by Glenn Orgias Piper Alpha during the 1988 disaster. Photo courtesy Cullen Inquiry. July 6, 1988. — Karen: This is all I know. Andre had taken to visiting the helideck of the Piper Alpha oil rig, looking from there out at the fog over the North Sea. He once told me that the sound of the foghorn on Piper Alpha was the sound loneliness would make if given a voice. 200 miles from Aberdeen it was. 170 feet below deck, the ocean smashed up against the pylons. A fall from the heli