Chris Friesen wrote:
On 05/03/2010 12:39 PM, Morris Dovey wrote:
On 5/3/2010 12:55 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:

Unless the blowout preventer itself was blown up by a bomb, it
should have been designed to fail safe.

"When a failsafe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe."

True enough...but I still think it should have been able to handle the
loss of the rig above.


Perhaps the BOP was not "self aware" and depended upon instructions from the
surface?

If so, maybe the instructions never got to the BOP.