2010: Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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- A survivor recalls his harrowing escape; plus, a former BP insider warns of another potential disaster
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Mike Williams.. An ordinary name, an ordinary man, capable of extraordinary things.. God bless you and your family..
Real hero
Yes. He had me in tears, bless his heart, and bravery.😢😑😟💖
If you think about it, WW2 was won by ordinary men doing extraordinary things.
True Indeed.... 👍🙏
It always starts with an incompetent supervisor..
Comrade Anatoly Dyatlov has entered the building...
Chernobyl .
Reactor #4 - Chernobyl.
As well as a stupid politician.
You're right, fish rot from the head down.
Don't forget the 11 Men who did not make it home to their love ones.
Jason C. Anderson, age 35
Aaron Dale Burkeen, 37
Donald Clark, 49
Stephen Ray Curtis, 39
Gordon L. Jones, 28
Roy Wyatt Kemp, 27
Karl D. Kleppinger, Jr., 38
Keith Blair Manuel, 56
Dewey A. Revette, 48
Shane M. Roshto, 22
Adam Weise, 24
May they Rest In Peace🙏🏾
I don't think they ever found the bodies either. Meaning, they were incinerated. Very sad.
RIP dad miss you everyday
@@DR.DisInfect may the good spirit be with you
@@DR.DisInfect I’m so sorry for your loss 😔
I bet you BP didn’t want mike to survive and that’s a fact
You know it
Yhhvkbv
You can't bet and use fact at same sentence.
@@yesnoyeswait4306 right 😂
Crazy
I salute that man Mike Williams . Top worker, team player, leader
*tries to save $2 Million in doing so cost $60 billion
Eric Cartman greed makes you blind
way more than that
Welcome to the world of corporate decision making.
Well they saved on the manager bonuses.
Timmy!!!
let this be a lesson to all major companies. IF YOU THINK SAFETY IS EXPENSIVE TRY AN ACCIDENT
LOL. If you look at your president now, you will disagree. You hate him for two reasons, most likely. One, he's a Democrat. Two, he's Black.
they dont care. itll keep happening
They know this. It works for them in large numbers even if it kills men and the environment. It’s like when Ford calculates how much customer’s deaths would cost the company versus a recall.
Until they put top level executives in jail for getting their workers killed with no regard this won’t stop.
Dont sit by the tail gate. It could fall open lol. BOOM!!!
Can we all just appreciate this as an excellent work of journalism
The interviews about the disaster itself are good quality, but an awkward truth has come out since then... There's no real evidence of a problem with Atlantis. A court looked at it all pretty carefully, the judge threw it out, and the rig has operated normally and successfully for 12 years.
I'd appreciate your silence and lack of like fishing regarding a serious subject more. This isn't very excellent btw.
To a point.
Who ever f**ked up the editing/audio mixing part way through should be fired - you can hear 2 sets of people talking at the same time and neither are fully legible because of it.
Did they even watch this before rendering it out?
FFS, lazy work.
🐂💩
Almost 100 years later, this was the Titanic of the 2010's that happened for all the same reasons: speed, overconfidence in modern technology, trying to out-perform the competition and pure greed.
And almost a decade later you have the MCAS system on those 737 Max 9 aircrafts. Corporate greed and arrogance.
"THERES RUBBER AAND OUR SAFETY THINGS ARE GONE!"
Supervisor: ah its fine nothing will happen stop being a chicken
Unusuals alot of workers on that rig now not only refuse to work on another rig but refuse to go out to sea altogether.
It is heroic to relive these hardest moments of his life to tell the story, opening up so much.
As a resident of Biloxi, I can say that the Gulf is still ruined. It will be for a million life times.
Seriously? Ten years later you still notice a difference?
@@timgiglio9457 Yes. No salt in the water. No ocrSn smell. Flesh eating bacteria on the sand and in the water. Seafood unsafe to eat. Ocean looks like McDonalds tea. It looks like what 3 months of oil pumped into water looks like. It’s down to Texas and around to Florida.
@@shelleybarnard5648 Thats utterly horrific. The sheer amount of poison gushed into the ocean there is unfathomable.
@@shelleybarnard5648 sorry but this is completely untrue. I live on the Gulf Coast
@@jheltz4 She's probably a vegan or something. All that lack of iron and b12 has made her lose her senses.
Dude, I'm so sorry you went through all that trauma and fear. Even though you've recovered physically, make sure you also recover emotionally. What you experienced can cause PTSD and no one should have to live with that.
Who are you talking to?
I remember being at my doctors office, across the street from Terrebonne General Medical Center, when I heard the helicopters started coming into the hospital with the injured from the rig.
You’ll never forget it either!! When I was about 12 years old, a Delta Airliner went down in North West Georgia in a severe thunderstorm ⛈ and I can remember all the emergency 🚨vehicles
(police 🚔 ,fire trucks 🚒 and ambulances 🚑) going on and on for ever!!!! Being the mid to late 1970’s there wasn’t any of the technology we have now and it was a rural area back then as well, so they had to come from all the surrounding countries as well!!! It’s amazing how our brains 🧠compartmentalize certain memories according to how the experience made you feel emotionally!!! I didn’t go to the crash sight to help of course but I remember my Daddy, Uncles and Grandfathers being upset for awhile from dealing with the loss of life!!! Fortunately half of the passengers survived, but it was a horrible situation no matter what especially when a couple of children are in the wreckage!!!
oh really i live in thibodaux,i guess they do have world class medicine close to home
Every executive in BP should be in prison. PERIOD
lol why
@@jaredweston6235 good luck proving that in the court of law
@@jaredweston6235 nice argument
I wouldn’t say PRISON.
After all, as Trading Places proved, the way you punish rich people is by turning them into poor people. As far as I can tell, all the bad press and lawsuits and refits cost BP millions, they’re still far from poor but they, at least for the time being, seemed to have learned their lesson
Jack Mitchelles i agree
Pressure to satisfy Investors is exactly why safety is often neglected.
GREED!
capitalism = greed at any cost
@Yoo Wat you have no idea what are you talking about. no sense of how the word runs today. if every country is capitalist then they would be greedy.
@Yoo Wat nope you are wrong there. you have not live long enough to know the difference. i see you are very unexperience with politics and with the nature of man.
Nailed it. Greed is at the core of almost all human suffering...
Bp should never be allowed to drill ever again. All this was preventable
Nuclear ftw!!!
For those who say no more drilling: Where do you think your gasoline, motor oil, tires and all those plastic thingies, including your phone and laptop, in your house come from?
Answer: Deep drilled OIL WELLS!!!
Wow... I saw the movie and it was so emotional. Watching Michael speak again about it is very emotional as well. RIP to all those who lost their lives on that fateful day. Greed and corruption caused so much tragedy 😢
It was Emotional for me as well... Even Alot of Low Vibrational Comments were peeving me off...
@@CatLover-23 Same here. We're 2 peas in a pod, my fellow cat lover ❤️ 🐈 😻 🐈⬛️ 😺 I have two felines.
@@ladyyaya78 👍🐈👍
I was working at the BP Whiting refinery when this happened. The shortcuts they use to save money is mind blowing. BP talks a big game about safety, but reality is they only want to save money.
Question is if you're willing to make 15% less to have a more secure work environment...
@@Gonken88yup profit before safety worked out really well didn't it?
@@ninjajunior4422 As you can see OP didn't reply = no.
Having worked for BP many years ago they had a very high safety standard I use to joke that you'd have earplugs so you couldn't hear anything, safety glasses that would be covered in crude so you couldn't see anything and you couldn't do any work with out permits loads of permits so the fireproof overalls had every pocket stuffed with paper 😂
They turned into a different company after John Brown took over as CEO. In the 90’s they purchased multiple other oil companies and expanded their operations which lead to a total neglect of safety regulations. They had 3 major accidents occur within 5 years: Texas City plant explosion in 2005 that killed 15 ppl, 2006 Alaskan oil spill, and 2010 Deepwater.
I love you Mike Williams! I’m so glad for you and your family that God wanted you to be here on earth. You have and will do exceptional things to bring to us. Blessings on you Sir!
Wow, the movie is right on! Didnt know it was this accurate.
This man is a true hero. The fear must have been uncharted. He's lost the use of a arm and a leg, and is nearly blind from a gash to his forehead. I can tell you in that moment, the last thing I'd say is,"no, I've got responsibilities.'
As a Floridian I haven't shopped or purchased gas from a bp since the incident. The multiple bps in my town dwindled down to zero within a cpl years.
Mike Williams is a genuine guy, god bless him
It's all about the money.
@Marissa Gomez-Davis no, I am not I'm an American
That's what capitalism is all about.
And always will be ..Greed
Doesn’t take a genius to see the common thread in all such instances: profits ahead of safety and appeasing the shareholder bosses. It’s OK until it isn’t!
This is part of the reason why I never fill up at BP or it’s affiliates
I love what I do when I’m offshore but we do take a risk when we are out there.
And for an industry that only works for their own greed...
Coming from a lifetime of a husband who’s whole life was oilfield. The movie was spot on. If you pay attention. Both sides, parties, did they very best that they could without realizing what the actual problem was.
There were pieces of rubber bits being dredged up on to the deck..They knew..
Remember that nobody from BP ever went to jail. Nobody. It's only a matter of time before BP does this again.
Challenger, seal will fail in the temps...go ahead and takeoff....
Deep Horizon, damaged seal...no problem. work double time!!!!
@Aditi Gopikrishna money and stupidity seem to be the issue at hand.....
TheDBCooperforum, You are correct. I'm an old ruffneck & that's exactly how it work's...
Omfg ... so right ... ugh
The Peter Berg film on this is major-underrated...
8:11 Two simultaneous audio tracks.
What a crime to call this a spill. Sick
Amazing that I didn't hear about the 11 men who died. Until I watched the movie yesterday. NZ here.
My family has stopped using BP.
Sometimes trying to take shortcuts to get home you end up taking the long way home an dealing with a bunch of problems!
So all that time you were trying to save you really ended up costing yourself time!
BP's moto: "No Lost Time"
The ONLY language bp and co understand is money. So fine them much, much harder : Then they will do all the neccesary to prevent these disasters for sure.
When he said 90-100 feet my body shivered
I. Get. Sick. That sums up this whole situation and BP not taking responsibility smh
After this occured, I personally boycotted BP and all its products. The fact that they got away with this was an absolute disgust.
Lloyd Cutler I read somewhere that this only hurts the ordinary people who own the BP franchise gas stations- you aren’t impacting BP the corporation. It was an article critical of BP and lamenting the fact that boycotting the gas stations hurts the wrong people
I still won't buy BP.
@@tommym321It may hurt them, but if everyone boycotts, it will harm BP itself.
My heart breaks for those who lost their business, but more so those who lost their lives.
Which is more precious?
@@Aw-ns1qx Your rhetorical question makes no sense in this context. No, it won’t hurt BP at all. BP is not selling directly to the consumer. You are talking about punishing people who had absolutely nothing to do with this tragedy. You’ll damage the livelihood of hard working people while doing NOTHING to affect the people who were responsible. That’s pure stupidity.
@@Aw-ns1qxDo you drive a car? Do you heat your home? Do you use petroleum products in any form? Then you haven’t boycotted British Petroleum
...I still remember this. A friend of mine was working for ADEM at the time, & was one of many overwhelmed by the cleanup efforts.
...Once again, 'Greed over Safety' results in countless numbers paying the price.
I remember flying to Florida before the accident. We always came in on the Tampa side, on route to Miami. Looking out at the Gulf was incredibly beautiful. Now, it doesn't look good at all. I wonder if it will ever turn back to the beautiful blue it was. Looks green and cloudy now. Kinda gross, if you ask me! In comparison anyway.
Also, would it be beneficial to consider engineering two, three or even half a dozen or more backup annular blowout preventers in future drilling infrastructure to statistically mitigate the chance of annular failure contributing to such a disaster? Logically, if one gasket were to fail, the inactive blowout preventer rubber gaskets could then engage one by one, in a series of individual pressure initiated stacked blowout preventers, if there were successive failures. Thus, the worksite could continue regular operations without decreasing safety. Its a low material cost rubber gasket, correct? Perhaps each gasket could be at regular operating specifications, while the last annular in a series of 12 could be the most robust, akin to an emergency brake to prevent a pressure blowout over any operating efficiency considerations recognizing that the others would have already had to have failed for the last to be engaged. The last annular might be many times larger in size while also intentionally decreasing the efficiency of any continued operations by design like a governor in order to incentivize the immediate servicing of the BOP, as it would be the omega line of protection. Further, this obvious now, but perhaps an automatic emergency disabling of the manual use of the joystick during pressure testing could have prevented damage to the annular? Was the employee in charge of the joystick drug & alcohol tested, as well as polygraph tested? Would it also be wise to enact new policies and procedures for shutting down the engine, onboard systems which could ignite a gas cloud and unnecessary electrical systems in the event of such combustible gas dispersals? Could standoff distance hyperspectral imaging, Raman gas identification and chemical sensing equipment also be required capabilities on all current and future rigs and other oil & gas infrastructure? Perhaps an automatic engine and critical system shutdown would be wise to consider following a standoff distance chemical detection of combustible gas in the engine room, rig or worksite, requiring a captain's override.
You got a little long winded there, don't you think?
Such a badass that they had to get Mark Walburg to play him.
Im amazed at how the rigg could carry the absolute immensely huge balls this man has, all creds to him, a real captain.
The Deepwater Horizon was "celebrated as among the safest in the fleet."
Yeah... so was the Titanic.
You took nothing from this segment...
So very very heartbreaking for the workers! I'm glad however, that BP lost billions. Not that they don't claw their way back!
This was 12 years ago now!
Criminal recklessness by BP
They paid for all criminal charges to be gone. No one went to jail.
845835ab yeah I never said anyone did. A few should have thou. I was working at one of the BP refineries when it happened. They cover up just about everything they do, even at refineries.
The movie they made for this --- I remember seeing it in the theater. I'm normally rather chatty, an extrovert by nature, and love to discuss the movies we see with my wife.
After this movie, we both walked away speechless. Utterly drained. The last 20 minutes was so shocking that it took me days before I could be my normal self. I grieve for those 11 men who were lost.... and celebrate those that survived.... but the sheer and utter tragedy of this event lives on well beyond those tense few months of them trying to seal the well. The fishing economy of the gulf states may never be the same and I honestly wish BP would be held accountable for their actions. If we all could merely boycott BP for a day... a week.... hit them where it hurts them most, in their pocketbooks... then maybe there might, in the future, be far less tragedies like this.
The bottom of the Gulf is covered with "methane hydrate" which decomposes at 4C. They poured warm concrete on that.
I never finished school but I know that when a piece of rubber breaks just like the gasket on the space shuttle just like the tires on my car u put on new tires and replace broke down rubber
That man ... WOW!! F'ing ROCK STAR!!!!!!
Good film. Good comments.
In my trade school my teacher use to say big company's cut safety corners because of greed. This is a prime example of wat he was talking about. In the movie the BP guy showed that by saying " no that's why we a 186 billion dollar company"
How much money is BP having to divert to Union issues that could be better spent on Maintenance?
Also, I love how everyone is blaming BP for the Horizon explosion when in reality it was TransOcean's rig, TransOcean's crew, TransOcean's overall management.
It really was "Hell on Earth", for those brave people
BP set up another rig week later, paid fine back in biz. As perusal 👍
In August 2014, the case against BP Atlantis was dismissed by a U.S.
circuit court. U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes stated "BP never
misrepresented -- much less knowingly distorted what it was doing,",
finding that the case was ultimately about "paperwork wrinkles" instead
of engineering shortcuts, adding [Abbott and the environmentalists]
"have not blown a whistle," he said. "They have blown their own horn."
BP: Were gonna do it our way or we are shutting this operation down!
Transocean: But we have to be safe about this and cover all our points! We cant just rush things
BP: Get it done!
Deepwater Horizon: Explodes because the BOP fails
BP: this was Transoceans fault not ours even though we told them to do it.
Not many stories more intense than that
"They share responsibility and pointing blame is dangerous and reckless!"
- "Who's to blame?"
"BP"
If story rips up my heart
That dam blame game 🎮 😒 🙄
BP, Greedy and Murderers. There's no excuse for the evil actions that BP is causing.
It would be helpful if the original air date was noted, either on the video or in the description.
@ 24:20...Transocean owns the rig....They have the last say on what happens on their rig..If the rig maneger don't sign off on it, it's not happening...No matter how much BP is bitching...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the
What a brave man!!
7 years of pushing the envelope and ego run wild was rewarded with this incident.
So sad. Ego is to blame. Not incompetency but ego
I will not set foot at a BP gas station...
If the people who knew better had erred on the side of safety and nothing bad happened, they would have been fired because it was taking too long to get to the deposit. Disgusting how the system works sometimes.
Williams told 60 Mintues’ Scott Pelley that he jumped first and left Fleytas behind. Fleytas later told U.S. Coast Guard investigators she was last in the life raft and fell out as it descended. Murray, who was in that same raft, told me in 2011 that Fleytas was in it.
The Love of money over safety.
AS AN X ROUGHNECK MY PRAYERS FOR THOSE WHO LOST THIER LIVES IT IS APRIL 20 2020
956BONKERS956 H what is ya prayer?
Methane burns the eyes. Mechanical subsea Gasket Annular failure, Blowout . Owner of the station is responsible for SAFETY. Subcontractor does not have the final word, because such accusation will not hold in court . Station Rig Owner procedures and manuals apply at all times . * For cleaning oil spills, plant Oyster Mushroom . * Methane is absorbed by a veriety of trees .
If people think BP learned a lesson by any of those fines your out of your mind!
They're worth over 267 billion dollars even with them losing 60 billion they still have 207 more
This just makes them be a little more cautious going forward that's about it!
I'm sure they made that 60 billion dollars on about this whole situation
The oil and gas industry would happily destroy the planet just for money
This reminds me of the Texas city disaster. BP learned nothing. The racing engines, the celebration of safety, then boom!
I feel like if someone dies due to workplace negligence the employees and surviving family should be awarded 1% of the company's net worth that is the only way these tragedies will be proactively avoided. My workplace prioritizes human safety, product safety, quality, and production in that order and that is how it should always be no profit is worth death or dismemberment of a worker.
As an electrician, Mike is my hero
Yes, there were shortcuts but what made this disaster so much worse were the regulations that forced companies to drill so far off shore. If this had happened in coastal waters, they would have been able to stop the flow much sooner
Off shore drilling was encouraged by the White House at the time. The Obama administration wanted companies to start drilling out there because it would lessen our dependence on foreign oil and it’s actually much cheaper and not as harmful to the environment (as long companies are doing what they’re suppose to) than drilling on land.
I was a diesel mechanic and one of the jobs I did was to install engine shut down devices on trucks going to the oil fields. The engine will run on the gas in the air and the rpm runs up until the engine comes apart. The cure is a shut down plate over the air intake that activates when gas is detected or when rpm exceeds a set limit. Why did a drill rig not have this device?
How horrific . These companies and big money ...
Big money 💰 go's around the world 🌎
Wow! God blessed that man
The cement bond log was not done. Allowing gas to surface.
Did he push Andrea to save her life as the movie suggests?
Yes
That’s amazing management, being so interested in speed that you ruin the bore you’ve drilled and have to start over
If this is what our market system produces then we’ve got some serious problems
The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than 154 million gallons of oil at sea. Green energy is cleaner!
Cold chilling story 😡🤬
My friend (now deceased) gave BP the solution that finally fixed the spill, and never got paid for it.
The designer of the cap head spool?
This guy is a great guy. Hard worker smart courageous. They could give 5 mil sand let him run the drilling operation and if not. Let the government hire him as a federal inspector and turn him loose and on inspection pay him 200k a year. He'd make a great inspector.
This was terrible, but not nearly as bad as fukushima. Fukushima is the gift that keeps on giving
8:06 Did the video editor have a stroke and is he okay? Cos how tf did that get sent out lol
We pray to God,so this bad incident will never happen Again on deepwater Horizon
If that had happened in 2008 the gas per gallon would’ve been 5+. I remember a few places in Kentucky alone with over 4 dollars in gas per gallons and they didn’t do the school bus to pick up the report cards the first day of summer.
Overspeed trip function failed
i eat nothing but bacon, eggs, steak, shrimp, corn, cheese, butter, hambugarm, chckien, cheese, butter, corn, hotdog
All these comments about the environment and I get that but lives we're lost also. All because the execs don't want a dent in their astronomical profits. And this is America
this is british petrol....
Both are important.
Root cause analysis tells us that it is always a management error.
That rig is x540 smaller in cost than BP's profits LOL
INSANE THAT WE GAVE BP AN EASY OUT IN FLORIDA!!! They DESTROYED the Gulf!!!