Sunday, May 16, 2010

From CBS News 60 Minutes

May 16, 2010

Survivor Recalls Deepwater Horizon Blast

Tells 60 Minutes "I Knew Something Bad Was Getting Ready To Happen"

(CBS)  One of the last to escape the Deepwater Horizon oil rig tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley how he got away from the flaming platform and all the things that went wrong leading up to the blowout that killed 11 and caused the still-gushing oil leak.

Michael Williams, chief electronics technician on the oil platform, speaks in his first interview in a report to be broadcast this Sunday, May 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Williams describes to Pelley the signs of the coming explosion as natural gas from the well was escaping onto the platform, then was sucked into the vessel's generators, which began to burn it and run out of control. 

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