Deepwater Horizon should have been able to contain blowout, says NYT report
(NEWSER) - Workers on the exploding Deepwater Horizon were cut down by shrapnel, slammed into walls, and swallowed by fireballs, according to a hellish account of the last minutes of the doomed oil rig in the New York Times today. "Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and dripping in highly combustible gas, crawled inch by inch in pitch darkness, willing themselves to the lifeboat deck," write reporters David Barstow, David Rohde, and Stephanie Saul in an extensive report, gleaned from worker interviews and testimony, maintenance records, and communications. "It was no better there," where searing heat convinced crew members they were going to be "cooked alive." More»
