the oil disaster showed us exactly what the oil industry means when they say safe. when they keep assuring us that offshore drilling in deep water is so safe now. the big blowout preventer that didn't work in 2001, a trance ocean report shows there could be as many as 260 failure possibilities in that piece of gimt. that's supposed to be the failsafe if all else fails, remember, and it's got 260 different possible fail points. the blowout preventer's hydraulic system did fail, meaning it was inkaleabcapable doing its job. it also has a deadman switch if other systems fail. that switch was hooked up to a dead battery. the engineering diagrams of this blowout preventer, trying to activate it with the robot subs after it failed, the diagrams were completely out of date. the thing had been modified so much it didn't look anything like the plans that they were