Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100513:22:04:00
Series of equipment and operational failures if the largest oil and oil service companies in the world had been more careful, 11 lives might have been saved and our coastlines protected. >> what specific equipment and operational failures did investigators find? there were four known problems with the blowout preventer, which was supposed to be the fail-safe to cut off the flow of oil and gas. part of the prevention process is literally to cut the cord with the drill pipe. but the shears were only strong enough to cut through the pipe, not the joints that connect to the pieces of the pipe toge...
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