Ocean Ranger adalah sebuah pelantar gerudi luar pantai boleh gerak separa tenggelam yang karam di perairan Kanada pada 15 Februari, 1982. Ia sedang menjalankan aktiviti penggerudian di sebuah telaga eksplorasi di kawasan Grand Banks, 267 kilometer (166 bt) timur St. John's, Newfoundland, untuk Mobil Oil of Canada, Ltd. (MOCAN) bersama-sama 84 orang krew semasa tenggelam. Tiada mangsa yang terselamat dalam kemalangan ini.

Gambaran ketahanan pelantar gerudi Ocean Ranger terhadap rogue wave.
1 – Untuk perbandingan, gelombang Draupner 59 kaki/18 m
2 – 28 kaki/8.5 m
3 – Lokasi bilik kawalan balast

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  • United States Coast Guard: Marine Casualty Report for Ocean Ranger
  • 20 Years Ago Offshore Tragedy Claimed 84 Lives, Atlantic Oil and Gas Works, Feb. 2002
  • The novel February by Lisa Moore tells the story of a woman whose husband died in the Ocean Ranger disaster
  • Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster by Mike Heffernan is a collection of first person accounts from former rig works, victim's families, government officials, media and search and rescue crews. It also includes previously unpublished photographs.
  • Ron Hynes wrote a song called "Atlantic Blue" as a tribute to the crew of Ocean Ranger
  • The Ocean Ranger: blood, money, and the politics of memory, Susan Dodd, Fernwood: Halifax, forthcoming.

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