I am told that skipping the mudd satge and going stright to the sea water filler has been done many many times and without a blowout, because the depth pressure at 5000 feet deep is so great. This particular well hit a pocket of gas-heavy crude under much greater than average pressures for deep wells. ... But the reason ofr precautions and step-by-step procedures is to avoid just such ‘man-made’ disasters as this one. [As ex.: airliners have a list of things they are reguired to check prior to takeoff. Skipping parts of the list isn’t going to be disaterous every time, but it only takes one mechanical failure which could have been predicted via the check list ...]
“Did you plug the hole Daddy?”