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Thread #129466   Message #2956890
Posted By: Teribus
02-Aug-10 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: US bigots attack British Company (oil spill)
Subject: RE: BS: US bigots attack British Company (oil spill)
Oil Spill damage exaggerated

And

Evapourating oil slick leaves America without a villain

Another actor in the drama "Transocean" otherwise "Global Santa Fe" (Where the GSF comes from in the names of their rigs) Remember these paragons who Q and others tried to claim were so mercilessly bullied by big bad BP. that's right the ones whose employees by-passed, switched off and rendered useless alarms and onboard safety systems that might have saved life onboard the Deepwater Horizon. Well I received this today from someone I used to work with an offshore crane operator. The rig they are talking about is Tranocean's "GSF Jack Ryan":

Subject: disaster
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:51:33 +0000

Hay lads

the rig i am on in Nigeria the Jack Ryan today just had a major disaster i was watching as it happened, they were load testing the port aft crane when the fu..... crane boom snapped!!!!!!! also ripping the crane cab to bits throwing the crane op and the ET around a 100ft to the sea below seen the poor buggers falling they were lucky it wasnt the deck cause it was close............also the lad who was supervising the load testing is missing i.e dead, the ET is in a serious state the crane op is hurt but looks like he will make it.    IT TOOK Transocean FANNIES 15 MIN TO LAUNCH THE FRC BOAT THE SMALL CRANE/HOIST WAS SPEWING OIL AND WOULDNT LOWER!!!!!!WTF!!!! AND OVER AN HOUR TO GET A FULL MUSTER....................... be safe lads 'cause disaster is never far away offshore especialy down here