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Report: Alarms Were Disabled Before BP Explosion to Allow Workers To Sleep

By jonathanturley

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A new report suggests that warning systems on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were turned off at the time before the explosion because alarms were keeping workers awake. A chief technician for Transocean said that false alarms became bothersome so they disabled the system — before the rig exploded killing 11 people. No alarm sounded [...]

Full post as published by Res ipsa loquitur on July 25, 2010 (boomark / email).

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