Royce Really really bad luck

Royce Nature has a purpose, and that purpose was to stop this PARTICULAR oil rig . Nature works in mysterious ways...*floats away*

True for all major accidents in complex technological systems. It's called the Swiss cheese model in engineering.

The video is careful to craft language that does not assign blame (they don't want to get sued lol), so does not indicate that there was a string of negligent behavior by the DWHorizon's owners/operators that chronically disregarded correct procedure, and emphasized cost-cutting and time-saving measures. So, it is shocking, but not surprising that a "perfect storm" of safety failures can happen. Errors become mistakes, become accidents, become catastrophe through negligence.

Exactly Eadwin. When money goes ahead of safety, disaster can strike.

Exactly what I was just saying!!!! Thank you🙌

Bingo .

Oh yeah, we say that in the software development business also

Also, twice or it doesn't count.

One oil barrel is 5.614 cu ft 5mil barrels is 28.07mil cubic feet. 28.07million cubic feet is 0.0002 cubic miles. Bottom line? That's a tiny amount of ocean. All these oil spills are treated in the media as world-ending spills. They're far from that. Just a few years later they're all gone, or have basically zero impact on life. It's amazing how the media can get away with talking about these in an overblown and out-of-proportion manner. Trying to guilt society for using oil, basically&truthfully. Why do we as a society allow the media to do any of this? As soon as a media outlet does anything similar to this in any way, including causing riots for justified police actions, we should all shun that outlet. But now? American media are just as extreme as religious extremists, but society still treats them as legit news sources? Get real. The media has become a new extremist religion, just as bad as bin laden and other extremists. It's time to stop looking at false-facts and innuendo. It's time to hold them all responsible for their bullshit. Nobody wants to be an extremist. But the whole entire world is just as bad as nazi Germany and the KKK. They don't mind following extremist ideology as long as it aligns with their own.

I was trying to read up about the court case. I agree, where was the choice to use the less dense pipe fill?! This was posted 4 years after the case happened, was it made at that time? Or before the case was concluded?

@@Steve-fz4it Discovery. Like I said, I worked the case. BP was WAY behind on the project and any delay to properly do things, even required maintenance, meant several millions of dollars each day would be lost. So they cut corners wherever possible. They had Cameron engineers modify the BOP. They had Transocean cut maintenance. BP asked Halliburton for a cheaper slurry. They cut back centralizers. Hell, they knew THAT NIGHT how to shut the well off completely but they let it bleed for months so they could try less permanant solutions and come back later to produce the well.

That nightmare should have never happened and IMO, was preventable.

right? there are so many details left out. it’s impossible for someone to know all the details, though. my ex girlfriends dad was on this rig and i’m sure his name is in the credits of the movie. his name is chad murray.

I’m sorry, who did you work for? When you say you worked this case, what and who did you work for?

affirmative action

@@BluffCreekStudio lol true

@@BluffCreekStudio racism

It's basically impossible. My bet is someone of the hooked nose tribe in congress took out insurance on this.

yeah some equipment makes money, other equipment just cost money for these companies. f them

Reminds me of Unsolved Mysteries

Remind me Optimus Prime

Yep. I’ve always wondered what people who do the voiceovers for negative political ads do during the “off season.” Now I know...

Next he’s going to do a Smuckers spot.

I like the way he says "blowout preventer".

Allen Moore Carl, or Scooter, put two wires together wrong But the CEO gets the blame.

Invest in your employees and this would not happen

TWO of them were wired wrong, and one known problem (buckling) was ignored.

they should have had the wiring harness designed by Navy engineers to make it sailor proof.

@@ivandaniel2596 Back in the day, the US Army had the toy maker Mattel make the plastic parts of M-16s. They figured if children couldn't break their toys then the Soldiers shouldn't be able to break their weapons.

Why would that matter? It doesn't make it the governments responsibility that everything is in order. No government in the world (including North Korea) has resources enough to police every project or check every detail. If such a state existed, I wouldn't want to live in it. Safety and compliance with regulation is always the responsibility of the entity that's engaged in the activity in question.

​@@henrikjohansson6629 I'm going to guess you don't know about the regulations for drilling and oil/gas production in United States federal waters. When I was working in the GoM no Energy company could drill or produce oil/gas without MMS certifying everything is up to code. If MMS grants a company authorization to begin work it means ALL safety systems have been checked and found operational according to government regulations. If the MMS official did their job correctly. It actually is the governments job to police drilling and production in federal waters in the United States. That is what MMS, Mineral Management Services, did. One of their jobs was to make sure ALL drilling rigs and production platforms were up to Federal code. No Energy company operates in US federal waters without MMS's authorization. The 14 years I worked production in the Gulf of Mexico everyone who worked in production or drilling had to be certified. There was a certification school for Drilling and a separate certification school for Production. Certification was required by law to work in either drilling or production in federal waters in the United States. Getting T2 certification required going to a school and passing the class. IIRC, it was 40hr. class. You had to take the 40hr. class ever 4 years with a one day refresher every 2 years between the 40hr. course. MMS officials were going offshore M-F, weather permitting. They would schedule with the companies what platforms or drilling rigs they were going to inspect. MMS had the power to fine, shutdown drilling and production. They could even have people arrested. After the Deepwater Horizon incident MMS was desolved and 3 new departments were created. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Office of Natural Resources Revenue en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Management_Service

@@DChrls Thank you for that informed answer. You're correct that I don't know much about US regulations concerning oil drilling. While I appreciate that it is a field which is very strictly regulated and subject to a lot of governmental supervision, I'm fairly sure that this doesn't relieve the production company of any of its own responsibility, which was my point. While you clearly know more about oil drilling regulations than me, I do know quite a lot about work in governmental agencies and the modus surrounding that, not in the US but in EU. I work for our equivalent to your SEC. We supervise companies and institutions that are critical to the financial stability of the whole society like big banks, publishers of reference rates, stock markets, etc. Needless to say, we are very thorough and I'd guess that this field is at the very least AS strictly regulated as oil drilling. I'm fairly sure that no government agency in the world could check each nut and bolt in a construction, or know everything that goes on in a company, nor would they ever take responsibility for everything that companies under their supervision does. No matter how strictly regulated a field is, ultimate responsibility for the safety and regulatory compliance of an operation will always remain with the operator. I'm fairly sure it's this way for oil drilling in the US as well, without even knowing anything about it 😉

@@henrikjohansson6629 You are correct the drilling and energy company are culpable. The point I was trying to make is that MMS is culpable as well because they are responsible for making sure all safety systems are operational per regulations. I never heard that mentioned in the media the whole time this was happening or during the trial. Which was my point. The BOP, blowout preventer, is one of the safety systems MMS is responsible for making sure it is functioning properly. It didn't surprise me that they didn't talk about the role MMS played in the incident being we had a Democrat president at the time and our media always goes easy on Democrat politicians. I'm not saying the president or his administration was to blame for what happened. The fault from MMS was an internal problem. It wouldn't have mattered who the president was. The blowout would have still happened. I just hate how the media rarely gives us the complete story. IMO, they don't investigate complicated stories to be able to give us all the information to make an informed conclusion and that is sad. IMO, they don't pursue in depth stories like these for several reasons. One of them is the time/expense to perform a thorough investigation would cut into their bottom line financially.

It’s funny you mention that because Obama complains a lot about MMS in his recent memoir when he’s talking about this disaster

Because the company that made the bop is full of id10t engineers that dont think things through.

You're probably right. I will agree with you there. But when you think about it critically, the untold part of the story most likely amounts to one or more human beings being incompetent and not following some procedure. Entirely possible they are dead now, I don't think beating that dead horse is helpful. If there were other technical early warning systems at fault they should have been covered. Are you aware of any?

@@AlexKidd4Fun I worked for many years as a deep water drill ship OIM... on occasion, there were inappropriate instructions from shore-based supervisors, often driven by cost factors (?), putting risk-based supervisors under severe pressure... such scenarios can result in poor decisions and hasty actions contrary to best practice... Of course, I have no idea if this is the case here, although it doesn't seem to have been discussed...

"rig-based" not "risk-based"...

@@bobsimpson4298 Although it is not covered in this video, poor decisions about the amount of cement to use led to the kick. If everything else had been properly handled, the blow out preventer would not have been needed at all.

The world will never know. And that is tragic.

How about With a multi meter on the rig? I imagine someone is in charge of maintenance as well as tear down and setup of the bop.

Too many

@@Cbow406 contractor used to do ours Cameron or GE/Baker Hughes

Or the crew closing more than 1 safety measure at a time they should shut the very top and the very bottom

Third times the charm like they always say

its like reading fiction

@@odirilweselomane9340 You just can't make this stuff up

2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 failures might make a half correct?

@@sphixion Isn't it more like two wrongs make a right but three failures fucked it all up?

it's sad that unethical people like yourself support this industry

Unapproved unset slurry too

My thoughts exactly. The first line of defense was the mud engineer. Insane to think that every failsafe after even malfunctioned.

Can you answer this for me: wouldn't the use of the first two mechanisms to prevent kick always cause enormous pressure buildup in the pipe, even when used 100% properly and quickly? Or are they meant to be shut off quickly after using them, before the pressure builds?

@@thatfunkyduckThere are usually procedure involved to prevent a hydro-hammer type situations, in most cases drillers on these jobs are very experienced and skilled in well control ans would vent a kick through an accumulator and what they call a bag to moderate the kick form a gas pocket or other unexpected situations. Calculating mud weight is very critical too in preventing such situations. Slamming the the BOP closed under high pressure is rare. I never worked for drilling but I was a platform operator, which requiters knowledge of how it all works and intimate knowledge of well bore behavior

We just want our life back.

Yeah, the insurance company...

safety is of the utmost importance....... as long as it doesn't cost too much money.

Yes sir. We have a schedule to meet. I've worked on construction jobs where safety inspectors constantly patrolled the job site. Any little infraction could get you run off the job. However, whenever something had to be done, that could not be done according to the proper safety protocols in place, the contractors would have an off-the-record discussion with the job site managers. Wink, wink. Then, a crew would be scheduled to work after normal hours & the official safety man was not present. The task would be preformed, nobody injured, & the next day things would be back to normal.

Urbicide and then it turns out that wiring was done wrong and someone gets electrocuted, or a safety harness snaps, new guy inhales arsenic fumes, etc. Internally defeating safety regulations makes for sloppy jobs and dead men. If your employer is losing money by operating by legal standards than you're working for a contractor who cared more about getting a cheap bid than the lives of the guys who work for him. One of the reasons why US labor contractors, particularly construction, are regarded aa shady and looked down on compared to European companies. Everyone likes to joke about the road workers hired by the state, saying that they work 30 minutes a week, but at least they do a safe and clean job, as opposed to contractors that charge a homeowner 30k and knock down a few load bearing walls before they take the money and scram. just as an example.

Stupid and in a hurry. Almost always.

Yeah. Works great. Until it doesn't and someone dies.

One who isn't designing a true "dead man's" switch. They went for multiple redundant active controls instead, because the 'must maintain power' style is too likely to be activated in error/accident - and STILL needs a way to 'Safe' it, when it wouldn't work at all. Depending on a system that is not serviceable in use (water depth etc.) and both was NOT checked out thoroughly & didn't have adequate reporting for current condition (battery states) was a major planning failure IMHO. That part STILL seemed to work by luck, but the actual ram cut off design wasn't robust enough to chop & seal in any conceivable circumstance (off center pipe, high pressures).

I get where your coming from. Maybe a manual explosive type button on the outside the box once triggered would release the ram.

Two issues - 1. It's on the sea floor, can't just walk over to it to trigger the thing. 2. Ram WAS activated - but didn't do the job adequately.

@@rxonmymind8362 why not have a ram that cuts from one side to another rather than meeting in the middle? That would account for off center pipes.

Thats a really bad idea in this application

Maybe working too long of a shift (say 36 hours)?

You don’t hire people who are uneducated or unprofessional tradesmen to undertake jobs like these. These people would have been vetted out with the best qualifications. safety precautions failed

@@Ally-ip4yw if that were the case, the damn thing would have worked

@@joffebisk1446 seeing as I'm the guy who wired the blue pod I can guarantee you it wasn't miswired. A bad engineering schematic, shitty blueprints yes. I built that thing as the instructions said. It's lovely how they protect the big engineers and throw us lowly floor workers under the bus. It's kind of like how they call this the BP oil spill even though it was Halliburton who is in charge of the safety rigging and underwater work. It was Halliburton submarine that failed to cement and ultimately spilled more oil but because BP owned the oil coming out of the well it was called the BP oil spill even though British Petroleum had nothing to do with deepwater horizon or Haliburton. British Petroleum we're just some fucking assholes miles upon miles away and had nothing to do with anything that went on with the rig but for somehow it's the BP oil spill.

@@rivermcratt3683 what do you mean by bad engineering schematic, what was wrong with it? are you saying that the blueprint itself has wrong instructions on how to assemble the BOP?

R.I.P

Super, no bp took their lives...

'gave' their lives? to do what? preventing the distaster? or were pretty much responsible for it, by drilling at regions where they better shouldn't have drilled at all? That is not 'giving their lives' that is just 'died there' If there happened to be an elementary school taht needed to be evacuated before the oilrig actually sank, and these guys stayed on top of it to prevent it from sinking, by buying as much time as possibly, so that little robin and little francine can make it to the life boats, i take everyhing back.

Even though this is wasting my time because obviously you don't understand how drilling works, the 11 men who died, were doing a job, they are no more responsible for what happened there than your mail man for the second gulf war. So maybe show some godamn respect.

Foxi! The ones that lost their lives were not the decision makers that were responsible for this disaster! Blowout preventer was only a part of the reason this happened! Yes the BP ultimately failed but a long list of things led to the blowout!

Driller was under pressure to get the hole finished.......He did not shut the well in and he paid the price! My Subsea buddy was on a rig about a mile away in his bunk when the explosion blew him out of his rack!

@@hubriswonk If you look on Wikipedia, there is a whole list of problems with the Deepwater Horizon that took place over many years. "A confidential survey commissioned by Transocean weeks before the explosion stated that workers were concerned about safety practices and feared reprisals if they reported mistakes or other problems.[28] The survey raised concerns "about poor equipment reliability, which they believed was a result of drilling priorities taking precedence over maintenance." The survey found that "many workers entered fake data to try to circumvent the system. As a result, the company's perception of safety on the rig was distorted" Just about everyone on, in, or involved with that rig is to blame. It's that way in just about every industry. No one cares about maintenance or safety, that costs too much money. (at least in the short term).

I know, right! My only thought while reading these comments: "Thanks Captain Hindsight!"

😂

Well, measures should have been in place to test the blowout rigs before they were sunk into the ocean.

Comment of the year lmaooooo

@nitetrane98 you have won the internet.

It's a mile underwater, there is serious difficulty in powering an electric signal for that kind of distance along what is essentially a rotating heavy drilling pipe to the rig and as we know there is no signal currently except sonar that transmits any kind of distance under water. You would literally need some kind of engineered power generator not only at the seabed but at certain intervals along the pipe to boost signal for an independent data cable. The miss wiring should have been tested beforehand and it probably came down to a manager rushing workers to meet a deadline for the construction. The fact that it doesn't warn you when it was miss-wired has to do with both points above. That being said i don't believe it's impossible if they already have a way to send power down to these two pods a mile under water. It just cost too much time and money than these companies were willing to spend/wait for.

My guess is that BP, wanting to avoid blame claimed it was "miswired" when it's likely the battery probably failed(as they often do, after long periods of sitting) on the sea floor. They bought their sweet old time, and never replaced it because it was too expensive. Equipment like that isn't just "miswired".

Again its the inherent problems first though. No deep sea rig is going to bring up literally every inch of their piping to service the deadmans at the sea floor near the end of the drill pipe. You would have to stop all operations for literally months if not longer. It's an integral part of the structure it's not an add on, and even if it was no robotic deep sea sub in the world would have enough lifting capability currently to manipulate it.

when my 9volts in my smoke alarms get weak, they start chirping. Why didn't they have a chirp-system?

Yes, good questions. I only watched this once, but I believe it would be possible to have low battery warning (and other information as well). Maybe they do but it was not covered here? Maybe, as a redundant system, it is just left invisible and not connected? I don't know about oil rigs, but what was said: 1) The crew can close valves remotely and 2) the deadmans work when there is no electricity and connection to the rig. So there clearly are wirings between the bottom and the rig.

And what have oil companies done to guarantee that other solenoids aren't similarly mis-wired? My guess is that the same person who mis-wired Deepwater Horizon likely mis-wired every solenoid he or she worked on.

chicaneinokc I counldnt agree with you more on that. ET's and electricians on the rigs are making over 6 figures but cant correctly wire a solenoid.

Wired in China.

nope, america.

Everybody knows the USA and Quality electricians are a bad match, it is back in the stone age basically compared to europe.

Love the sound effects especially the magnetic coils with orbiting electrons. No explanation or mention of cement failure that was supposed to seal off the pipe. It was mentioned in other documentaries.

sounds like the guy from "unsolved mysteries" 20 plus years ago, his voice made that show creepy

I shouldn't be alive is where he is from

It reminds me of the Video Disc recordings briefing you on the UAC in Doom3 (voice, cadence and content) ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h6OBeJ6apKeQqYk.html

I swear I heard this guy in free space 2....

None of the people who died on DWH were part of any safety inspection team.

😩

No, not likely the same. Voltage is pressure, not power.

Power plants commonly use 2 volt batteries for the emergency systems that allow a safe shut down in the event outside power is lost. They just use 60 or so of them together. Each one weighs more than a person. Voltage has nothing to do with the size of the battery

@@andrewt.5567 How can a "power" plant lose power jk..

Magnetism is most affected by current not voltage

Sounds like Ric Ocasek farting

They said the same about the twin towers. After the planes crashed, news had several engineers guarantee the public those buildings would never fall, that it was built that way. And they were arguing against people running out the buildings, saying emergency personnel should send people back to their work places so they could reach the floors that needed immediate help.

​@@Andrew-um6ny cus there where bombs inside the twintowers it didnt go down cus of the planes

The downfall of even the most unsinkable ship is usually mistakes by builders and crew.

​@@Robin...222That's demonstrably false. The towers survived the impact of the planes but ultimately fell after the massive jet fuel fire weakened the steel structure beyond the weight above. The method of the destruction is irrelevant. If you believe 9/11 was a conspiracy in 2023, please recognize that it makes _more_ sense that the terrorists were paid off by a nebulous "them" than some physics-defying nonsense debunked by engineers over twenty years ago.

the towers were wired to explode most likely

It basically means that it is very difficult to deal with very high pressures at long distances. Especially when you can not access the device and must rely on instrumentation. There is always something not considered because it has never been seen before. Unfortunately people can not think of everything. The engineers are not lazy. They really do care and the want their stuff to work.

Oil come out. Oil bad.

I bet you understand this: BP EXECUTIVES SHOULD BE IN PRISON

Ted Chaffman .. Watch the movie then come back to this youtube clip... it will ALL make sense once you understand and visually see what happens in the movie. It's a devastatingly brilliant account of what happened and of course extremely sad for the men who lost their lives.

@@babscabs1987 *drools* hehe

Basically a bunch of smart people sit together and start turning ideas into engineering

@@Radec913 And then capitalists men come and mess with the engineering part to "save money" and end up loosing A LOT

We didn't, clearly.

Money, money, money.

@@kim29817 Sit down. It was capitalist men that created it and thank God for that!

Movie was good I remember watching the news and hearing about this well killing so many sea animals and the environmental aspect but I never knew 11 people died that is devastating

@@ryans413 That's because the mainstream media cares much more (yes much much much more) about the sea animals than they do about eleven of your brothers and sisters. The driller, the assistant driller, the derrick hand, and all of the other floor hands that perished in that blowout made no difference to the media. They care about the size of the story.

They didn't feel anything - the ones you need to worry about are the burn injuries - unbelievable levels of pain, I know from personal experience. Although the cold salt water would actually help the pain and possibly reduce (if the water wasn't too dirty) infection.

Yes, but to be fair I often seek out CSB stuff as I work in a chemical plant. I just “love” this stuff but of course full well knowing lives have been lost and countless millions of dollars lost.

Oh yes

Yep

What film? I’d love to watch!

Not me since I don't have a way of viewing film... Plus I have no idea what "film" you are referring to anyway. But this was a big opsy.

BP were pretty miffed as well.

You can make a DC solenoid idiot proof pretty easy by putting a couple of inexpensive diodes on it. So it does not matter what way the polarity is.

Did you wire it?

I would have added a sludgepump too

@@titter3648 I AHTE DIODED! i HATES ALL DIODES!!!

It’s time now ocean needs democracy

actually 210 billion gallons

Imagine learning of this event and focusing on the loss of oil. 🤦‍♂

Flinch Driller is THE man on that rig. Having worked drilling only for a few months (see not trying to be all knowing) had a moment when I was in the middle of unclamping the "claw"(sorry forgot the real word for it) from the pipe when he yelled "get out of there!" Too late I had a hold of the wobbling pipe, didn't hear him and from only six inches the pipe hit my mid section. To give you an idea of a drilling pipe power the wobble that hit me made my FLY ten feet back into the "doghouse" that's on the rig. I woke up with four faces looking over me. Lol. Yes, I had a nasty bruise but was alive. That driller later told me he saw the top wobbling but due to the noise and I was "tunneled vision" I didn't hear him. So partly my fault and said as much. The sups were grateful for my honesty and now physically tap the worker to get out.

Driller had both the authority and responsibility to close BOP immediately, then notify supervisor. And he did, but he was too late in realizing what was happening. Military and airlines call the problem 'situational awareness', which can have a variety of causes.

Years ago I worked for TOI, and know of a damn good driller that got ran off for shutting the well in. Basically the company man wanted him to wait, all the while taking a steady gain in the pits. Well, he said screw it and shut it in, as he should have. Company man pitched a fit to the OIM and got the driller removed. TOI was famous for screwing their people over for the contractor, and BP is famous for trying to tell the well what to do, when it's the well that will tell you what to do. I wasn't there and don't know exactly what happened, but have a fair idea. I was down in Brazil when it happened and three contradictory reports came out in quick succession, non of which made sense, a few more reports and them getting there story together we pretty much knew what happened.

Pay my wife enough and I will go home in a body bag, a oil drum, a Glad Trash Bag......etc Its all about money!!!

The lives lost are irrelevant the damage done to the ocean is a far bigger concern

& this 56 day leak has been dwarfed by a leak that has garnered almost 0 attention b/c there was not an accompanying catastrophic event. Oh well!Don't tell the huggers!

Also oil is not Biotic, it is Abiotic "Not Organic" and comes from deep within the earth created by processes in the magma boundaries that are push upward are constantly being replenished!

who care if its organic that dosent mean its good for 80 percent of living organisms to digest

@@soulsreaper7145: He was joking, poking fun at health nuts.

I’m glad I seen this and in my career I know not to take on a job with so much risk of hurting Mother Earth ecspecially if I know I don’t have a clue what I’m doing but if that is the case I would have never took the job

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Haliburtan was doing the mud drilling at that time. Were they cutting corners and cost like they always do.

Midgetwithahacksaw

Halliburton was doing the cementing ,,MI Swaco was in charge of the mud....

halliburton owned by V P Cheney

It isn't well put together - I've seen at least 3 mistakes and I'm only half way through.

​@@rosiehawtreysuch as?

Mac attack zach do you know what your profile pic is

It’s a black hole

@@sfsengineer7085 ok

Why took 87 days to fix oil spills

They can only guess how much oil under extreme pressure really was released....i would say ALot more than they say..

Nah, they still allow for this faulty system

I don't think you remember it clearly because BP never used "mud from the ocean floor", the drilling mud was displaced with seawater, this is a normal practice to 'underweight' the well- you can't do a neg press test without displacement the mud. And sodium definitely DOES NOT 'destroy seals or electric contacts' that would be exposed to drilling mud because THERE AREN'T ANY electrical contacts exposed to drilling mud. All the electronics are located in the BOP pods- which is always underwater and not exposed to drilling fluid. So displacing the drill mud with water would have zero impact on this. Were mistakes made? Obviously, but you have no clue what you're talking about with 'mud pulled up from the bottom of the ocean floor'. appel.nasa.gov/2011/05/11/aa_4-4_acs_deepwater_horizon_lessons-html/

Hahaha hilarious post. Sand and God knows what else is some how hoovered off the ocean floor, somehow held in whats more more or less a semi submersible boat, then somehow ends up down hole? Or....and engineer can calculate his mud weight and tell hands to dump in x amount of 50lb clay bags into the mud machine. Which one sounds cheaper, more efficient, and PRECISE?

Money talks! So nobody

It’s difficult to send just one or two people to jail when this was the result of a whole string of stupidity and laziness

Bailey Logan then send everyone

@John Goblikon is my spirit animal Right....kill the people who know the system best. Then what, bring in some new college grads and hope they do better? No one learns the lesson better than the person who makes a mess and has to clean it up. Those people were just given a $20 billion training session. It is foolish to be in a huge hurry to fire people for mistakes. A competitor would gladly gobble them right up as they now bring incredible experience.

@@jamiebabie Vidrine and Kaluza were originally charged with manslaughter, however, those charges were dropped in 2015 - criminal negligence and corporate greed is what caused this Deepwater Horizon nightmare to unfold and cost 11 innocent men their lives.

I rather doubt it. Not when I worked for BP in Alaska as an engineer. It is possible, but do you have evidence?

@@specialtymachining They received it before the accident. They had been working for 7 years without any incident that required stopping and loosing money (which would cost at least 42000$/hr ). I just watched a documentary on the accident.

@@MrSidney9 They had been celebrating the accomplishment that day! Bad timing, eh?

Yeah rest in peace

No money compensation will ever replace them... rest in peace...

IMNOTMELVIN.....You want FAKE GOD to BLESS THEM ???? Didn't FAKE GOD KILL THEM ????? Like He KILLED the LITTLE KIDS At SANDYHOOK and all the other MASS KILLINGS. With you people it's Always GOD has a Plan for everyone. Can you Explain to me FAKE GODS PLAN for KILLING THESE LITTLE KIDS....🤔🤔🤔🤔

S Lit As an Atheist, shut the fuck up. Let people believe what they fucking want without your dumbass screeching.

Spirit thank you.

you're an idiot, nothing was cheap there dumbass, go back to flipping burgers and leave the diagnosis to adult engineers.

+Jeremiah John Oh how rich coming from you. They half assed making the rig stable. Nothing was cheap but the fuckers didn't seem to pay much attention to detail and basically skipped all the necessary steps in order to get some "fast money". If you are so "inclined" and "knowledgeable" on engineering, how about you give your feedback and info on this issue rather than comment like a whiny 12 year old.

sure thing bud, I heard they made shitloads of money off this. no I'll continue to call you people idiots because you are, fking use your brain for once you think anyone wanted to risk this happening? damn idiots according to the general public who can barely tie their shoes in the morning there should be no accident ever, such things are only possible due to evil and greed, absolutely pathetic minds.

"cared more about the money than anyone on the rig.." it sounds like you're quoting 'Duhhh!' magazine. Is anyone under the impression that huge global corporations give a shit about anything or anyone more than profits? If you say otherwise, you're kidding yourself.

not having your rigs explode is very good for profit.

Someone had to take the blame if that’s what really happened….most likely the BOP was sabotaged….all tests of the BOP never failed….

Everyone saw it, it was barely 10 years ago

@@jonathanhunt7960 yeah I didnt think I was the 1 nigga wot watched news tbh. Did u see it?

What was your brothers name. Rip

so sorry was he alive

@Sit On My Weenie hey man you don't know that. Have a little respect

Sit On My Weenie ok donald

kilahchris good catch there kilahchris... the dude probably is lying,,

Yes Its obvious we are recieving an altered version of what happened. lots of finger pointing by the white collars.

So you're Mr Know It All who knows more than the USCSB because you worked on an oil rig, and yet you don't bother to address the fact the blind shear ram DIDN'T shear the drill pipe in this instance, causing the entire disaster?

Perhaps you missed the part about how the pipe bent OUT OF THE PROPER PATH of the blind shear ram. It "should have" sheared it no matter what, as you say, had it been more in the right path of the shearing. It damned near did, it "partially" sheared it, so it almost worked like it should have. Go back and watch it again.

@kilahchris Yeah and it is a good point, absolutely.

But some guy who went to college and read some books made a video about something he may have never done first hand. He is an "expert". Where is the respect. Lol

Stroker Ace One guy’s incompetence is everyone’s!

Murphy wasn't just the lawyer, he was also clearly the head engineer and the electrician.

Wtf how old are you, 12? Shit was only 10 years ago