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One way an oil rig’s blowout preventer can fail

Posted on May 3, 2010May 4, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 5 Comments on One way an oil rig’s blowout preventer can fail
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There’s not much more to say other than blue marlin bill fish caught in oil rig blowout preventer. Several people have asked why we aren’t blogging about the oil spill. The simple answer is that the Deep Sea News crew has done such an awesome job there’s not much more for us to add. H/T … Read More “One way an oil rig’s blowout preventer can fail” »

Monday Morning Blogaerobics – Black Gold and Bad Genes

Posted on May 3, 2010May 2, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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The massive oil spill creeping across the Gulf Coast dominated the twitterverse this weekend. DrCraigMc has been doing an awesome job keeping us up to date on the progress of the oil and the status of clean-up. Deep Sea News posted a time line of the disaster. At the current rate of 210,000 gallons of … Read More “Monday Morning Blogaerobics – Black Gold and Bad Genes” »

So much for drill, baby, drill

Posted on April 29, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 4 Comments on So much for drill, baby, drill
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