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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (570082)6/3/2010 11:16:23 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1579772
 

While I read everything about what happened prior to the explosion with a jaundiced eye, last nite, AC 360 had on the show the wife of one of the rig workers who got killed. She said her husband was home just before the explosiion and he acted very peculiarly. Suddenly, he had this urgency to get a will drawn up [he was 35] and went through the house explaining how things worked and then showing how Transocean was liable should he die at the site. I don't know if he had a premonition of death, or if things were being run so badly at the rig, but her whole conversation was eerie to say the least.

Surely, you attach no significance to an anecdote like this. It may or may not be true. The guy may have just been negligent previously and realized he was in a very dangerous line of work (which he was). There could be 100 reasons why something like this happened, none of which related to operations on the rig.

If you get a chance, you might look at the NATGEO program on days beginning with the explosion/fire. While extremely informative, probably the most important point that comes through is that these fires and explosions happen with great enough frequency that there are a good number of companies who specialize in putting them out.
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