Disaster strikes a 10,105-ton floating dormitory
"There was a sharp, crackling sound followed by something that sounded like a muffled explosion." So recalled one of the numbed but fortunate few who were plucked from the icy North Sea last week after the worst oil rig disaster in the history of offshore drilling. Battered by towering 25-ft. waves and 55-knot winds, a mammoth floating dormitory housing 212 oil workers capsized and plunged into the sea, 100 miles west of the Norwegian coast.
"There was panic everywhere," said Gerry Stigen, 36, a Norwegian oil rig...
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