Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours

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Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours

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Published on Sunday, December 26, 2010 by Agence France-Presse
Probe Finds 'Total Collapse of BP Rig Defenses'

Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours


But this was a disaster with two distinct parts — first a blowout, then the destruction of the Horizon. The second part, which killed 11 people and injured dozens, has escaped intense scrutiny, as if it were an inevitable casualty of the blowout.

It was not.

Nearly 400 feet long, the Horizon had formidable and redundant defenses against even the worst blowout. It was equipped to divert surging oil and gas safely away from the rig. It had devices to quickly seal off a well blowout or to break free from it. It had systems to prevent gas from exploding and sophisticated alarms that would quickly warn the crew at the slightest trace of gas. The crew itself routinely practiced responding to alarms, fires and blowouts, and it was blessed with experienced leaders who clearly cared about safety.

On paper, experts and investigators agree, the Deepwater Horizon should have weathered this blowout.

This is the story of how and why it didn't.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us/26spill.html?_r=1&hp

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1. Function not data, since there is a metaphor in there.

And it has been posted twice after a post made so going to make a metaphorical response.

Weathering the storm is standing with justice and compassion, the storm was weathered, many just don't know what it means to weather a storm.

Hence, I am due beer and travel money, and they actually know that and are grasping at straws by trying to defend their positions. What they would have called weathering would have been running away, not standing against the wrong.