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Unlike the Deepwater Horizon rig, this platform is located in shallow waters.
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Visitors to an offshore drilling rig or production platform receive safety training and are outfitted with steel-toed boots, safety goggles, gloves, hearing protection, and a helmet.
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In March the well was actually perforated and flowing when the U.S. DOE made the operator shut it in and move the rig away from the platform, an atypical safety requirement imposed in the wake of the Macondo disaster.
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill began in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th with a drilling rig explosion that killed eleven platform workers and injured seventeen others.
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It required that as soon as Davy Jones was perforated and a flare came up the hole, the rig had to be backed away from the drilling platform.
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According to reports from the AP and a press release on the Geokinetics website, the men had initially evacated the platform on a liftboat, which can be lowered and raised from the rig by mechanical pulleys.
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