They should have let it burn... they sank the rig with the water they

[HysteryDiagnosis]

poured on it... ran into the pontoons I think.... there was nothing to save... and then they sunk it.. pity that.

[PearliePoo2]

1. really? Good point!

well, if so, here's a case of the "fix" being worse than the problem.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Slate article

http://www.slate.com/id/2253193


Here's what we know for sure about the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: On April 20, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 people onboard; 36 hours later, it sank into the ocean. Investigations are under way to determine the cause of the accident and how it might have been prevented. So far, these have focused on what caused the explosion in the first place (was it a bad cementing job by Halliburton?) and what caused a blowout preventer safety device to fail. But it may be just as important to figure out why the oil rig capsized and sank beneath the waves. This latter event may have turned a manageable disaster into a full-scale catastrophe.


In the first hours after the explosion, most of the spilled oil was burning off in the fire, and the initial damage estimates were small. But when the Deepwater Horizon turned over on its 400-foot pontoons, the mile-long pipe that connected it to the underwater wellhead collapsed like a mess of spaghetti. Now the oil is leaking from this jumbled steel on the ocean floor at two sites where the pipe buckled and broke. If the first rescue crews on the scene had somehow been able to prevent the rig from sinking, they might have disconnected the pipe safely and capped it near the surface.

[PJPhreak]

3. Number 1 Rule of Ocean Firefighting...

Do Not Sink The Ship!!!!

Edit to add: It is my personal belief that BP sank the Deepwater Horizon on purpose,They did not want the Investagators to get their hands on all the evidence...Disk Drives,Graphs,Ship-to Shore uplink records Ect.

[BeFree]

4. Should have kept it floating

The oil was coming right up the pipe and burning off.

Besides the first rule of ship firefighting as in the post above, is that you do not use water to put out an oil fire. You use a special foam to fight oil fires.

So the firefighters made two colossal mistakes, and the rig sank, and the oil is flowing freely.

WTF?

[Scuba]

5. Much evidence is now 5,000 feet under the surface. Hmmmmm.

[BeFree]

6. Arson?

Would BP go so far as to commit arson?