todd m. sweet

Energy companies have developed breathtaking technology to drill deeper into the seabed beneath ever deeper waters, yet they have little more than absorbent mops and floating Shop-Vacs to clean up the mess if it all goes wrong. Their disaster plan—the only technologically workable plan—is merely hoping there is no disaster, which is no plan at all.

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BOOM: Big Issues: GQ

This is the story, “of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them,” as written by Sean Flynn in GQ magazine.