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Shane Roshto Adam Weise And those who loved them. And those that were injured and seriously affected mentally by the accident. But many blowouts may have been prevented. Do we know? Did we learn all that we should have learned from the Deepwater Horizon accident? Let me know your opinion in the comments section below. One finding was that BP needed more effective root cause analysis to prevent further process safety accidents. deepwater horizon explosion video.
It ran world-wide…except in the USA. The oil company chieftains kept the devastating information tightly concealed — even though US law required they report such rig failures to the US Department of Interior. Interior caved deepwqter the pressure, let BP drill, and drill using a supremely dangerous method, ignorant of the prior blow-out.
Remembering The Deepwater Horizon Blowout, Explosion, and Spill 11 Years Later
For the clean-up, they were given kitty litter scoopers tied to sticks. My beach companion, Professor Rick Steiner, then Chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Alaska, an expert in oil contamination, was freaked out, watching the workers dancing in cancer-causing poison. BP did not give them the hazmat suits the oil companies were required link provide during the clean-up in Alaska. Rafael Gill, BP oil clean-up worker. Deepwater horizon explosion video the oil sloshed ashore, the Gulf Coast casinos and tourist joints where he worked shut down. To feed his kids, their food was limited to hot dogs and bologna sandwiches. He kept working as he talked, scared to lose the job, and careful never to let his kitty litter scooper go deeper than a quarter inch below surface of the sand, as BP demanded.
Why a quarter inch? Steiner took a spade and dug about eight inches when he hit the ooze. BP only wanted to give the beach a nice facial deepwater horizon explosion video the TV crews.
We watched the TV screen, with here vessels spritzing water on the massive oil blaze, as effective as a couple bottles of seltzer on a burning skyscraper. Twenty years earlier, I had directed an investigation of fraud in the Exxon Valdez crack up, so I happen to know a fair amount about oil spill containment. As an investigator, I also know a lot about bullshit. Basically, you surround a stricken rig deepwater horizon explosion video vessel with rubber, and suck the oil out.
It took four days to get sufficient boom to the Deepwater Horizon, though by that time, the slick was bigger than Jamaica, impossible to surround. What I deepwater horizon explosion video happening in the Gulf was exactly what happened in Alaska 21 years before when the Exxon Valdez hit on the very spot where the oil shippers promised to keep their rubber boom.
And who lied to safety inspectors in Alaska about the rubber boom?
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The company legally in charge of shipping safety: British Petroleum. And once again, here in the Gulf, there was no boom, no skimmer vessel. Once again, it was BP who made the promise in writing — but found it cheaper to give Raphael Gill a pooper scooper and minimum wage, to pay off a few widows, to pay off a few politicians, than to spend deepwater horizon explosion video billions required annually to keep our coasts safe and their workers alive.]
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