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The programme, part of a Granada World in Action programme, examines the human factors behind the loss of the motor vessel Burtonia in the North Sea. It begins with a dramatic reconstruction of eve...nts leading up to the sinking and goes on to put a series of questions to the Coastguard regarding the disaster.
The programme, part of a Granada World in Action programme, examines the human factors behind the loss of the motor vessel Burtonia in the North Sea. It begins with a dramatic reconstruction of eve...nts leading up to the sinking and goes on to put a series of questions to the Coastguard regarding the disaster.
| Module code and title: | TD342, Systems performance: human factors and systems failures |
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| Item code: | TD342; 01 |
| First transmission date: | 22-02-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:24 |
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| Producer: | John Groom |
| Contributors: | J. T. Fetherston-Dilke; Geoff Peters; Roger Spear |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Burtonia; Coastguards; Liaison procedures; North Sea; Operation; Reconstruction |
| Footage description: | Excerpts from a news bulletin reporting the sinking of the motor vessel Burtonia in a North Sea storm introduces the programme. Over shots of a lifeboat, a coastguard station a rescue helicopter and its crew, and a G.P.O. coastal radio station, commentary points out the rescue services which ships in British waters rely on. The commentary goes on to explain how the Burtonia disaster is reconstructed for this programme. A reconstruction of the events leading up to the sinking of the Burtonia follows. Shots of the rescue services listed above and of a trawler in a severe North Sea storm. Commentary points out, particularly, the mistakes made by the rescue services which made the disaster inevitable. Geoff Peters briefly describes the format for the rest of the programme. The rest of the programme consists of a series of questions put to Commander J T Fetherstone Dilke, Inspector of the Coastguard Eastern Division by Roger Spear. The questions concern rescue procedures with particular reference to failures during the Burtonia crisis. Occasional shots of animated maps and the rescue services while he talks. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71801 |
| Production number: | 00525_5236 |
| Videofinder number: | 755 |
| Available to public: | no |
