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Abstract

This book is part of a collection of five works on memories from the Alexander L. Kielland oil platform disaster in 1980. The book includes memories of those who lost their relatives or close ones in the accident. When we phrase ourselves in this way, it is an acknowledgment of the many known and un-known of the accident. A number of those who died in the accident had established their own families and had children. In addition all had family members like parents, siblings and other family members in the extended family. In one case one of the dead had a child in the process of being adopted. He was too young to adopt at the time of his death, but the child was the daughter of his partner and regarded him as her father. Thus, socially by the local community and by other family members she was regarded as having lost her father. In other cases there are partners and close ones not officially recognized and we assume possibly not even known. We phrase ourselves like this because we hope that possible additional close ones will get in touch with the memory bank. We do know from wartime cases that such people might in touch after a long time and even through others. The memories are from interviews conducted by the listed authors with those regarding themselves as having lost a close one in the disaster. The interviewees have all read the interview transcripts, have sometimes altered them and made additions, and in a few cases have rewritten them to such an extent that they themselves are listed as authors. An included list of references is a selection of archival sources as well as published sources related to the memories in this collection. More substantial bibliographies, as well as lists of archival sources, are included in Smith-Solbakken (2016) and in Smith-Solbakken and Weihe (2019). Further specialized publications focus on subjects such as post-traumatic stress disorders (Smith-Solbakken and Weihe, 2018) and grief (Weihe and Smith-Solbakken, 2012), and include additional bibliographies.