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Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum drill depth of 30,000 feet (9,100 m). [5] Press releases from Transocean state the platform had historically been used for deeper wells, including the deepest underwater gas and oil well. [6]
Deepwater Horizon was a 10-year-old [30] semi-submersible, mobile, floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig that could operate in waters up to 10,000 ft (3,000 m) deep. [31] Built by South Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries [ 32 ] and owned by Transocean , the rig operated under the Marshallese flag of convenience , and was chartered ...
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).
Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer.It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a reigning world champion under regular time controls.
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Deep underwater explosions are those where the crater is small in comparison with the depth of the explosion, [2] or nonexistent. The overall effect of an underwater explosion depends on depth, the size and nature of the explosive charge, and the presence, composition and distance of reflecting surfaces such as the seabed, surface, thermoclines ...
Planners noticed that a few command and control bunkers in Baghdad were located deep underground to withstand heavy fire. Doubts were raised about the ability of the BLU-109/B to penetrate such fortified structures, so the US Air Force Air Armament Division at Eglin Air Force Base , Florida , was asked to create a weapon that could, and ...