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Two Fingers, One Chain Reaction: How Mumbai High Vanished
Two Fingers, One Chain Reaction: How Mumbai High Vanished
A cook aboard an ONGC support vessel severed the tips of two fingers, and within two hours India's largest oil platform collapsed into the sea, killing twenty-two people and leaving eleven never recovered. The routine decision to transfer that injured crewman by crane forced a support ship up against a windward platform leg during monsoon swells - so how did a small medical rescue become an irreversible chain reaction that swallowed a $370 million installation?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events that afternoon of July…
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