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Both Modules (Hyd) have been recovered and according to several knowledgeable eyewitnesses they are junk.

Anything recovered is immediately covered and considered off limits to anyone on the floor. Aside the actual mechanics of operating the deck operations are controlled by lawyers.

 

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...and from the BBC, "Investigators may be able to determine why a blowout preventer failed to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill more than four months ago as they get a close-up view of the key piece of equipment for the first time.

A crewman guided a crane Saturday to hoist the 15-metre, 305-tonne blowout preventer from 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea to the surface. It took about 29½ hours for the equipment to reach the surface of the Gulf at 7:54 p.m. ET.

FBI agents were among the 137 people aboard the Helix Q4000 vessel, waiting to escort the device to a NASA facility in Louisiana for analysis.


Read more:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/09/04/blowout-preventer-gulf.html#ixzz0ycpJPTBo"

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