TransOcean Missing Tapes and Logs

[boston bean]

In the fateful hours before the Deepwater Horizon exploded about 50 miles off the Louisiana shore, a safety test was supposedly performed to detect if explosive gas was leaking from the mile-deep well.

While some data were being transmitted to shore for safekeeping right up until the blast, officials from Transocean, the rig owner, told Congress that the last seven hours of its information are missing and that all written logs were lost in the explosion. Earlier tests that suggested explosive gas was leaking were preserved.

The gap poses a mystery for investigators: What decisions were made -- and what warnings might have been ignored?

"There is some delay in the replication of our data, so our operational data, our sequence of events ends at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the 20th," Steven Newman, president and CEO of Transocean Ltd, told a Senate panel. The rig blew up at 10 p.m., killing 11 workers and unleashing the gusher.

Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents several rig workers involved in the accident, questioned whether what he called "the phantom test" was even performed.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=7441705

[Joanne98]

1. Rosemary Woods rides again!

[boston bean]

2. Isn't this so very convenient?? Wonder if an enterprising"journalist" has the guts to investigate?

Somehow I doubt it...

There is no Woodward and Bernstein in todays political environment, most have sold out to the corporatocracy!

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Greg Palast

Don't forget about him.

[spanone]

5. 'journalist' ??? what's that?

:sarcasm:

[boston bean]

6. They will just report it, and then not another word. hey, they told us, right??

no special series, not investigation on their own.

Leave it up to the bloggers and if we rock the boat a little, they'll report on it for a week or so.

[mod mom]

4. Just like the WH emails and cheney connected to both...hmmmh...

[HopeHoops]

7. Isn't that just fucking convenient.

:eyes:

I'm *SURE* they just misplaced them. :sarcasm:

[Junkdrawer]

8. And so it begins. In unrelated news, Office Depot noted an uptick...

of shredder purchases in their TX/LA/AL stores.

[liberalla]

9. More info regarding the last 6 hours before explosion here

here: I ran across this tonite...

Stunning, if true.

[rucky]

10. "replication of our data"

= we need more time to make shit up and get our stories straight