An organization that was founded to repatriate archived material retrieved from the wreckage of the Ocean Ranger and currently held at the National Science Museum in Ottawa is continuing its efforts.

Clayton Burry, who lost his father, Joseph Clayton Burry in the tragedy, sees the material as important cultural treasures to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Eighty-four men died on the Ocean Ranger and three divers lost their lives in the salvage operation.

There is a memorial set up at Confederation Building to mark the sinking, but the Ocean Ranger Legacy Foundation’s focal mission is to create something which would physically exist to educate people on what it looked like, and what it was all about.

“We have some significant artifacts such as a scale model of the semi-submersible oil rig, some paddles and lifejackets, the porthole window that broke and allowed water into the ballast control room,” Burry told Your VOCM Mornings. “Allowing people to see that will bridge a gap and allow people to say ‘hey, this is very real’.”