Rig survivors were held 40 hours in attempt to wear them out

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About 100 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion survivors arrive on shore
By The Associated Press
April 22, 2010, 5:12AM
Michael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune

Families welcomed survivors of a thunderous blast aboard an oil platform as Coast Guard rescuers combed Gulf of Mexico waters early Thursday for signs of 11 missing from the rig that was still in flames.

About 100 workers on the Deepwater Horizon when it blew Tuesday night made it onto a supply boat. When the boat reached shore Thursday morning, those aboard were examined by doctors, then taken by bus to a hotel in suburban New Orleans where several families waited.

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Rex: The rig blew up about 2200 on the 20th. The buses transporting the survivors arrived at the hotel (Airport Hilton, I think) before dawn. The timestamp on the article is 0512 (5:12 a.m.) It takes about 2 hours to get from Fourchon to Kenner. I'm estimating that the boat must have docked around 0100 on the 22nd (They had to offload, make everyone piss, load into buses, etc) for them to get to Kenner by 0400 or 0430. That's 27 hours on the boat, max. Another couple of hours on a bus.

The survivors were not "held" 40 hours. That's bullshite.

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Stop being a hack

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Impossible.

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Stop being a hack.

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Might as well ask the Pope to stop being Catholic.

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Stop being a hack.




Might as well ask the Pope to stop being Catholic.

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I figure you must work in the oilfield seeing that you know so much.

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And I figure you won't make it through school if you can't learn to read.

What part of "so say the attorneys" did you not understand?

They probably had to keep all these people together to contain information. Especially to be sure that the deceased persons family did not hear any news until it was confirmed and would come from the company and not from the news.

They probably also needed to conduct interviews etc. to determine what happened. Coast Guard is required to drug test if there is an accident.

That sounds like legal positioning by a plaintiff and I'm sure BP was justified in holding the involved personnel for a period until all necessary processing was complete.

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I had a friend that was one of those "locked up". A lot of it had to do with figuring out who was missing, and properly identifying their families.

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this is totally true. when we evacuate, we don't get to go home until all are accounted for. and, most of the time, we don't get to go home until the hitch is over.

They were held and forced to sign documents! If you watched the Congressional hearings, they were completely blasted over it by that woman, I forget her name, but she railed their arse for that exact situation.

I don't recall the hours mentioned, but they were held and briefed and forced to sign docs about saying certain things and them getting in legal trouble if they did.

THIS IS FACT. Watch the breifings or google the topic.

To be honest, that's pretty much standard. The big companies are going to try to get you to sign a waiver, releasing BP from any future litigation from those employees. Big business has been doing this for years. It's just normal.

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They were held and forced to sign documents!

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This is absolutely not true. I'm not saying people (lawyers) didn't try to strong arm them, but they cannot force you to sign anything. They can force you to piss in a cup, and that's probably the first thing any of them did when they hit the beach.

I've got a first hand account from someone that was there, and he said while it was an inconvience, they never felt like they were being made to do anything they didn't want to.

And signing documents could also mean they were signing their testimony of what happened. There's nothing shady about that, only the way they worded it in the article.