Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Offshore well blowout preventer was supposed to be fail-safe

The DMN's Jim Landers explains:

At the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a 40-foot-high stack of steel holding multiple hydraulic valves designed to cap a well before it turns into a gusher.

It's supposed to be fail-safe.
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