Zeebrugge disaster documentary.

paulchapo said:
On channel five tonight at 9pm, Why ships sink. I remember it happening vividly, I was on the shipping federation waiting for a ship, living at my parents. It was a Friday evening and they were out. I remember the newsflash coming on the TV and I spent all night following any news I could get. A good Blue from Wythenshawe, Geoff Haney, a chef, died onboard. Tragic and bizarely a few weeks later I was offered a job with the same company, Townsend Thoreson, after being out of work for eight months. I was one of the replacements for the crew that died that night. The company charted a ship called the Vortigan to replace the Herald temporarily before their new superferry the Pride of Dover came in and we all transferred onto that.

One thing that wound me up no end was the amount of passengers who thought it was fucking hilarious to say, "Have you shut the doors?" If I heard that once I heard it a thousand times. Considering every single crew member on on all the ships knew at least one person who'd died on the Herald I was astounded by their insensitivity.
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Remember getting the special coach to QPR the Following morning. They all invaded the pitch in protest about a proposed merger with Fulham
 
paulchapo said:
On channel five tonight at 9pm, Why ships sink. I remember it happening vividly, I was on the shipping federation waiting for a ship, living at my parents. It was a Friday evening and they were out. I remember the newsflash coming on the TV and I spent all night following any news I could get. A good Blue from Wythenshawe, Geoff Haney, a chef, died onboard. Tragic and bizarely a few weeks later I was offered a job with the same company, Townsend Thoreson, after being out of work for eight months. I was one of the replacements for the crew that died that night. The company charted a ship called the Vortigan to replace the Herald temporarily before their new superferry the Pride of Dover came in and we all transferred onto that.

One thing that wound me up no end was the amount of passengers who thought it was fucking hilarious to say, "Have you shut the doors?" If I heard that once I heard it a thousand times. Considering every single crew member on on all the ships knew at least one person who'd died on the Herald I was astounded by their insensitivity.
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Watched it last night. Unbeleivable that the ship sank in 90 seconds, giving nobody any time to react.
 
m7mcfc said:
Just watched this on catch up. I'm going to hell. I laughed when the woman who survived described someone in a wheel chair zooming past her when the boat tilted.
Am I bad?
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Probably.
We had some cracking disasters back in the 80's - space shuttle, the one we are not allowed to forget at Forest, Bradford, piper alpha, Lockerbie, marchioness, kings cross, and aids was getting going properly. There are probably more that I've forgotten or happened abroad.
 
paulchapo said:
On channel five tonight at 9pm, Why ships sink. I remember it happening vividly, I was on the shipping federation waiting for a ship, living at my parents. It was a Friday evening and they were out. I remember the newsflash coming on the TV and I spent all night following any news I could get. A good Blue from Wythenshawe, Geoff Haney, a chef, died onboard. Tragic and bizarely a few weeks later I was offered a job with the same company, Townsend Thoreson, after being out of work for eight months. I was one of the replacements for the crew that died that night. The company charted a ship called the Vortigan to replace the Herald temporarily before their new superferry the Pride of Dover came in and we all transferred onto that.

One thing that wound me up no end was the amount of passengers who thought it was fucking hilarious to say, "Have you shut the doors?" If I heard that once I heard it a thousand times. Considering every single crew member on on all the ships knew at least one person who'd died on the Herald I was astounded by their insensitivity.
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My friend's brother in law died on that.
He was ex-RN Auxiliary and got a job on it due to his experience.

His sister took a very long time to move on from it, as you can imagine.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Probably.
We had some cracking disasters back in the 80's - space shuttle, the one we are not allowed to forget at Forest, Bradford, piper alpha, Lockerbie, marchioness, kings cross, and aids was getting going properly. There are probably more that I've forgotten or happened abroad.
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I studied them once, MGM Grand, Union Carbide and Exxon Valdez
 
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