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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: tonto who wrote (87180)	7/7/2010 3:09:52 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) of 224737

The inspections were not done by the US but independent contractors Cook, who oversees inspection for the Coast Guard, said foreign-flagged vessels operating in U.S. waters meet or exceed international safety guidelines. The Deepwater Horizon was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, a remote archipelago in the Pacific, whose fleet is managed by a Reston, Va., company staffed largely by veterans of the U.S. Coast Guard. Under questioning, Cook said that Coast Guard inspections of U.S.-flagged rigs are more intensive and rigorous than those applied to foreign vessels, like the Deepwater Horizon. In those cases, Cook said, the Coast Guard relies in part on outside companies that submit detailed inspection reports that are then reviewed by the Coast Guard. Cook said the Coast Guard had "some reason to have confidence" in the inspection reports provided by the Marshall Islands, and its contractors, who work under international standards. "To the extent that we can verify the compliance, it was as good a job" as the Coast Guard would have done, Cook said. latimes.com

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