[Vo]:Animation of events which caused the Gulf Oil disaster...

[Mark Iverson]

This is an interesting and detailed animation of the sequence of events that 
eventually led to the
failure of the Blow-Out Preventer (BOP) and subsequent flow of crude into the 
Gulf...  They include
pictures of the actual failed components which provided the clues to piece 
together what happened.
 
The BOP is a 6-story tall, 300 ton assembly designed to handle pressures up to 
15,000 psi.  It has
redundant computer systems which did trigger and attempted to seal off the well 
pipe after losing
comms with the surface drilling platform.
 
http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Blow-Out-Preventer-(BOP)-1079.html
 
-Mark N. Iverson

markiver...@charter.net

 

Re: [Vo]:Animation of events which caused the Gulf Oil disaster...

[Jed Rothwell]

Wow. That is a good video.

What a nightmare.

Fukushima is even worse. I am sorry to say the Japanese government's 
response in the early days is now coming to light and it is even more 
appalling than originally reported. There were civilians including 
children within 10 km of the reactor for several days who were not 
evacuated or even warned they were in danger. What the government has 
been saying were the total emissions turned out to include only 
emissions from the first 5 days or so.


- Jed