1980年挪威沉船事件1980年在挪威的南部海岸有艘船遭遇沉船,有位名叫ALEXSANDENKLEHLAND的人在这次事件中遇难（这个人好像是一个比较有名气的人）,有谁能提供一下这件事情的具体情况,

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1980年挪威沉船事件
1980年在挪威的南部海岸有艘船遭遇沉船,有位名叫ALEXSANDEN KLEHLAND的人在这次事件中遇难（这个人好像是一个比较有名气的人）,有谁能提供一下这件事情的具体情况,

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In driving rain and mist,early in the evening of 27 March 1980 more than 200 men were off duty in the accommodation on the Alexander Kielland.The wind was gusting to 40 knots with waves up to 12m high.The rig had just been winched away from the Edda production platform.Minutes before 18.30 those on board felt a 'sharp crack' followed by 'some kind of trembling'.Suddenly the rig heeled over 30° and then stabilised.Five of the six anchor cables had broken,the one remaining cable preventing the rig from capsizing.The list continued to increase and at 18.53 the remaining anchor cable snapped and the rig turned upside down.130 men were in the mess hall and the cinema.The rig had seven 50-man lifeboats and twenty 20-man rafts.Four lifeboats were launched,but only one managed to release from the lowering cables.(A safety device did not allow release until the strain was removed from the cables.) A fifth lifeboat came adrift and surfaced upside down; its occupants righted it and gathered 19 men from the water.Two of Kielland's rafts were detached,three men being rescued from them.Two 12-man rafts were thrown from Edda and rescued 13 survivors.Seven men were taken from the sea by supply boats and seven swam to Edda.
No-one was rescued by the standby vessel which took an hour to reach the scene.
Of the 212 people aboard 123 were killed,making it as of 2007[update] the worst disaster in Norwegian offshore history since WWII.Most of the workers were from Rogaland.