

Blue Bell ranked last among ice cream brands with low quality ingredients.Matt Gaetz's bullying of Houston teen helped her raise over $250K for abortion funds.Matt Gaetz mocked after taunting Houston teen activist Video of Houston security guard weeping at Kendrick Lamar concert racks up 11 million views."Families have been impacted in a way that they will never recover from."īP finally contained the spill about 87 days after the explosion, but it would be another two months before the well finally was declared "dead." "Eleven families were, their lives were so tragically changed at that point, children growing up without dads, mothers and fathers losing their sons," Weise said. Arleen Weise, who lived in Yorktown in Southeast Texas, said she was notified her son, Adam, was missing and immediately knew he wouldn't be found. After a few days, officials called off the search. The rig was evacuated, but of the 126 crew members, 17 were seriously injured and 11 were declared missing. "The next thing anybody knew, this thing is blowing out of control." "When you boil it all down, the people who were examining the data from the test, they just missed it," said Bommer, who specializes in cementing. Pressure tests before the blowout did show some unusual activity. "The actions, policies, and procedures of the corporations involved did not provide an effective system safety approach commensurate with the risks of the Macondo well," the report added.
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The National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council wrote in a report of "a series of questionable decisions in the days preceding the blowout that had the effect of reducing the margins of safety and that evidenced a lack of safety-driven decision making." "I mean it was the hugest, biggest fire I've ever seen. "I thought the place was falling in the ocean, that the whole rig was collapsing," Kevin Eugene, a rig steward from Slidell, La., told the Chronicle in 2010. ( Johnny Hanson / Chronicle ) Johnny Hanson/Staff Show More Show Lessīarrels of crude spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, a judge ruled "I'm hoping that I can make some money by being a part of the clean up." "It's not fun, but the deckhands are the ones who are in the worst shape from this spill," Guenther said. All fishing near the area of the BP oil spill had been suspended, leaving thousands of fishermen and women without work. Bernard, La., stands in line with hundreds of fishermen and their family members wearing the fisherman's signature "Chalmette Reebok's" while waiting for food and job assistance at the Brenton Sound Marina on May 5, 2010, in Hopedale, La. ( Johnny Hanson / Chronicle ) Johnny Hanson/Staff Show More Show Less 11 of44 Fisherman Ray Guenther of St. "I had about $1,000 worth of perfectly good crab in those traps and I had to throw them back because of the oil spill. 9 of44 10 of44 Dexter Strange, 51, a third-generation fisherman who works with his son, works on to pull out some of his last crab traps in Hopedale, La.
