On 2010-12-30, Jon Elson wrote:
On 12/27/2010 03:04 PM, Ignoramus7943 wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us...pagewanted=all

Wow, that was quite good! it was pretty amazing to see how ineffective
all the people who SHOULD have responded were. Expecially the Diesel
operators, who should have known what was going on, but failed to shut
them down until they exploded. The overspeeding Diesel generators may
have olver-volted critical electrical equipment and caused some other
safety gear to fail to function. Of course, if they didn't have a
compression release on those engines, or a very tight air cutoff, there
would have been no way to shut them down. Cutting off fuel is
ineffective if the intake air is combustible. You'd think, however,
that a drilling platform would be designed with this possibility in mind.

Thanks for the link!

Yes, my mind boggles to think that an alarm was not sounded for a long
time, just because the girl operator was mentally paralyzed and did
not do her job.

The diesel controls, too, clearly were not properly designed to stop
them when overspeeding.

Generally, the platform does not seem to be well designed.

i