There is no indication that either a collision or an explosion caused the 1994 sinking of a ferry in the Baltic Sea in one of Europe’s deadliest peacetime maritime disasters, the accident ...

‘Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story’ (BBC Two) 4/5 The Piper Alpha disaster. Photo: PA It took more than three weeks to fully extinguish the fires caused by multiple explosions on the Piper Alpha ...