As I understood it, it wasn't a series of fail-safes, it was a single one. One which failed testing before the explosion.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What you are missing is that the explosion did trigger a series of > fail-safes..all of which failed as well. Also missing is the fact > that the driller on the rig told the executive in charge that problems > existed, and they should stop, and was overridden by that executive. > Fail-safes only matter if they work. Also, no safety precautions are > going to work unless you use them, and "the man" on the rig was > obviously more concerned about money than safety. And guess what? BP > removed their CEO as a scapegoat, but left the people who actually > made these pathetic decisions on the job. Why isn't anyone bitching > about that? > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Medic <hofme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My thoughts are that the explosion should have automatically activated a > > series of fail-safes that closed the well. The amount of oil that should > be > > acceptable to spill should be the amount in the pipe from the base of the > > well to rig. Failing the automatic measure there should be a manual > series > > of valves that can be closed by submersible robot within hours (or at > most > > days) of a disaster. > > > > Having an operation like this without numerous redundant safety measures > as > > well as a rapid response plan (a REAL plan) on how to handle a disaster > is > > completely and utterly unforgivable. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324409 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
