(I know where the seawater came from...)
Posted on 07/28/2010 5:15:25 PM PDT by penelopesire
"In the chaotic aftermath of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a poorly orchestrated effort to knock down the towering blaze may have inadvertently led to the sinking of the platform, according to interviews and documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity and shared with ABC News.
As part of an ongoing government investigation, Coast Guard officials are trying to reconstruct the initial response to the rig explosion that unleashed one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. One concern surrounds the use of briny seawater instead of fire-retardant foam to drench the rig. The Coast Guard confirmed that Capt. Hung M. Nguyen, who is heading the investigation, is examining whether the decision to spray salt water across the burning platform overwhelmed the ballasts that kept the rig afloat, changing its weight distribution and causing it to list, and then sink."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
"The Coast Guard's official maritime rescue manual – updated just seven months before the BP accident – recommends Coast Guard personnel avoid participating in firefighting aboard a rig. Instead, the manual requires Coast Guard responders to set up an "Incident Command System" and assign an expert, such as a fire marshal, to lead the efforts to extinguish the blaze."
Hmmmmmm...who ordered this change? Was it an Obama appointee? Inquiring minds want to know.
PING to post #1.
7 Months before explosion, the Coast Guard’s official rescue maritime rescue manual was changed. WHY?
“The Coast Guard’s official maritime rescue manual – updated just seven months before the BP accident...”
No way around this one, lefties...NOT bush’s fault...GASP...
There were people on the burning structure,,firefighters try to put out fires,, I often wonder if the 11 missing are living in the lap of luxrey now with a pay off from ObamaSquad to sink and cause the leak,, I DO NOT TRUST MY GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets see now , , , if you put enough water inside the boat it will continue to float. Right. On the other hand, what is the first thing you do not do for a grease/oil fire? I know, I know, you put water on it! Sheesh.
Nor do I, NOT ONE LITTLE BIT!!!!
is Ross a journolista?
just wondering......
A stupid mistake or capitalize for Cap and Trade?
(I know where the seawater came from...)
Ping to Lib Lie Slayer and to WKB
Hell, the local greasy spoon down the street has to have one over the grill in case my burger blows up, why not on the rig?
Good question. This whole change sounds like typical leftist crap to me(form a committee to study the rig while it’s burning kind of stuff...lol). Instead of being prepared to fight a rig fire, they were instructed to set up a command center? WTH? I would really like to get to the bottom of this little ditty buried in the ABC article. Why was the manual changed? What was it before? Who changed it and why? Has the Coast Guard always been in charge of fighting rig fires until Obama and the morons took office? If so, where was all the equipment? Why didn’t they have firefighting equipment stationed in the gulf or do they? What does the Oil Spill Act say about rig fires? What did it say before Obama and the morons took office? What else have they changed at the Coast Guard that we don’t know about?
I don’t trust our government either anymore. Obama has had access to the Oil Spill Trust Fund all of this time and yet he hasn’t tapped it to my knowledge. He could have been helping the people on the gulf immediately and hit BP up for payback later..but he didn’t do it. He has this 20 Billion dollar slush fund set up now, yet all of a sudden the money is not getting to the people the way it was before the government took over. THIS WHOLE THING STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN!
Have they stolen all of that money too?
Modern rigs have computerized loading and stability software
programs on board, some software is better than others.
Also, these programs have “damage stability” calculation ability to quickly diagnose a “custom” situation such as this and determine what steps to take. TransOcean, owner
of the rig, had this software on the rig and should have had this shoreside at their headquarters ready to run. And there are
experts in Naval Architecture who can advise TransOcean or the USCG what steps to take quickly, knowledge and the beauty of the computer. Did it have to sink, probably not and was that a good thing?
Moving forward a correct version of the loading and damage stability program needs to be on file with the USCG and someone needs to run it on a moments notice.
After BP is hung for their actions the nav/arch damage stability response should be investigated.
deeptrout
Excellent point! We really should ‘drill’ down into this little ditty though and find out why the manual was changed and who did it.
Let’s be glad that the rig didn’t settle on top of the BOP like Ixtox did, which is what pretty much doomed that well from the beginning. Now that Macondo had been shut off, and there is nothing gushing in the GOM any more, the gushing will continue in the blogosphere for years to come...
“After BP is hung for their actions the nav/arch damage stability response should be investigated.”
Thanks for the info. I’d like to see Obama and his whole administration ‘hung’ for their response to this oil spill as well! It’s been an unmitigated disaster!
I’d just like to see Obama and his merry band of marxists and incompetent bureaucrats truly investigated too. So far his response has been a disaster and as usual ‘the ruling class’ never has to answer for their own screw ups. Obama’s commission is a joke! I’ve been watching them on CSPAN and it’s truly pathetic. Not one industry expert on the entire panel. Just a bunch of marxist greenies and progressives that don’t know squat about energy or it’s national security importance.
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