We always talk about how we need to wean ourselves off of oil, but have any of us ever actually been on an oil rig to see how the process works?
Well, the diva Shirley Bassey has: an unearthed 1976 video shows the songstress known mostly for the song, Goldfinger, a classic from eponymous 1964 James Bond film, in the most bizarre juxtaposition.
The classic Everything’s Coming Up Roses features Bassey on the Zapata Ugland, a mobile offshore drilling rig, crooning away like a disco queen while workers got filthy extracting oil. Meanwhile, Bassey is amazingly unscathed, looking like a doctor and then a circus performer as she gets hoisted into the air above the Ugland and then soars above a tanker.
A few years later, the Zapata Ugland rig was in the news when its crew was dispatched to another mobile drilling unit, the Ocean Ranger, which sank in the Grand Banks area off of Newfoundland--all 84 crew members, however, were tragically lost in that February 1982 accident.
For your viewing entertainment, watch the 3 1/2 minute video here:
Leon Kaye is the founder and editor of GreenGoPost.com and its advisory division, GGP Media. Contact him to discuss how he can work with your organization or event.
His focus is making the business case for sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
He writes for San Francisco-based Triple Pundit, Inhabitat and now The Guardian, for which he writes about waste, water, and green building. He has also written for AIA's Architect Magazine.
Leon lives in Los Angeles, and when he has free time, he enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, weightlifting, and planning his next trip to one of the 50+ countries he has visited. He has an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and Cal State-Fresno.
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