CRUDE #6 - The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea
  • Search
    • Sign up for our newsletter
    COMMONS
    CRUDE #6 – The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea
    An unspeakable tragedy occurs off the coast of Newfoundland. But this isn’t just a story about a nautical disaster. It’s about what happens when a poor province finds immense riches just within reach. And how the promise of oil wealth can twist history around itself.
    June 11, 2019
    Share

    An unspeakable tragedy occurs off the coast of Newfoundland. But this isn’t just a story about a nautical disaster. It’s about what happens when a poor province finds immense riches just within reach. And how the promise of oil wealth can twist history around itself.

    Featured in this episode: Susan Dodd, Danny O’Brien, Sean Cadigan

    ADDITIONAL MUSIC CREDITS:
    “Seeker” and “Scenery” by Kai Engel, adapted

    To learn more:

    The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil by Susan Dodd

    Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster by Mike Heffernan

    “The Ranger Disaster” by CBC’s The Fifth Estate

    This show was brought to you by our patrons. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter.

    This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks, HelloFresh and Penguin Random House.

    More from this series
    REAL ESTATE #7 – The Ballad of Eddy Haymour
    Eddy Haymour has been called a lot of things in his life. Immigrant success story. Kidnapper. Terrorist. Folk Hero.
    July 21, 2021
    REAL ESTATE #6 – Canada’s Biggest Slumlord
    The Toronto Community Housing Corporation is the biggest landlord in Canada, and the second biggest in all of North America.
    July 7, 2021
    REAL ESTATE #5 Oka
    The Oka Crisis was the biggest military confrontation on Canadian soil in more than a century. On its face, it was about a golf course expansion. But for the Mohawks who took up arms, it was the culmination of a centuries-long fight for recognition of their sovereignty and their land.
    June 23, 2021
    REAL ESTATE #4 – City of Glass
    Real estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver.
    June 9, 2021
    REAL ESTATE #3 – Terminal City
    Vancouver is obsessed with real estate. But what most people don’t realize, is that it’s been this way from the beginning.
    May 26, 2021
    REAL ESTATE #2 – The Last Man in Africville
    Africville was one of Canada’s oldest Black settlements, a proud community of more than 400 people. And then the City of Halifax decided to utterly obliterate it.
    May 12, 2021
    REAL ESTATE #1 – The Bridle Path
    The Bridle Path is one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Canada, home to the ultra-wealthy and the famous. But behind their locked gates, some of Canada’s elite try to scheme their way into even greater wealth on the property market — not always legally.  And their ambitions have a way of becoming problems for the rest of us. 
    April 28, 2021
    Introducing our new season… Real Estate!
    Stories about Canada’s real estate obsession.
    April 22, 2021
    all podcasts arrow All Podcasts
    COMMONS