Deepwater Horizon In Their Own Words (Full Episode) — In Their Own Words

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Just opened up my book, started reading the first sentence in the paragraph, when I heard what sounded like a freight train coming through my bedroom. I jumped out of the bed, and then there was a thumping sound that consecutively got much faster. And with each thump, I felt the rig actually shake. Then there was an initial boom. The lights went out. And there was a huge explosion. [00:00:37] Speaker 2: The rig is boiling. The rig is boiling. [00:00:41] Speaker 3: The explosion rocked the rig about 10 o'clock central time, spraying flames in every direction. [00:00:50] Speaker 1: Well, I saw fire from derrick leg to derrick leg. [00:00:53] Speaker 4: And you have oil and gas under pressure underground that erupts upward. [00:01:00] Speaker 5: It was extremely loud. It actually started sounding like a living thing. [00:01:07] Speaker 6: It's the sound of escaping gas, feeding the fireball, incinerating the deep water horizon. [00:01:19] Speaker 7: It's like you're almost waiting to die. There's people screaming. [00:01:23] Speaker 5: You feel the heat from the fire. I'm scared to death. I figured, this is my time. I'm going to die. [00:01:32] Speaker 8: 126 people were on board at the time of the explosion. Some jumped more than 75 feet into the ocean. [00:01:41] Speaker 9: The Coast Guard is pressing its search today for 11 workers still missing. [00:01:45] Speaker 4: I started to have a bad feeling when the sun came up. It got very precarious at that time. Time was running out. [00:01:54] Speaker ?: Time was running out. Deepwater Horizon is a state-of-the-art, semi-submersible, dynamically positioned by satellite drilling rig. [00:02:27] Speaker 10: Deepwater Horizon is a state-of-the-art, semi-submersible, semi-submersible, dynamically positioned by satellite drilling rig. And Transocean rents Deepwater Horizon to the big oil companies at about a half a million dollars a day. Now, what the oil companies use Deepwater Horizon for is to drill the wells. They come out. They drill in really challenging environments. They find the oil. Sometimes they set up the production well. Then they go to the next job. [00:03:03] Speaker 11: It is different than any other job. A lot of people, when they first start out, they try to compare it to construction. And it's a completely different thing. Being away from your family, you know, if something happens, you can't just leave it. It's all weather permitting. [00:03:23] Speaker 12: These are our charts. And this is our tracking of Hurricane Ivan. Put a mark on that piece of paper where we's at. [00:03:36] Speaker 11: Everybody out there gets kind of close. I mean, as far as friendships and stuff like that. Are you going to do some work now? Really, I'm with him more than I am on my own family most of the time. All right, there's Yancy. It's a little different than being home, because you know, and it is dangerous. You never know when cables are going to break or the equipment's going to fail. [00:03:58] Speaker 12: This is our subsea control panel. This is used to shut down any blowouts that come from the subsea floor. [00:04:07] Speaker 11: The guys you work with, a lot of times, they need to have your life in their hands. [00:04:12] Speaker 13: Busted! Are we working? [00:04:16] Speaker 14: That night was an amazingly calm night. Very little wind. I mean, it was just ideal. I just noticed mentally that evening at sunset how pretty it was. I was tuning to paperwork. [00:04:41] Speaker ?: My mate, he noticed quite a bit of mud falling through the center of the rig. I stood up to see what he was talking about, and I turned around and I noticed the mud drying down. [00:04:56] Speaker 14: So I looked up outside the window for the side of the vessel, and I've seen the mud come out. When the mud come out, when the mud come on top of Derrick is not good. My room phone rang. And the person at the other end of the line there opened up [00:05:14] Speaker ?: by saying, "We have a situation." [00:05:15] Speaker 14: He said, "We have mud going to the crown." And the person at the other end of the line there opened up by saying, "We have a situation." [00:05:21] Speaker 2: He said, "We have mud going to the crown." And the person at the other end of the line there opened up by saying, "We have a situation." He said, "We have mud going to the crown." I was just horrified. I said, "Well, do y'all have it shut in?" He said, "Jason is shutting it in now." And he said, "Randy, we need your help." [00:05:46] Speaker ?: And I'll never forget that. And I said, "I'll be right there." [00:06:05] Speaker 14: I contacted the Horizon Bridge on the VHF radio and advised him of the mud coming down. And I asked him what the situation was. With tension in his voice, he immediately advised me that I was having trouble with the whale. I came up to the bridge. [00:06:24] Speaker 15: At that time, I felt a jolt. When I felt that jolt, there was a series of combustible gas alarms that went off. Yancy came over and turned the CCTV over to the starboard side. And that's when I witnessed mud coming from the starboard side. [00:06:51] Speaker 11: When I woke up, I started, like, a loud buzzing. I wasn't sure what it was. I just thought somebody was cleaning or something like that outside my room. So I just fell back to sleep. [00:07:06] Speaker 16: I heard a hissing noise and a thump. Within seconds of that, I start hearing beeping. And I'm hearing the beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. It's continuous. And I'm thinking to myself, OK, what's going on? And I'm trying to put all this together in my head as to the thump, the hissing, and now the beeps. I hear the engine start to rev. Normal operating rpms to way above what I'd ever heard it run before. And it's continuously, steadily rising. And I knew then that we were having a problem. As I start to push back from my desk, the computer monitor exploded in front of me. All the lights in my shop popped. The light bulbs themselves physically popped. Now I know we're in trouble. I reached down to grab my door. And at the-- simultaneously of grabbing the handle, the engine goes to a level that is higher than I can even describe it. It's spinning so fast that-- It just-- it stopped spinning. And there was a huge explosion. That explosion blew the fire door that was between me and those spaces off the hinges. [00:08:32] Speaker 2: It blew me probably 20 feet against a bulkhead against the wall. And I remember then that the lights went out. Power went out. I could hear everything deathly calm. [00:08:47] Speaker 11: And I started trying to find my clothes in the dark. I grabbed my boots, put them on. I couldn't see anything. [00:08:56] Speaker 16: I couldn't breathe. There was no oxygen. I crawled across the floor, found the opening, made my way out. I had a small pin flashlight in my pocket that I put in my mouth to try to-- to see. I still couldn't see. I didn't know why I couldn't see. I just couldn't see anything. I made it to the next door by feel. And as I reached the next door, I reached up and grabbed the handle for it. It then exploded. [00:09:33] Speaker 2: My next recollection was that I had a lot of debris on top of me. I tried two different times to-- to get up. But whatever it was, it was a substantial weight. And I told myself, either you get up or you're going to lay here and die. [00:09:56] Speaker 4: The ring is blowing. The ring is blowing. The ring is blowing. [00:10:26] Speaker 16: Dude, that was crazy when that thing blew up. [00:10:32] Speaker 15: The ring blacked out. I went over to the general alarm and hit the general alarm. Yancey made the announcement over the PA. Report to emergency stations and live boats. And at that point, I noticed that no one had hit any of the distress buttons. So I went over and hit the distress buttons and issued a mayday. [00:11:05] Speaker 16: Crawling through the ECR. My arm wouldn't work. My left leg wouldn't work. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see. I knew I had to get outside. It's just some fresh air. I crawl across the bodies of-- of at least two men. I don't know their condition. I'm trying to get them to respond. They're not responding. I assume they're dead. And keep moving. Because I know that I'm in no condition to help them. I can barely help myself at this point. So I was tripping and falling, trying to make my way to the outside watertight door. I get about halfway across it, and I can actually start to see light, a dim light. So I assume I'm headed in the right direction. I keep going towards the light. Eventually, I make my way outside. I got my bearings, got my eyes cleaned out. There was no walkway. There were no handrails. And there was no stairwell left. The wall, the handrail, the walkway, all those things were missing. They were completely blown off the back of the rig. One more step, and I would have went in the water. [00:12:29] Speaker 2: So I opened my cabin door. Right leg was hung on something. I don't know what still. But I pulled it as hard as I could, and it came free. I attempted to stand up. That was the wrong thing to do, because I immediately stuck my head into smoke. And with the training that we've all had on the rig, I knew to stay low. I got on my hands and knees, so I was totally disoriented. I'd lost orientation on which way the doorway was. And I remember just sitting there and just trying to think, which way is it? And then I felt something that felt like air. And I said to myself, that's the direction I need to go. That leads out. So I had to crawl very slowly, because that end of the living quarters was pretty well demolished. Debris everywhere. But I made it through the doorway, and what I thought was air was actually methane. And I could actually feel like droplets. It was moist on the side of my face. I continued to crawl down the hallway slowly, and I put my hand on a body, and it was Wyman Wheeler. [00:14:01] Speaker 16: There's two lifeboats there on that lifeboat deck. And from what I saw, what I heard, and what I felt, I seriously considered launching a lifeboat by myself, because I knew that something really, really bad had happened, and it wasn't going to get any better anytime soon. I had an inclination that this was way worse than anyone could expect. And I thought about it for a second, and I remembered that I had, you know, I have responsibilities. I have an emergency station to go to. The problem was, my emergency station no longer existed. So I made a decision to put my life jacket on right there, and try to make my way to the bridge, which would be my secondary muster station. I determined if I couldn't make it there, I was going to come back and launch the lifeboat by myself. [00:15:02] Speaker 11: I was on the fire team, so I was trying to get to my fire station. My main fire station is the one in the back of the rig. I could see it, and I could see that nobody was there, and there was a bunch of smoke around it. So I turned around to go back to the front of the rig. And that's when I saw the flames in the derrick. As soon as I saw that, I knew there was no way we were going to put it out. We were just going to get off of their old shirt. That's when my panic set in. I mean, that scared me absolutely to death right then. I've never had a feeling like that. I mean, the lifeboat's probably gone. I didn't know-- I hadn't seen anybody until this point. I didn't know if I was the only person still on the rig or what. Yeah, that's all I kept thinking was, well, we're all dead. [00:16:15] Speaker 17: I was relieved for the night. On the way home, I received a phone call. They said, we just had an oil rig explosion. You need to come back here as soon as possible, five minutes to go. So I said, OK, I'm turning around right now. I said, just throw my-- all my gear in the helicopter, and I'll change in route. Just ran right to the helicopter, hop in, and off we went. [00:16:45] Speaker 7: As soon as we took off, I put my night vision goggles down, and I could see this immense glow on the horizon. It looked like I was flying to New York City. The glow was that immense. And normally, you might see a faint horizon, or you see no horizon at all. And I told my crew, I said, guys, you see that light on the horizon? That's where we're going to. It sunk in right there, that this is-- this is real. This is the real thing. We don't know what we're going to see when we get there, but we know it's big. [00:17:35] Speaker 2: The next thing I recollect is, I saw, like, a beam of light, like a flashlight bouncing, and I saw that to be Stan Carden. Well, about that time, Jimmy Harrell came out of his room. He told me he was in the shower when an explosion happened. He managed to find a pair of coveralls and put those on. I said, Jimmy, I've got Wyman down right here. So we asked him to go to the bow and get a stretcher. We continued to remove this debris off of Wyman. I helped him up, and I was going to try to help walk him out, thinking that it might be quicker. He made a couple of steps with his arm around my shoulder. He was in pain. And then he said, set me down, set me down. So we set him back down. And he said, y'all go on and save yourself. You know, and I said, no, we're not going to leave you. We're not going to leave you in here. [00:18:59] Speaker 16: Once I got on the bridge, I reported immediately to the captain that we have no propulsion, we have no power. And I said, you need to understand, engine number three for sure has blown up. We need to abandon ship now. [00:19:15] Speaker ?: I turned around. [00:19:16] Speaker 1: I didn't recognize who it was at the time because he was covered in blood. It was Mike Williams at GVT. And I asked him, what do you mean gone? He said, they're blown up. They're all gone. They're blown up. Upon looking at the screen, there was still nothing. No engine starting, no thrusters running, nothing. We were still dead ship. Chris Pleasant, the subsea supervisor was standing at the BOP panel. I hollered out to Chris Pleasant, have you EDS? He said he needed permission to EDS. Somebody on the bridge hollered out, he cannot EDS without the OIM's approval. I hollered out, can we EDS? He said, yes, EDS, EDS. When I turned back to Chris, he was in the panel pushing a button. [00:20:01] Speaker ?: And I hit the EDS, and I seen it go to close. And I was looking through that panel, trying to see what was going on. After I saw that I had no hydraulics, I had no pressure in the system that allowed those functions to work. [00:20:08] Speaker 18: I knew it was time to move. I hollered to Chris, I need confirmation that we have EDS. He said, yes, and he pointed at a light in the panel. Steve Bertone, then he turns away and says, yes, I need confirmation that we have EDS. And I was looking through that panel, trying to see what was going on. After I saw that I had no hydraulics, I had no pressure in the system that allowed those functions to work. I knew it was time to move. [00:20:31] Speaker 1: I hollered to Chris, I need confirmation that we have EDS. He said, yes, and he pointed at a light in the panel. [00:20:38] Speaker 18: Steve Bertone, then he turns away and he said, I'm going to the emergency generator room, like that. And I said, you need me to go with you? And he didn't say nothing, but I looked out that door and I said, I ain't going. [00:20:56] Speaker 1: When I left the bridge, I went to close the watertight door, and Mike Williams pushed the door back. And he said, you're not going alone, Chief. I said, well, come on. Paul Meinhardt, the motorman, also fell in line, and we ran towards the standby generator. As I was running, I looked up at the derrick, and I could see nothing but flames, because I could see no equipment whatsoever. It was solid flames. When we walked into the standby generator room, my thinking at that point was what remaining fuel would be in the riser, it would burn away, and we were going to need power, as well as fire pulse. I hit the start button. There was absolutely no turning over of the engine. And at that point, I said, that's it. Let's go back to the bridge. It's not going to crank. [00:21:52] Speaker 16: On our way back to the bridge is when I noticed, I believe it was lifeboat number one, had descended and was motoring away. They had descended and disconnected from the rig. [00:22:03] Speaker 15: The captain yelled and said that we were abandoning. I went over to the PA and made the last announcement and said that we were abandoning the rig. Yankee, myself, and the captain were the last to leave the bridge, and we went down at craft station, where there were a few others. [00:22:26] Speaker 11: We went down to the life capsule deck. Everybody was panicking. Some people were trying to stay calm and do what needed to be done. Like the chief mate, captain, and stuff. They were trying to get the stuff handled the way they were trained and knew how to handle it. Some people were jumping off. Some people were holding people back from jumping off. They wouldn't let them. Some people were screaming, you know, we got to get out of here. We got to get out of here. So, I mean, there was a certain level of panic that everybody was in. It made things a little more difficult getting off the rig. I got in the number two lifeboat. Everybody was in there hollering and screaming, you know, we got to go. Derek's fixing to fall on us. They finally got everybody in there and shut the door. Then they released the lifeboat down to the water. [00:23:28] Speaker 16: As we were making our way down the ladder way to get to the lifeboats, lifeboat number two descended. So now there are-- the two forward lifeboats are both gone. They're both unavailable. Once they go down, there's no coming back up because we had no power. There's several minor explosions occurring. Things are falling. You can hear stuff popping. [00:23:55] Speaker ?: It seemed like an eternity. [00:24:09] Speaker 2: They came back, uh, with a stretcher. We were able to get Wyman on that stretcher. When we got outside of the living quarters, the first thing I observed was both of the main lifeboats had already been deployed and--and they had left. I also looked to my left and I saw Captain Kirk and a few of his crew starting to deploy a life raft. And we continued down the walkway until we got to that life raft. And we were able to catch the--the head part of the stretcher and--and assist getting Wyman into the life raft. And I--I think we actually fell trying to, you know, get him into the life raft. The main thing is Wyman was there. You know, he didn't get left behind. [00:25:14] Speaker 1: There was, uh, a lot of explosion still going on. And, uh, immense heat. All the, uh, flames and heat from the rig floor were coming down the forward part of that deck. As well as all the flames and the heat from under the rig, they were meeting, I guess, in like a vortex or something right there at the life raft. But I can remember feeling the intense heat on my knees. I also heard screaming, "We're gonna die. We're gonna die." And I honestly thought that we were gonna cook right there. [00:25:46] Speaker 16: I wasn't sure that the life raft was gonna survive. And there was a crowd of folks there trying to get into this small opening. There was so much heat coming up, I thought for sure the life raft was gonna pop or melt. And the people inside were gonna cook. [00:26:08] Speaker 6: Moments after the rig first exploded, you can hear the roar. It's the sound of escaping gas feeding the fireball incinerating the deep water horizon. [00:26:31] Speaker 14: We were approximately 100 meters out. My guys instinctively getting the, uh, ships FRC ready. I gave the command to launch. Surely after we seen the first three guys jump off the rig. [00:27:00] Speaker 13: I knew this was big. [00:27:04] Speaker 1: I've never seen flames that gigantic before, that huge. [00:27:09] Speaker ?: This was like seeing hell on Earth. The next thing I knew the life raft was descending. When we touched the water, I heard somebody holler out, "Where are the paddles?" I heard somebody holler out, "Where are the paddles?" I jumped out of the life raft. [00:27:18] Speaker 19: I jumped out of the life raft. I jumped out of the life raft. 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Our mission was to return to base with a critically injured victim, but it still felt bad to leave the scene. But that was the tasking we were given. [00:36:57] Speaker 21: It began with a powerful explosion, a column of flames shooting into the night sky over the Gulf of Mexico. The oil rig still burning and could topple into the water at any moment. [00:37:09] Speaker 22: The source of that fire is predominantly coming from the wellhead itself. It's crude oil that is leaching from this wellhead. And as long as that crude is leaching, we're going to continue to see that fire. [00:37:25] Speaker 20: After the helicopter left, he was like, with the wounded, everything just kind of like fell in place. Finally able to start calming down. [00:37:35] Speaker 11: And we sat there and pretty much watched the rig burn for six or seven hours. There's something I'll never forget. The images just burned in my head I'll never forget. After we took the mustard and stuff, we figured out we were missing 11 guys. You know, most of it, we assumed they were on the rig. We didn't know. And that was pretty tough not knowing. [00:38:07] Speaker 17: I went home that morning, tearing on the news. And then you find out, well, there's still 11 people missing. It's like, oh. It's like, man, I hope they made it. I just hope they made it off. [00:38:27] Speaker 9: In the news, the Coast Guard is pressing its search today for 11 workers still missing on a burning oil drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana. Fireboats are struggling to put out flames triggered by the explosion on Tuesday night. [00:38:43] Speaker 11: We left from the rig. We rode for probably a good four hours to another platform. The guys on that platform, they sent down a bag with some cigarettes and some snuff in it and stuff and some clothes. [00:38:57] Speaker 8: The survivors who were not injured are now making their way to shore. They will be arriving here in port later this evening. The search for the missing will continue through the night. [00:39:06] Speaker 3: A pair of Coast Guard cutters stayed out in the Gulf all night looking for these missing workers. They will be joined a little bit later by one of these choppers, which is set to leave at first light here. And as you can imagine, the longer this search and rescue mission goes without resolution, the more fear and concern grow. [00:39:27] Speaker 11: When we got off the boat, they brought around three or four prepaid cell phones. They were passing those around. Everybody was, you know, passing and talking to their family for about 30 seconds on. They were just letting them know they were off the boat. That was the first time I got to talk to my wife. From there we rode to New Orleans to the Crowne Plaza. We went in the back of it because they told us there was so many lawyers and media out front. They were making us go in the back. And all our families were waiting. That was the first time I got to see my wife. She ran up smiling. And then by the time she got her arms around my neck, she was burst out in tears. Both of us did. [00:40:24] Speaker 4: We were on site about midnight. So we were only on site in our relatively short period of time. I started to have a bad feeling when the sun came up and we could get a more accurate assessment of the extent of the damage on board the oil rig. And you could see the derrick leaning over on the crane. And you could actually see what used to be incredibly stout steel sagging like a clothesline. It got very precarious at that time. And we were all very, very concerned that time was running out. But at around 10 o'clock we could see the Aft Starwood Corner starting to slowly drop into the sea. The loud groans coming out of this vessel as she broke up was becoming much more pronounced. We started to back off. A thick sheen of brown emulsified oil still on fire behind. I think, unfortunately for us, we were fighting a losing battle from the start. But you still feel a tremendous loss. You still feel a tremendous sense of failure. My thinking immediately shifted to that of the people on board. You're there to help the loved ones of those people that may be missing come to some sense of closure. It was quite a silence on the bridge. And I know we were all thinking the same thing. [00:42:14] Speaker ?: You feel the loss. [00:42:16] Speaker 4: You feel the failure. You feel it deep. And it settles in more and more as time goes by and as adrenaline subsides. You know, I'm still going over things in my mind. [00:42:36] Speaker 5: There were 126 crew members on board the rig. 11 of the workers never had a chance. They were killed in the explosion. Their bodies never recovered. [00:42:47] Speaker 23: These guys on the deep water are the fighter pilots of our profession. They are the rock stars. The very best of the best work on the deep water. And they don't accept anything less. [00:43:07] Speaker ?: They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. They are the most likely to be in the middle of the world. [00:43:26] Speaker 2: The Horizon was an exemplary rig with excellent personnel. They paid the ultimate price they gave their life to try to minimize the damage that was done to people, property, environment. And I hope at least that message is clear that they paid the ultimate price.