11 missing after oil rig explosion

[Hawkeye2j]

Pray for the families

NEW ORLEANS – An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing.
Most of the 126 workers on the rig Deepwater Horizon were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion about 10 p.m. Tuesday, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O'Berry said.
The rig, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, was still burning at midday Wednesday. It was tilting about 70 degrees and threatening to topple into the water. There was no estimate of when the flames might be out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion

[Hawkeye2j]

Most found safety which is the good news, but my heart goes out to those families of the missing.

[Moby]

I was reading the statistics on deaths on oil rigs in the past decade and I was kind of surprised that there aren't more. I feel bad for the families but I'm sure it was an accident and won't become a common occurrence.

[PursuitOfHappinessParty]

Rigs are dangerous, deep sea especially so.
Tragic for the 11 but the true tragedy is the inevitable oil spill that's to come.

It could be worse than the Alaska/Valdez fiasco.

[Kanadesaga]

Rigs are dangerous, deep sea especially so.
Tragic for the 11 but the true tragedy is the inevitable oil spill that's to come.

It could be worse than the Alaska/Valdez fiasco.

Choose your poison, fumes from burning oil or the slick.