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Fire on the horizon : the untold story of the Gulf oil disaster / by John Konrad and Tom Shroder.
Lippincott Library HD7269.P42 M615 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Konrad, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010.
- Underwater explosions--Mexico, Gulf of.
- Underwater explosions.
- Offshore oil well drilling--Mexico, Gulf of.
- Offshore oil well drilling.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Accidents--Mexico, Gulf of.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Accidents.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 270 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [2011]
- Summary:
- Draws on first-person accounts to examine the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and the offshore-drilling culture that laid the groundwork for the disaster.
- Contents:
- Author's note: A perilous crossing
- Prologue: The end
- The beginning
- Oil and water
- Cold comfort
- Sea legs
- King Neptune
- Macondo
- X marks the spot
- The flood
- A captain's colors
- Latching up
- Kicks
- A long string
- Uneasy partings
- Positive test
- Negative test
- Sailor take warning
- "Something ain't right"
- Mayday
- Abandon ship
- Mustering
- Going home
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062063007
- 0062063006
- 9780062063014
- 0062063014
- 9780062063021
- 0062063022
- 9780062066541
- 0062066544
- OCLC:
- 656450582
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