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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (134260)	6/8/2010 11:08:01 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Respond to of 206223

"It's like being in a never-ending nightmare," Brown said. "You dream about it. You see it in your sleep. Then, we wake up in the morning, and we realize it's not a dream. It's real. ... It doesn't end for us." Sounds like somebody has lived a lucky life of privilege up until recently. Those who routinely work in areas of crisis or in situations of very high risk and stress know this feeling well. The average US soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan works under this level of stress routinely...somehow for Brown it's a completely new experience and he keeps hoping it will end magically. He's actually describing well his paralysis under this degree of stress.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (134260)	6/9/2010 2:39:46 AM
From: Spekulatius	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 206223

>>BP won the argument, said Doug Brown, the rig's chief mechanic. "He basically said, 'Well, this is how it's gonna be.' "<< Hmm, it's still RIG's property and RIG's employees. If they are sure that what BP asks them to do is unsafe, then they should not do it. If I hire a taxi and tell the driver to go 100mph on the highway so I can catch my airplane on time and he does so and crashes the car - is the driver without fault? Seems like not just BP lacks a safety culture but RIG also. I am amazed that most seem to think that BP is solely at fault. Then there is the mystery about the BOP which did not work and as I understand it is operated by RIG not BP. I think RIG is much more likely to go bankrupt over this disaster than BP because as I see it both have shown gross negligence and RIG financial capacity is only 1/10 that of BP.