[hamidar05]

I am glad to see we have some oil men setting this straight. What are the chances a rig/platform would suffer this type of catastrophic failure, I hear there is a lot of safety engineered into these things? Or do sometimes safety/procedures get a bit lax? Also, has anyone seen any interviews of the folks that were working to see if they have any ideas of what happened? I have heard some really bad theories, and am not so sure the truth would come out, or if the whole situation would not just be used for politics?

The impact is going to be bad, all the way around no matter what views you have, a tragedy indeed. God bless the folks that lost their lives and their families.