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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm. In the spring of 2010 the globe observed for weeks as more than 200 million gallons of crude petrol billowed from a opening three a long way deep in the Gulf coast of florida. Warnings of varied and imminent environmental outcomes dominated the news. Deepwater drilling - generally ignored or misunderstood compared to that point - exploded in the American consciousness in the worst way possible. Fire on the Horizon, written by veteran petrol rig captain John Konrad and longtime Washington Post journalist Tom Shroder, recounts in stunning detail the life span of the rig itself, from its development in South Korea in the year 2000 to its improbable quest surrounding the world to its disastrous end, and shows the day-to-day lives, problems, and ambitions of those who called it home. From your little-known maritime colleges to Transocean's training colleges and Houston head office to the tiny towns from coast to coast where the wives and children of the Horizon's team resided in the ever-present shadow of risk hundreds of a long way away, Fire on the Horizon offers full-scale portraits of the Horizon's captain, its chief mate, its chief mechanic, and others. What emerges is a white-knuckled chronicle of engineering hubris at possibilities with the planet earth itself, a unique manifestation of commercial greed and the memorable heroism of the women and men up to speed the Deepwater Horizon. This is actually the harrowing minute-by-minute accounts of the fateful day, April 20, 2010, when the half-billion-dollar rig blew up, taking with it the lives of eleven people and abandoning a swath of unprecedented natural destruction.
