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Jenkins, Ryan
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Fiction
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2014
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Success Publishing
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English
โ 131 KB
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Fire on the Horizon - The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
โ Scribed by Konrad, John; Shroder, Tom
- Publisher
- HarperCollins US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm
In the spring of 2010 the world watched for weeks as more than 200 million gallons of crude oil billowed from a hole three miles deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Warnings of various and imminent environmental consequences dominated the news. Deepwater drilling--largely ignored or misunderstood to that point--exploded in the American consciousness in the worst way possible.
Fire on the Horizon , written by veteran oil rig captain John Konrad and longtime Washington Post journalist Tom Shroder, recounts in vivid detail the life of the rig itself, from its construction in South Korea in the year 2000 to its improbable journey around the world to its disastrous end, and reveals the day-to-day lives, struggles, and ambitions of those who called it home.
From the little-known maritime colleges to Transocean's training schools and Houston headquarters to the small...
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