Charlie wrote:
"mm" wrote in message
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OT BP again

So they capped the pipe.

Where was this cap for the last 89 days? Why don't they have three
of them or more, at least one on each continent where they have
off-shore wells?

This cap was made to order to fit the application

Why was every procedured they did reported with the caveat, This has
never been done before. Why not?

That's the trouble with this deep well. There has never been an event
quite like this one.


Why haden't they tested all the procedures and devices when they
first started underwater drilling, again when ty started deep water
drilling, and again every time a new procedure or device was
developed?

The he first blow-out protector was tested and failed some of the
tests. They used it anyway. Probably a combination of greed and
incompetence.

A rule from the book "Systemantics":

"A Fail-Safe system will always fail by failing to fail safe"