Blow Out Preventer Minutiae

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The New York Times has a very long article today on the troubles with the blow out preventer (BOP) at the Deepwater Horizon well that blew out in April. The article goes into what might have caused the BOP to fail and how engineers failed to get the BOP to work just days after the oil well explosion occurred. The article also goes into how the federal government meekly enforced regulations or just made suggestions in regards to oil rigs, particularly on the BOP topic.