this is the sort of story that just makes you shake your head in bewilderment…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/23/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-alarms
apparently the transocean employees turned off the alarms on the oil rig so they could sleep better.
a thought: maybe it’s not such a good idea to let the people who built and run the oil wells to also be the ones
who regulate and police the oil wells?
alarms that could’ve prevented the whole bp oil spill turned off because they were inconvenient.
and this quote doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the oil industry:
‘Williams also revealed that a crucial safety device, designed to shut down the drill shack in the case of dangerous gas levels being detected, had been disabled, or bypassed as it is called.
When he saw that the system had been bypassed, Williams protested to a Transocean supervisor, Mark Hay, who dismissed his concerns. Hay responded: “Damn thing been in bypass for five years. Matter of fact, the entire [Transocean] fleet runs them in bypass.”‘
moby