Spill investigators want to find undersea evidence/crime scene

[babylonsister]

Spill investigators want to find undersea evidence
AP

By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 20 mins ago


NEW ORLEANS – Now that BP appears to have vanquished its ruptured well, authorities are turning their attention to gathering evidence from what could amount to a crime scene at the bottom of the sea.

The wreckage — including the failed blowout preventer and the blackened, twisted remnants of the drilling platform that exploded, burned and sank in mile-deep water in the Gulf in April — may be Exhibit A in the effort to establish who is responsible for the biggest peacetime oil spill in history.

Hundreds of investigators can't wait to get their hands on evidence. The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation, the Coast Guard is seeking the cause of the blast, and lawyers are pursuing millions of dollars in damages for the families of the 11 workers killed, the dozens injured and the thousands whose livelihoods have been damaged.

"The items at the bottom of the sea are a big deal for everybody," said Stephen Herman, a New Orleans lawyer for injured rig workers and others.

BP will almost certainly want a look at the items, particularly if it tries to shift responsibility for the disaster onto other companies, such as Transocean, which owned the oil platform, Haliburton, which supplied the crew that was cementing the well, and Cameron International, maker of the blowout preventer.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100806/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

[Cleita]

1. I hope so. n/t

[jpak]

2. "The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation" but...but..but..Obama let BP of the hook

or so we are told

[onethatcares]

3. all they have to do is borrow BPs submersibles and use BPs cameras.

geez, ya think BP would be standing there offering them to the government so this doesn't ever happen again.

[RC]

4. Oh, you're funny.

All their submersibles will develop problems and sink first.