[SeekAndFind]

So much talk about the oil slick, but I read in vain anywhere to find out HOW the spill started in the first place.

Several people called talk shows like Michael Savage and Mark Levin last Friday, a lot of them oil rig workers and engineers. To a man, most of them suspect sabotage. These rigs are designed to be redundant systems to prevent accidents like these and the occurrence of something of this magnitude is highly unlikely unless it is by design, so they say.

[trumandogz]

‘To a man, most of them suspect sabotage.”

Nonsense.

[CajunConservative]

There was a massive explosion where 11 people were killed. The rig was on fire for 3 days when it sank.

Here’s a first hand account of the explosion.

http://www.mudinmyblood.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6104

http://topics.nola.com/tag/oil-spill-gulf-of-mexico-2010/index-11.html

[MuttTheHoople]

There are forces under the earth that make a mockery of man's arrogance. More than likely, the mud engineer underestimated the gas bubble coming up, and coming up from 5000 feet below sea level and drilling 18,000 below that, it simply may have been too much for the BOP and mud to handle.

What I'm afraid of is that Obama may use this as his Oklahoma City bombing moment, to somehow blame the Republicans' for it and get a big comeback in the polls.

[KosmicKitty]

So much talk about the oil slick, but I read in vain anywhere to find out HOW the spill started in the first place.

My lib friend's are blaming BP. Say they intentionally failed to monitor the rig, knew it was unsafe & failed to do anything about it, yadda-yadda.

For them, nothing is going to stick to BO

[deport]

The stars only have to align once for an event of this magnitude to occur. Slim chance maybe but someone wins the lottories every once in a while.

ROBERT, La. - A robotic arm of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
attempts to activate the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventor (BOP),
Thursday, April 22, 2010. In addition to the use of ROVs, the unified
command is mobilizing the Development Driller III, a drilling rig
that is expected to arrive Monday to prepare for relief well-drilling
operations, to stop the flow of oil that has been estimated at leaking up to
1,000 barrels/42,000 gallons a day.

The Hayride

A good source for running info on a daily basis regarding the Deepwater Horizon event.