"SWAT Teams to check all gulf platforms" - Obama (CNN)

The Interior Department said it has assembled a "SWAT team" of inspectors to review safety at offshore drilling rigs across the U.S. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said separately that it has launched a network of monitor systems to evaluate air quality amid concerns that plans to burn off the oil slick in a controlled process could pollute the air.

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A SWAT team of inspectors not the armed normal type sillies!!!



Why not just call them inspectors? They word SAWT brings forth certain thoughts (as it has here and twitter) words are always chosen wisely for a specific affect.



I do agree but I guess it's always best to double check things - took me 2 mins on google!

Nice to see logic and level heads prevail as the case here shows. No link and speculation lead to retardation.


Regardless of what that link said, Obama didn't clarify it (they just played the pertinent part of the speech on BBC radio news), so you get threads like this. I still think they may say this is deliberate regardless of exactly who they send.

And that is speculation on your part not backed up by any facts.

Yeah, but OP heard it.

Who else would search such rigs? Not the freakin boy-scouts. They will need helicopter teams. SWAT makes sense. In any event, there must be some intel or something up to warrant this.


Oh well! If OP heard it then it must be true right?

Safety inspectors would check the rigs! What use would swat teams be?



Exactly. What does SWAT know about oil rig safety???? Like nothing.

Live speech just now.

Why would they do that if this was an accident?

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False Flag Terror Attack



Maybe 'eco-terrorism'. Look for the call to ban drilling. I betcha it was all planned.

False Flag Terror Attack



Maybe 'eco-terrorism'. Look for the call to ban drilling. I betcha it was all planned.



I was thinking the same thing the moment the story broke. About to let companies start drilling then a "mysterious exploding rig"....please

they did this to stop the drilling and/or drive up oil prices.

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Why?

Senator Nelson D Fla. has just called for the "temporary" halt to off shore exploration. Has sent request to Obama.
Just heard here on FOX news.

Bend over, here it comes.

How long until we have a Oil/Gulf Czar?

If someone wanted to take down those other platforms, they would have done it by now.

mexican taliban sunk our platform with box cutters

If I was pres, I'd have Navy Seals checking those rigs underwater for charges.

mexican taliban sunk our platform with box cutters

Could have been any taliban.. ships from all over the world use those ports..

Something sounds fishy here....

and the whole accident is fishy....


pun intended I assume!?

Lol...yes, but not in the sense that there is NOT something amiss.

For this to happen the BOP had to fail...(Blow Out Protector)...this is probably the one piece of equipment that would be called the Alpha dog on a drill rig. It is THE ONE KEY component that would always be monitored to excess, would have tons of redundant systems doing that monitoring, would have it's own redundant systems in and on it, would have a battery of spare parts and support teams to immediately do any repairs if anything did happen to it...and would more or less be treated one of if not THE most critical system on the whole rig 24/7. This is no small system, it's probably 2 stories tall easy. It's also no wimpy piece of a rig...it's very robust and actually fairly simple as to how it operates. Giant hydraulic rams slam big slabs of steel home across the pipe going up and shut it off.Even if there is a drill shaft going across it the rams just snip it off and they are made with a cavity that the snipped off piece rattles off into...THAT happens a whole lot more frequently then any of these things ever fail. There are also at least 2 rams...redundancy...

It's obvious that something caused it's complete failure because the rig exploded AND the well head is spewing full out as we speak.

The question seems to be why the BOP was not activated. In other words, it didn't fail-it's never been activated. So, if that is right, there are two questions. Why didn't the crew onboard the rig activate it? And why didn't the automatic shutoff known as the "Dead Man" switch fail to automatically close the BOP. The BOP itself did not fail. They are trying to close the BOP manually using an arm on a robotic sub.

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READ what was said earlier - this was all a misunderstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​!

The Interior Department said it has assembled a "SWAT team" of inspectors to review safety at offshore drilling rigs across the U.S. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said separately that it has launched a network of monitor systems to evaluate air quality amid concerns that plans to burn off the oil slick in a controlled process could pollute the air.

Link: [link to english.capital.gr]

A SWAT team of inspectors not the armed normal type sillies!!!



Why not just call them inspectors? They word SAWT brings forth certain thoughts (as it has here and twitter) words are always chosen wisely for a specific affect.



I do agree but I guess it's always best to double check things - took me 2 mins on google!

Nice to see logic and level heads prevail as the case here shows. No link and speculation lead to retardation.

Something sounds fishy here....

and the whole accident is fishy....


pun intended I assume!?

Lol...yes, but not in the sense that there is NOT something amiss.

For this to happen the BOP had to fail...(Blow Out Protector)...this is probably the one piece of equipment that would be called the Alpha dog on a drill rig. It is THE ONE KEY component that would always be monitored to excess, would have tons of redundant systems doing that monitoring, would have it's own redundant systems in and on it, would have a battery of spare parts and support teams to immediately do any repairs if anything did happen to it...and would more or less be treated one of if not THE most critical system on the whole rig 24/7. This is no small system, it's probably 2 stories tall easy. It's also no wimpy piece of a rig...it's very robust and actually fairly simple as to how it operates. Giant hydraulic rams slam big slabs of steel home across the pipe going up and shut it off.Even if there is a drill shaft going across it the rams just snip it off and they are made with a cavity that the snipped off piece rattles off into...THAT happens a whole lot more frequently then any of these things ever fail. There are also at least 2 rams...redundancy...

It's obvious that something caused it's complete failure because the rig exploded AND the well head is spewing full out as we speak.

The question seems to be why the BOP was not activated. In other words, it didn't fail-it's never been activated. So, if that is right, there are two questions. Why didn't the crew onboard the rig activate it? And why didn't the automatic shutoff known as the "Dead Man" switch fail to automatically close the BOP. The BOP itself did not fail. They are trying to close the BOP manually using an arm on a robotic sub.

Where are you getting that information from?
I realize that there is a manual close on them, but I assumed since it hadn't been closed yet that it must have been damaged or was not operational for some reason.

Are you saying the BOP was never brought on line?...that would be like the most seriously unheard of breach of operating procedure with absolutely no good reason for I could possibly think of. I would sooner guess that somehow all systems were invaded by alien nanobots and eaten...

I cannot imagine that any person on board that rig wouldn't mutiny or at least scream bloody murder to anyone they could about that...it would be like having a job stacking sacks of raw gunpowder and your boss just told you that you were required to carry a lit torch while doing it....

If you have a credible source to that being stated somewhere I'd sure like to see it.

The Interior Department said it has assembled a "SWAT team" of inspectors to review safety at offshore drilling rigs across the U.S. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said separately that it has launched a network of monitor systems to evaluate air quality amid concerns that plans to burn off the oil slick in a controlled process could pollute the air.

Link: [link to english.capital.gr]

A SWAT team of inspectors not the armed normal type sillies!!!



Why not just call them inspectors? They word SAWT brings forth certain thoughts (as it has here and twitter) words are always chosen wisely for a specific affect.



I do agree but I guess it's always best to double check things - took me 2 mins on google!

Nice to see logic and level heads prevail as the case here shows. No link and speculation lead to retardation.


No - he said SWAT and Department of Defense.

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