Two days after the explosion, the rig sank to the ocean floor, and a pipe connected to the well on the sea floor broke.

在爆炸发生后两日，钻井平台沉入海底，连接海床油井的输油管道破裂。

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Following the explosion and fire on the rig, the blow-out preventer on the sea bed should have automatically sealed the well, but it failed, resulting in the massive oil spill.

在油井发生爆炸以及油井起火后，海底上的防喷器本来应该自动将油井封住，但是未能做到这一点，导致大规模的石油泄漏。

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Activated after the blowout, it would have done nothing to save the rig, but should still have been able to isolate the oil in the well from the sea above it.

但事发后才激活它，则不能挽救这个钻井平台，却仍然能够封住井内的原油而不与井上海面的浮油接触。

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But, as Mr Storm sees it, selling car insurance, personal pensions or protection for a North Sea oil rig are entirely different things.

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He would never say what he was thinking, but it was clear that he resented the time she spent at the hospital, and Eva had started looking forward to the days or weeks when her husband was away, inspecting a rig in the North Sea or designing some mysterious installation in Egypt or Nigeria.

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Non-essential staff were evacuated from the North Sea Producer, which is the closest rig to the incident, as a precaution, but it is not thought to be in any immediate danger of being struck by the drifting vessel.

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