Bottom of story, with video. They won't forget that trip,,,,,,

Fishing Trip of a Lifetime! - MudInMyBlood Forums (http://www.mudinmyblood.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6104)

tks for first hand account....tell me why the engineers did not include a "air sampler" that sniffs out flamable/explosive gases?? and disconnects the backup generator??.......and...at the ocean floor some type of shutoff valve that provides an automatic shutdown of oil flow???-if the surface rig is compromised??(been to the moon.......can't figure out these two items??).............

trapper: Here's the most technical account I've been able to find. The media reports just keep doing meaningless sound bites :-P
Transocean Deepwater Horizon Explosion-A Discussion of What Actually Happened? - Drilling Ahead (http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/transocean-deepwater-horizon-1)
The auto shutoff valve failed and the bubble came up so fast, I'll bet the generators couldn't be shut off...

Bottom of story, with video. They won't forget that trip,,,,,,

Fishing Trip of a Lifetime! - MudInMyBlood Forums (http://www.mudinmyblood.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6104)

Interesting read. Most (sane) people might not have left the dock that day.

tks for first hand account....tell me why the engineers did not include a "air sampler" that sniffs out flamable/explosive gases?? and disconnects the backup generator??.......and...at the ocean floor some type of shutoff valve that provides an automatic shutdown of oil flow???-if the surface rig is compromised??(been to the moon.......can't figure out these two items??).............

Read Ken's link below.

trapper: Here's the most technical account I've been able to find. The media reports just keep doing meaningless sound bites :-P
Transocean Deepwater Horizon Explosion-A Discussion of What Actually Happened? - Drilling Ahead (http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/transocean-deepwater-horizon-1)
The auto shutoff valve failed and the bubble came up so fast, I'll bet the generators couldn't be shut off...

Well worth the read - thanks!

tks for first hand account....tell me why the engineers did not include a "air sampler" that sniffs out flamable/explosive gases?? and disconnects the backup generator??.......and...at the ocean floor some type of shutoff valve that provides an automatic shutdown of oil flow???-if the surface rig is compromised??(been to the moon.......can't figure out these two items??).............

not choosing sides here but believe it or not it harder to work on the bottom of the ocean than in space

A bit more...I'm more interested in what technically happened rather than the politics and blame game that eventually will follow :-P
What went wrong at oil rig? A lot, probers find - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100512/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill)
Bad maintenance procedures...ugly things happen in inner space when that happens...

.......thanks for tech updates,,,,,,,,,,,,