Thistle SALM

The Thistle SALM (Single Anchor Leg Mooring) was a tanker loading facility that allowed oil from the Thistle oilfield to be transported to land where a submarine export pipeline did not yet exist. It was also the site of the 8 August 1979 Wildrake diving accident that killed two divers. and the 21 January 1981 Stena Seaspread diving accident (non-fatal).