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An engineering technician's testimony rocked a federal hearing here in new orleans. the technician work and bp's ruptured well and told the panel investigating the disaster that an alarm system on the transocean rig had been silenced foyer about year before the april explosion. silenced. what's more, he said, supervisors were aware the alarm had been disabled. according to transocean, he's right. in a statement, the company said the disabling was intentional and "conforms to accepted maritime practice." that's because according to transocean, there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alar...