Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
That's not what the 60 Minutes report concludes.
The problems with the blowout preventer could possibly be laid to
incompetence, but that would have been recoverable if BP hadn't been
pushing for speed all the way down the line.
As I read it, there was some bad luck, there were some things that
didn't work out right, but it was the overarching demand to go faster
that exacerbated everything and ultimately blew it up into a disaster. . . .
That's what I meant by incompetence. They made it a rush job and
ignored the fact that the blowout preventer gasket had been shredded.
Those are incredibly stupid things to do.
What I meant was, this was not caused by a design flaw, or by subtle
problems than an expert might fail to notice. When they saw pieces of
rubber from the blowout preventer coming up with the mud, and they
saw that one of the controllers was dead, they should have stopped
right there and fixed the equipment.
- Jed
