The jetty's concrete crumbled and split the Betelgeuse open
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The jetty's concrete crumbled and split the Betelgeuse open
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On a hillside above Bantry Bay in southwest Ireland, two unnamed graves sit beside a memorial sculpture with a ship's bell set into its face — recovered from a wreck that killed fifty people in a single night. Forty-one were crew, one an officer's wife visiting her husband, eight were terminal workers on the jetty below, and only twenty-seven bodies were ever recovered. The two companies responsible for that jetty and that ship have never agreed on what actually tore the vessel apart in the dark water of the bay.
In this episode, we trace the January 1979 destruction of the tanker Betelgeuse at the Whiddy Island oil terminal, from the economic pressures that built the facility to the falsified logs and the unresolved dispute over how the ship broke apart, asking whether an official inquiry can ever settle a truth that both companies involved refuse to accept.
Person: John Connolly, terminal despatcher
Location: Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, West Cork, Ireland
Date: 8 January 1979
Case: the explosion and break-up of the oil tanker betelgeuse at the whiddy island terminal jetty
Status: financial claims settled out of court; no criminal prosecution; cause never established beyond doubt
- Betelgeuse, registered by Total S.A. at Le Havre, had a deadweight tonnage of 121,432 tonnes and was eleven years old at the time of the disaster
- Fifty people died on the night of 8 January 1979; only twenty-seven bodies were ever recovered, and two of those remain unidentified
- The Costello Tribunal, presided over by Mr Justice Declan Costello, heard evidence for a year and produced a 480-page report
- The terminal's own fire engine would not start, and the offshore jetty, 488 metres long, had no fixed link to the shore
- Investigators found falsified operational logs and a conspiracy involving Gulf personnel and
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