Video: 'Alexander Kielland ulykken'

(Thursday, March 27, 1980, approximately 6:30 p.m. Central European Time) — 123 workers died tonight when a floating Norwegian oil field platform, the Alexander Kielland, capsized in the North Sea during a storm.

Video: 'ALEXANDER KIELLAND'

212 people were on rig at the time of the disaster, which occurred in the Ekofisk oil field approximately 200 miles east of Dundee, Scotland.