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By Scott McCullar
Giraffe donated to LA Zoo
in memory of dead son
Mobil Oil Canada rig collapses
Search finds no survivors
United Press International
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland
Search officials reported
Monday there were no apparent
survivors among an 84-man
drilling crew that challenged the
storm-tossed Atlantic in a de
sperate attempt to escape a tee
tering offshore oil rig.
Seven hours after the col
lapse of the $50 million, 10-
>wHuda story-high Mobil Oil Canada rig
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in the oilrich Hibernia field,
Coast Guard vessels radioed
they had found two fibreglass
ig, hehasi lifeboats bobbing in the churn-
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indication the lifeboats carried
emergency locator devices.
Radio contact was lost im
mediately after the rig broadcast
a Mayday. Search planes that
battled the fierce ocean storm in
a hunt for survivors reported all
that was visible of the rig was an
anchor and wave-riding marker
buoys.
Seven hours after the evacua
tion, searchers reported they
had spotted a partially inflated
liferaft and two of the 40-foot
fiberglass lifeboats, each of
which can carry up to 50 people.
Mobil said one of the sausage
shaped lifeboats was in a cap
sized position and the other one
stern down, indicating both had
taken on water. Bodies were
seen near the lifeboats, but
Sherk said no one has been able
to get close to them because the
swell is very high.
Coast guard officer Lt. Cmdr.
Douglas Caie said the Atlantic
snow storm had reduced visibil
ity to 300 feet and winds were
gusting up to 70 mph. Under
mg seas.
“There were also bodies seen
book W« in the water, but there is no indi
te Mark! cation at this time that there are
me he »i s>ny survivors,” Mobil official
the preps Susan Sherk said.
She acknowledged the Ocean
Ranger rig had experienced a 5
degree list last week when one of
16 supporting pontoons went
lightly out of balance, letting
ater in or out. She did not
now when it had last under-
[gone a safety check.
A fleet of planes, coast guard
essels and the bulk carrier
adus Atlantica battled the
jangry sea to reach the area, on
the promising Hibernia oil field
170 miles east of St. John’s, but
conditions are still very ’ bad,
coast guard officer Capt. Robert
Alford said. > «. u.
“My personal opinion is that it
would be a miracle if there are
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — When
Michael and Marsha Fuerst’s
son died of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome, they buried
him with the stuffed giraffe that
was his first toy. They saved for
five years to donate a real giraffe
to the Los Angeles zoo as a
memorial.
“We wanted a living memo
rial and something that could be
enjoyed by children every
where,” Mrs. Fuerst at the
weekend dedication ceremony
said.
She said she hoped the gift
would draw attention to the ill
ness that killed their 5-month-
old son, Matthew Ray, and make
the work of the National Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome Found
ation better known.
The Covina, Calif., couple
paid $10,000 for the 10-foot-tall
Masai giraffe. About 175 friends
and relatives, including Matth
ew’s two brothers and two sis
ters, gathered at the zoo Satur
day for the dedication.
Marcia Hobbs, president of
the Greater Los Angeles Zoo
Association, presented the
Fuersts with a certificate.
“We’re thrilled he’s (the giraf
fe) here,” Michael Fuerst told
the gathering.
When the family first decided
to get the giraffe, they found out
it would cost $4,000. It took
hlin said, but them two years to save the
problems. Mo- money and when they called the
Finally, the family promised mediately if the price could be
to pay what money it had im- set at $10,000, Fuerst said.
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disasters in history. On March
27, 1980, 123 workers died
when an oil platform collapsed
in the North Sea. Seventy crew
men were killed when a rig top
ed into China’s Bo Hai Gulf
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such conditions, even the spe
cially-designed northern rescue
helicopters cannot drop life-
support equipment.
Coast guard spokesman Mal
colm McLaughlin estimated a
man wearing regular clothing
and a lifejacket could survive
only 30 to 90 minutes in the icy
water. Water temperatures were
a few degrees above freezing.
There were two other oil rigs
in the same area of the Grand
Banks, McLau
neither reporter
bil said all three rigs had stopped zoo, they were told the price of a
drilling, and there was no dan- giraffe had escalated to $7,000.
ger of an oil leak into the ocean. Three years later, with $7,000
The rigs were still conducting in the bank, the family called the
exploratory drilling and pro- zoo again, and the price had
duction had not begun. gone up to $10,000.
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