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60 Minutes Oil Spill
By Jerry Reth Filed in US News on May 18, 2010
60 Minutes Oil Spill – 60 minutes recently held a special that dealt with the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the potential consequences that the spill could have on wildlife and other populations in the area. They also covered the political aspect behind the spill, and how the spill should be dealt with along with how the spill could affect American politics in the forseeable future. The special also featured a survivor from the Deep Horizon rig explosion named Mike Williams. A number of different incident’ took place, and things went wrong leading to the rig explosion. There were a number of procedures for how to deal with the problems that were happening, but those procedures were not followed by the crew on the Deep Horizon.
Williams only had a life jacket at his disposal when he decided to jump ten stories from the top of the rig as it burned out of control. He described the incident with the blowout preventer that happened in the days leading up to the disaster. He said that the deck of the rig had several pieces fall off of it. He went on to say that both BP and Deep Horizon were aware that the problems were present, and did nothing to prevent the issue.
On the day of the accident, there was also a reported disagreement between the Transocean manager and a BP employee about how they should go about finishing the well. The BP employee thought that they could save some time and money because they were already overbudget at the time.
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