Diary of a spill
Fail-safe might be the ideal, but responding to an emergency is often about dealing with realities, not ideals
Fail-safe: A device or system that, in the event of failure, ensures that said failure will cause no, or at least minimal, harm or danger. But for an industry like offshore drilling, with an engineering environment so challenging it has been compared to space exploration, is there such a thing as fail-safe?









