My father,Peter Cubbage, who has died aged 91, and was a main gas forensic research scientist. He led a team that was responsible,among other things, for pioneering the flame-release chamber, or a safety innovation used in offshore oil rigs and pipelines,which was compared to the miners Davy lamp for its significance.
He was appointed by the crown in 1988 to write the report into what happened during the first two seconds of the Piper Alpha rig explosion.
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Source: theguardian.com