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To: tejek who wrote (569488)	6/1/2010 9:53:01 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 1577828

"..a safeguard that might have prevented this disaster." No, actually it wouldn't have. The BOP stack was damaged, leaking hydraulic fluid. Reports have also indicated the battery was dead. So once power was interrupted from the platform, there was no way the BOP could be triggered. Which is probably why the deadman switch failed. Which isn't to say that acoustic triggers are a bad idea. They just wouldn't have helped in this particular situation.

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