Absolutly. I said this from the start. They sank it spraying it with the fire hoses and filling it up with water. You do not put that much water on a marine fire that water will not stom.
So...this begs the question why the Coast Guard proceeded in a manner that violated their procedures. Whose idea was it?
Just wondering has BP sent any of its ROVs over to video the sunken rig?
YOU think that they SWAMPED the rig , because they were spraying WATER on it. I guess it would have been better to just LET IT BURN, no matter how many WORKERS it killed, because you think the RIG would be STABLE and capable of supporting the 5000' of HEAVY PIPE/CORDS/CABLES/FLOATS. Now, since you would have to put a NEW DRILLING RIG OVER the TOP of the 'PIPE', if we leave the BURNED TO THE WATERLINE RIG there to hold it up, we would have to AIRLIFT the NEW RIG and HOVER it just above the OLD ONE. Do you have some HELICOPTERS big enough to lift and hold a DRILLING RIG SHIP?Besides, the water SPRAYED onto the rig was not what sunk it.
I gotta say, of all the ideas/rumors I have read, yours is among the top 10 of the craziest and totally improbable.
Do they really think so?
This is about the dumbest thing I have seen in a sequence of superlatives in ignorance.
The day this happened we said, “they are going to sink the rig”. How could one expect anything else when the rig was left with hatches open and power out? The water has to go somewhere. It didn’t all turn into steam or go back in the ocean.
Get ready for crippling fuel prices. It will take some time but they are coming, the die is cast. You can’t shut down a factory without running short of inventory some time. Stopping drilling is like shutting down a factory.
Hopefully the bad news will come for these stupid obastards right in the midst of elections and the stupid pubbies will pull off the gloves to use the facts for a change.