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Fire on the Horizon
- The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
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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 towns all over the country where the wives and children of the Horizon's crew lived in the ever-present shadow of risk hundreds of miles away, Fire on the Horizon offers full-scale portraits of the Horizon's captain, its chief mate, its chief mechanic, and others.
What emerges is a white-knuckled chronicle of engineering hubris at odds with the earth itself, an unusual manifestation of corporate greed and the unforgettable heroism of the men and women on board the Deepwater Horizon. Here is the harrowing minute-by-minute account of the fateful day, April 20, 2010, when the half-billion-dollar rig blew up, taking with it the lives of eleven people and leaving behind a swath of unprecedented natural destruction.
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A fascinating insight.
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well told!
didn't expect an accurate detailed description and explanation of oilfield processes but this is as good as it gets. good on ya. well worth the listen. an old rocky mtn mud engineer.
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- 06-05-15
Really interesting story. Incredible performance.
The story was an excellent blend of documentary account of the human tragedy and the technical failures that led to this disaster.
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- Steel Breeze
- 09-28-17
Seems like a solid accounting of the events
I read this because I was curious about the physical causes and human factors which led to the tragedy. I was skeptical that I could find a book that was not trying to beat a political drum, either to condemn fossil fuel consumption or to glorify it. This book delivered. It seems to be a balanced, objective account of what happened. The similarities between operations on a rig and the building of spacecraft (my profession) were striking. The utter complexities involved in engineering achievements on a large scale and the seemingly unwinnable battle over human complacency mark both industries. The key difference has to be that the workers on a rig are personally exposed to considerable daily danger, while spacecraft builders, aside from a few key operations involving highly toxic and flammable propellants, are unlikely to deal with life threatening situations on the job.
"Fire on the Horizon" does a great job of building up a litany of mundane and everyday events, which insidiously conspired basically through chance to lead to the disaster. It does not take much imagination to transport yourself to that rig in the days and hours leading up to the blowout and wonder if there is anything you could have done differently had you been there.
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- Buford Perry
- 05-26-11
It was a Boring Day Until the World Blew Up.......
This is the type of book I love, issued as soon as possible by a great author. His attempt to make the dead friends and relatives of his sources look good is understandable, but a mild distraction. His description of the culture on a floating oil rig is great, as is his rendition of what it's like to be in the middle of an explosion. The turbines revving in spite of the automatic shutdown, fed by airborne gas and their own momentum until the scream rose beyond the range of human hearing, haunts me. I can hear it in my bones. What fiction writer could have conceived such an omen of doom?
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- Dot8927
- 08-03-22
Well done
Complex and detail information put in a very personal fashion allowing the reader with no experience in the subject to maintain interest.
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- Andrew
- 01-10-17
Excellent story Well read
This is the 2nd audio book I listened to on the Deepwater Horizon. I much preferred this one based on the detailed information provided on how the accident occurred and the people involved. The reading was excellent and held my attention throughout. The movie gives a reasonable overview of what happened. This book is excellent as describing how and why.
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- Joshua C. Mccormack
- 11-22-21
The "already told many times" story
This was a horribly basic and pointless telling of a story that has been told much better before. There was nothing new here. NOTHING. I mean nothing new - so where the book gets off advertising "untold story" I have no idea. The Wikipedia article gives a better telling of the details.
Fire on the Horizon tells the story of how oil came to be. That's right, all the way back to the dinosaurs and a million other boring, pointless backstories, such as the first several offshore oil drilling platforms... Hey, know what you won't find!?!??! Detailed analysis and commentary on the engineering failures, human failures, and post-disaster analysis that makes for an interesting book. None of that is here. Instead, you get a story about how a few people interpreted the disaster and their experiences during it. Nothing new. You have about 2.5 hours of actual Deepwater Horizon story here, the remaining 6 hours are useless backstory.
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