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Today, March 13, marks the anniversary of the tragic passing of Bernard “Copper” Murphy.
Bernard was a dedicated Network Technician with the Newfoundland Telephone Company. On March 13, 1985, while working to support the communications system aboard the offshore oil rig Bow Drill I, Bernard boarded a Universal Helicopters flight departing the rig at 10:45 p.m. Less than 1,500 metres from takeoff, the helicopter crashed, claiming the lives of six workers, including Bernard.
Bernard “Copper” Murphy is honoured each year through a Local 410 scholarship awarded in his name to a child or dependent of one of our members—a lasting tribute to a life dedicated to skill, service, and solidarity.
Members of Local 410 Executive visited the memorial erected to the men and women who have lost their lives to offshore helicopter accidents where Bernard ‘Copper’ Murphy is honoured, to lay flowers in his memory.
To learn more please read here:
Remembering the Universal Helicopter crash 35 years later | PNI Atlantic News