Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110325:01:05:00
It essentially seals up the well and holds all of that pressure in. if the blowout preventer does not work, you get this. you get disaster. disaster not just for the environment but for the crew that's stationed on top of that malnunksing oil rig. 11 yew members were killed when the deepwater horizon oil rig blew in the gulf of mexico. soon after that explosion and the historic oil spill that followed it was pretty obvious that the blowout preventer had failed to prevent that blowout. that was pretty clear. but what we know now, what we have learned this week in fact is that the blowout preven...
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