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Acrimony Behind the Scenes of Gulf Oil Spill

New York Times This article is by Clifford Krauss, Henry Fountain and John M. Broder. -- HOUSTON — Richard Lynch was walking down the hall in BP’s crisis command center in early May when some engineers rushed up, bearing bad news.

“We’ve lost the cofferdam,” they said.

In fact the cofferdam, a 100-ton, four-story-high steel dome that the company had lowered to try to contain the flow of oil from its out-of-control well, had become clogged with icelike crystals and was rising in the water, full of flammable gas and oil.

“I said: ‘What the hell do you mean you’ve lost the cofferdam? How did you lose it? Don’t give me that!’ ” Mr. Lynch, a BP vice president and a leader of the effort to kill the well, recalled. “This thing has taken off like a damn balloon.”

Had the dome hit one of the work ships, another inferno like the one that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon d


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They were doing it amidst total panic.
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Why hadn't BP developed and tested recent (within 3 years) methods of capturing oil this deep down (miles)?
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And they expected a failed "technique", last tried 30+ years prior, at only 150' of water depth, to work?
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What a way to spend the summer...
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That's how the saga started!!
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One of the best things about this country is that truth will prevail.
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