"Be Prepared!" Good motto for Boy Scouts and everyone else! On April 20, the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore rig caught fire. Eleven workers were killed, the rig in a few days was lost and the greatest environmental disaster to date was started. Now, roughly six months later, there are still many questions yet to be answered. What can we say about the calamity? No one in the long chain from well operator, rig operator to company management to government from the Coast Guard to the very top, the President — was prepared for such an enormous tragedy! Easy now to pick blame — point a finger here and there — but the whole system failed from the start of the accident and through most of the period until the broken well's flow was stopped.
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