Seconds From Disaster - Season 1 - Eps 10: Explosion in the North Sea
July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha stands over 110 miles off Scotland. But on this fateful day, a gas leak causes a catastrophic fire with a loss of 167 workers. Why did the Piper Alpha explode without warning? Was Human Error to blame? What about Mechanical Failure? Or even sabotage?
About Seconds From Disaster
Title: Seconds From Disaster
First Air Date: 2005-09-19
Last Air Date: 2018-02-22
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 23 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 7
Total Episodes: 69
Network: National Geographic
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: DSP
Synopsis
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
Cast
Richard Vaughn
Narrator (voice)
