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BP robot accident badly hits oil spill containment
A high-tech effort by BP, to slow the oil gushing from its ruptured wellhead, led to a large accident yesterday that forced the company to remove a vital containment cap for 10 hours.
- puredemo 16y agoAt least we are seeing incremental progress now, even with a step backwards here and there.
- hga 16y agoNot too pleased with this bit of reporting at the end: "Yesterday's ROV incident is not BP's first. In April, the robots failed to activate the blow out preventer device...." The robot manually (so to speak :-) flipped a switch on a control panel (http://www.flickr.com/photos/uscgd8/4551846015/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/uscgd8/4551846015/). The BOP failed to do its thing (as it had when its deadman switch feature failed). Not the fault of the poor robot at all.
- kenj0418 16y agoSomeone is going to see this guy: http://media.photobucket.com/image/robot%20devil/demonelite/robot_devil_flames.jpg http://media.photobucket.com/image/robot%20devil/demonelite/...