[Tarpon]

It's really strange because the top of the drill rig platform itself was initially burning.

Here is what I am talking about

It looks jacked up in operating position ... and early news accounts said the missing were from the control room. The fire looks containable at this point ... But even still, you would think the wellhead safety system would have been already deployed.

[thackney]

That picture is not the Deep Horizon. There are no Jackup Rigs with mile tall legs.