A group of BP executives were on board the Deepwater Horizon rig celebrating the project's safety re

[lonestarnot]

... "The mud room was next to the quarters where the party was. Then there was a series of explosions that subsequently ignited the oil that was coming from below."

...The BP executives were injured but survived, according to one account. Nine rig crew on the rig floor and two engineers died

:mad: Just like fucking drill baby drillers to party down while the shit hits the fan.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0508/bp-executives-aboard-rig-celebrating-safety-record-methane-bubble-triggered-blast/

[annabanana]

1. I knew that none of THEM were in that unlucky 11.

I wonder how they sleep at night?

[Warpy]

2. Two engineers were

probably the guys who volunteered to go outside and find out what the noise was all about. Then BOOM.

If only they'd taken reliable samples of how much crystallized methane was in that oil.

[lonestarnot]

4. I wonder how many of them are chaffered around in limos and shuffle around in their extinct hummers

and hemi shit.

[Warpy]

7. Everybody is shuttled to and from the rigs by chopper.

What they do on the ground is anybody's guess, but I'm betting a Lexus SUV is the most restrained it gets.

[lonestarnot]

9. Yes those too and corporate jets daily etc.

[Warpy]

10. The roughnecks are choppered in and out, too

My ex used to do that to meet survey boats off George's Banks, chopper out to a rig with the crew, catch the boat at the rig.

[lonestarnot]

12. I think I was referring more to other life aside from the rig.

[lonestarnot]

3. Probably laughing it up about how they fucked up the entire gulf coast and no telling what else.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Imagine their faces when they started smelling the Methane and realized they were about to die

And being in the business they had to know what was coming soon after smelling the Methane.

What a horror show.

Don

[lonestarnot]

6. Yeah only equalizer in life is death.

[RC]

11. Methane itself is odorless.

It is the other stuff in it you smell.

[metapunditedgy]

8. I remember reading that there was a procedure that some of the crew

was supposed to lower the lifeboats for other folks on board, then they had to go to other lifeboats. It seemed odd to me at the time.

I wonder if the procedure was to get the execs to safety first?