Engineer: Deepwater Horizon Alarm 'Inhibited'

The chief engineer on the Deepwater Horizon tells a government panel that warning systems on the drilling rig were inhibited because the crew did not want to be disturbed in the middle of the night. (July 23)

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[MARSTEC1]

Thr rig was rigged...

[workwillfreeyou]

The government working with the corporate elite have systematically disregarded all worker safety and environmental concerns. Any employee that voices a complaint will be either fired or punished. The Federal government and courts back them up on this every step of the way. I'm speaking from 1st hand experience. Anybody that believes the alarms where turned off to protect the workers sleep are delusional.

[ProSysCEO]

This is why a good alarm shelving program is important. We have two products that handle this. Alarm Dynamics' SAM for Honeywell TDC3000 and TPS systems and AgileOps List Management for any OPC accessible platform. Our website should be on my profile.

[democratichypocrit]

@MARSTEC1 The alarm was not the cause, unless of course u want 2 believe that. The biggest cause of alarms sounding at night is not because of gas but because of a fault n the system. Just like a driller silencing the flow show alarm & the well starts kicking yet he doesnt notice it because his audible alarms r silenced. In actuality the flow show alarm being disabled is more a possible cause than the gas alarms. u MUST show an increase in flow BEFORE the gas gets 2 surface.

[SinisterDexter1]

Unbelieveable! The general alarm had been inhibited for a year! This is a very very serious breach of safety, because the rig can be on fire and it requires someone to manually set of the alarm (which tells people to go to a safe muster location). It underlines the lack of respect for safety and safety systems....

[TheAgentEnigma]

The morel of the story is never point fingers until all the facts are in. In other words never contract out to crappy engineering and shoddy risk assessment like the US company Transocean.

More US company failings to come.

[kinky69ing]

@witecracker2 2012.....

[LYinKansas]

This could change everything, make sure that dude doesn't mysteriously die!!!!!!

[HemiHead66]

Ahh, they're all a bunch of lying crooks. This is what happens when growth, stock-price and bonus are priority one. It's why our healthcare sucks. The fuckers would rather see you dead than miss analysts earnings estimates for the quarter. It's why these drug companies keep putting out shit that kills ya. Almost everything they put out does more harm than good. And that "in the pocket' FDA keeps approving their toxic shit. Crony Capitalism at it's best. Every industry has its own criminal niche.

[Asymmatrix]

Uh oh... sounds like BP is going to blame the workers for the spill...

[MrYoubrian]

@BrotherJosephSkinner Standard operating procedures--The U.S.Navy announces "this is not a drill" for over 6 decades. That is actually normal.

Too many drills and people get complacent. Hear "this is not a drill!" one time and it tends to put the fear of God in you because like on a naval ship there is nowhere to run.

[teapartyman]

The oil spill is tiny compared to all the red tape that the white house is spilling all over this country...