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peristaltorThe oil workers from the Deepwater Horizon rig were held in open water until they signed legal documents.
I mention this because I briefly captained and crewed these crew boats. Few of them are provisioned for long trips away from port. Fewer of them have large holding tanks (though, come to think of it, with oil gushing from the benthic depths, what's a few overboard turds gonna hurt?).
I highly doubt they could have pulled this off without provisioning ships delivering food and supplies and to change out the boat crew. This smacks either of a fabrication or (more likely, IMNSHO) additional costs that could have been applied to the disaster response and clean-up.
Rigs blow up. Accidents happen. This I can accept. The above, though? Unacceptable by any stretch of the imagination. If it proves true, whoever made this call to detain should be imprisoned at the very least and the attorneys who drafted the documents disbarred.
Addendum, The Next Day: It looks like BP has a sordid history when it comes to cost-benefit analysis:
See that little hand-written note just aside the brick house option, the one that says "optimal"? That's a BP executive deciding that shelter substantial enough to protect workers is worth more than the workers the shelter might save. Really. Read the story.
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nebris hath been pointing me to both stories of late.
I mention this because I briefly captained and crewed these crew boats. Few of them are provisioned for long trips away from port. Fewer of them have large holding tanks (though, come to think of it, with oil gushing from the benthic depths, what's a few overboard turds gonna hurt?).
I highly doubt they could have pulled this off without provisioning ships delivering food and supplies and to change out the boat crew. This smacks either of a fabrication or (more likely, IMNSHO) additional costs that could have been applied to the disaster response and clean-up.
Rigs blow up. Accidents happen. This I can accept. The above, though? Unacceptable by any stretch of the imagination. If it proves true, whoever made this call to detain should be imprisoned at the very least and the attorneys who drafted the documents disbarred.
Addendum, The Next Day: It looks like BP has a sordid history when it comes to cost-benefit analysis:
. . . The Daily Beast has obtained a document — displayed below — that goes to the heart of BP procedures, demonstrating that before the company’s previous major disaster—at a moment when the oil giant could choose between cost-savings and greater safety—it selected cost-savings. And BP chose to illustrate that choice, without irony, by invoking the classic Three Little Pigs fairy tale.
See that little hand-written note just aside the brick house option, the one that says "optimal"? That's a BP executive deciding that shelter substantial enough to protect workers is worth more than the workers the shelter might save. Really. Read the story.
nebris hath been pointing me to both stories of late.