Evidence from a disaster: Inside an Ottawa museum that holds Ocean Ranger artifacts
On storage shelves sit pieces of the past from a tragic event in Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry. The Ocean Ranger, a rig drilling for oil off eastern Newfoudland, sank on Feb. 15, 1982.
![Evidence from a disaster: Inside an Ottawa museum that holds Ocean Ranger artifacts](https://i.cbc.ca/1.2955451.1707331246!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ocean-ranger-seen-from-afar-taken-by-david-boutcher.jpg)
![The Ocean Ranger, as seen by David Boutcher, some time in the 1980s before the rig sank in a severe storm. An oil rig sitting in the ocean.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.2955451.1707331246!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ocean-ranger-seen-from-afar-taken-by-david-boutcher.jpg)
On storage shelves sit pieces of the past from a tragic event in Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry. The Ocean Ranger, a rig drilling for oil off eastern Newfoudland, sank on Feb. 15, 1982.