty five years and for UNOCAL (pronounced You-Know-Cal) for several of those years. I dont recall ever hearing of this incident. This was horrible! Thank you for the History lesson. You have a great channel. Keep it up. I share your stories a lot. Thanks again. 👍🙋

You know and all my years of commercial fishing. I thought I dealt with some shitty conditions occasionally. And I did. I can honestly say though that none of the skippers that I fished with or the companies that I fished for ever willingly just sent me out to my death. It sounds like this company knew exactly what was coming and didn't really care if the men died because they're replaceable. But on the off chance that the storm doesn't hit them, they'll make a bunch more money. So there really isn't a downside in the equation if they leave the boat out there. I mean it's covered by insurance after all. What really gets me is that the crew was willing to go to see on a boat with no other way to receive information about the weather then what the company decided to send them. And I'm sure that there are stories that happened while that boat was going down, that made men eligible for an award on par with the medal of honor. We'll just never know though because they're all dead. And I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or agrees with me, but I feel like some of these stories would be even more gripping. If in the background you played the noise that ropes and cables make when the wind is blowing steadily at 50 or 60 knots. It is an unbelievable shriek. And it makes the hair on your body stand up. And it just gets louder and more ominous as the wind picks up.

I’ve always been fascinated with anything water and am happy I found your channel. There’s so many water disasters that we don’t hear of. I had heard of tsunamis 🌊 and watched news and read about them but the first time I watched one about a Japanese tsunami I was stunned. Thank you for your videos.

I’m actually surprised the Thai government let them off so easy. Obviously I have no practical experience but the government is notoriously hard on foreigners that cause problems in their country. Even being suspected of drugs brings you a stiff penalty. Apparently that doesn’t extend to white collar crime.

Executives will continue to do this sort of thing until they are looking at extensive jail time, not just a lawsuit. Every time one of these incidents occur at a gas/oil location, higher-ups made the decisions and they never receive any consequences. If you look them up later, they are still working, sometimes at an even higher level in the company.

Union Oil of California. Worked with them on and off for seventeen years and never heard it pronounced "You No Kul". Here we pronounce it "You No Cal" or "You Nuh Cal"