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The memo -- which opened with a cheery anecdote about a North Sea oil-rig worker who had to choose between burning to death as a fire swept across his rig's platform or jumping into the freezing ocean almost 100 feet below -- concluded "Nokia, our platform is burning."

Nokia to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, scuttling Symbian Rob Pegoraro 2011

He is now demanding that the rig's master orders an immediate halt to drilling, and is requesting a copy of the rig's missing oil spill response plan, said Greenpeace.

Greenpeace Again Scales Oil Rig Alexis Flynn 2011

Tucked away inside one of the cabins there is even a communal sauna, bought with funds raised by the rig's welfare committee and fitted by one of the electricians.

A working life: The gas rig technician Graham Snowdon 2010

He is now demanding that the rig's master orders an immediate halt to drilling, and is requesting a copy of the rig's missing oil spill response plan, said Greenpeace.

Greenpeace Again Scales Oil Rig Alexis Flynn 2011

On the morning of April 17, three days before the explosion, Mr. Guide sent the email to Mr. Sims to complain that "there has been so many last minute changes to the operation" that the rig's on-board managers had "finally come to their wits end."

Shifting Procedures Upset BP's Rig Team Ben Casselman 2011

"There it is!" she exclaims, pointing to a dark blob, perched incongruously halfway along the main girder supporting the rig's permanently burning gas flare.

A working life: The gas rig technician Graham Snowdon 2010

The high-pitched hum of the rig's two jet-engine compressors, which push up to 25m3 of natural gas per day along a 90cm-wide pipeline to Barrow-in-Furness, rings loudly in our ears.

A working life: The gas rig technician Graham Snowdon 2010

By 10pm she will be back on a night shift running through to 6am, a sharp reintroduction to the rig's metronomic work patterns.

A working life: The gas rig technician Graham Snowdon 2010

In her white safety helmet, protective gloves, glasses and red, monogrammed boiler suit, blackened slightly by outdoor maintenance work, she leads us between the rig's three platforms – one for accommodation, one for production and one for drilling – connected by iron-latticed walkways, through which we can see nothing below us but the deep blue sea.

A working life: The gas rig technician Graham Snowdon 2010

Cairn confirmed activists were attempting to disrupt the rig's journey to its exploration site offshore Greenland.

Greenpeace Activists Climb Oil Rig Off Greenland Associated Press 2011