The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was not fully activated on the day it caught fire and exploded, setting off the spill in the gulf, a rig worker told a government panel investigating the accident. The worker, the chief electronics technician aboard the rig, said the general safety alarm was habitually set to “inhibited” to avoid waking up the crew with late-night sirens.
Yes, we always turn off our smoke alarms at night so they don’t wake us.
WTF?
Mr. Williams, who filed a lawsuit against Transocean in federal court in New Orleans on April 29, added several new details about the equipment on the rig, testifying that another Transocean official had turned a critical system for removing dangerous gas from the drilling shack to “bypass mode.”When Mr. Williams questioned that decision, he said he was reprimanded.
“No, the damn thing’s been in bypass for five years,” he recalled being told by Mark Hay, the subsea supervisor. “Why’d you even mess with it?”
Mr. Williams recalled that Mr. Hay added, “The entire fleet runs them in ‘bypass.’ ”
Can there be any more crimes committed by the companies involved in this catastrophe? They should all be put out of business.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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