Heal

The Piper Alpha memorial sculpture, showing three oil workers, was dedicated in Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen. was a stunned city that was grappling for a way forward.

Reverend Alan Swinton, the chaplain to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, who guided families and survivors through the most painful days after the disaster, summed up the mood during the service, The Scotsman reported.

“They said time will heal, but that’s a fortnight now, Lord, and it hasn’t healed at all. If anything, it’s worse,” the minister said. Piper Bravo, the replacement for Piper Alpha, started producing oil and was designed as the first of a new generation of platforms with freefall lifeboats, an accommodation section well away from the working area, and a system of “safe refuges”. A memorial service marking the 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha tragedy took place in Aberdeen. On the 25th anniversary of the tragedy the then Prime Minister David