I have trawled the web in my attempts to understand and make sense of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak disaster. I still do not understand it and I would like more information to help me to understand it. As a Mechanical Engineer I feel professional shame. Engineers learn from disasters and it will be very important to learn all possible lessons from this one.
The original explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon platform cost human lives. It would not be acceptable to continue such operations in the same manner until the mechanisms involved in this disaster are understood and appropriate measures can be taken to address them and assure the safety of personnel when there is a sudden major surge of methane gas.
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