To Err Is Human, Except When It’s A Crime

June 11, 2010

Catastrophic accidents often are the product of an “error chain.” The 1986 Challenger explosion began with a faulty O-ring design and ended with a launch in severely cold weather that exposed the design’s defects. The RMS Titanic had too few lifeboats, which became a lethal flaw when its captain ordered full speed through iceberg-filled waters. In both cases, and in countless others, there were many intervening points at which disaster …

Diving Deep Into The Unknown

May 26, 2010

As we prepared to hit the water, the dive master told our small group that if we wanted to spot big game like a stingray or a whale shark, we’d probably have to look up, toward the sunlight. Then he led us into the Caribbean off Puerto Rico’s south coast to the La Parguera Wall on my first deep-water dive. The wall is a sharp plunge from about 60 feet …

Mess In The Gulf? Blame Cheney

May 6, 2010

Well, at least we now know who was responsible for the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. An opinion piece in The New Republic tells us we can blame former Vice President Dick Cheney for pushing the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) to let those oil companies drill, baby, drill. Or maybe the guilty party was the MMS itself, which could have imposed stricter rules …

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