Right?! I just discovered this film. (Been out of the movie rotation since Hollywood took a 3k mph swan dive into stupidity.) But I have to admit the build up and drop was just ART! I mean, it was almost like the moments leading up to a major car accident. Slo-motion madness and then the chaos starts.
If it happened @Sbamabelle but of the destruction and catastrophic that you see in the movie that is based on real events, actually 11 people died in that
I actually do like the shots where they simulated the camera being inside the tube and the machines. I thought it gave these forces a more visual representation of their power. Sure, they look a bit strange, they could do with some fine tuning, but I think they are a nice addition.
I watched this movie with my family on a rainy night, and when the movie finished, I said how cool it looked and how well all the practical effects were done, and then the tribute began. When it showed the photos and names of the people who died on the rig, and the real footage of it burning. It was terrifying
Mr Jimmy calling out the names on the Damon Bankston was a very powerful scene cause you know they ain't answering. "is there anyone here from the drill shack" Silence. Tearing up just thinking about it.
@@therealthreadkillaExactly. And when they were just praying their hearts out right after it while everything was STILL just blowing up over and over again... God Almighty that was sad. They hadn't cause the lifeboats were still saving everyone, but it was like they'd just given up on everything.
The ultimate Mechanical Engineering movie! I am teaching high school engineering, and I will make sure every last one of my students watches this tragic movie, in order to learn about the dilemmas of project management.
Good for you. I think alot of risk management and project management classes skip over the human aspect of these disasters. Seeing people die on camera in these movies has a much stronger impact than reading off casualty figures.
Engineering feats drilling and producing offshore. People used to ask me 'what's it like' ? You can tell them, but, like a lot of things, you can never describe the sounds and smells or the scale of it all.
But blowouts aren't the only problem with rigs like this one. In 1983, an accident on a Norwegian oil rig called the Byford Dolphin led to the violent deaths of 5 people. Seems a failure of one of the decompression chambers caused the divers bodies to literally explode from the sudden release of pressure.
"Saving private Ryan" traumatized my grandpa because he was a legionaire. "The Aviator" and "Airport" traumatized my father because he was a mechanic at international airport. Your comment is shit, dude.
Ive worked for the oil field since i got out of highschool, so 14 years now. Every so often i rewatch this movie to remind me how important it is to be thorough when building or repairing the equipment I service.
Don't you know it! My youngest is a precision welder and got certified to pressure test on offshore rigs. Mom worked for Kerr McGee for many years, so she knows the drilling world well too. When he got an offer to travel to Norway, I think it was, to work on an offshore rig there, Mom and I both cringed--it paid very, very well, but we're both aware of how potentially dangerous it is. I worked in industrial security/DOT transportation so my boys grew up with "Safety Sally", LOL--I was so paranoid about fire that I kept a metal butt can in several places to lessen the possibility of a fire. Thank goodness a lot of that rubbed off on my son, he's very safety-conscious as well. Be careful out there!
Having worked on land drilling rigs and offshore for many years there is one huge difference between the two. On a land rig, you can actually RUN. Offshore, as the saying goes, 'Jail, with the possibility of drowning.' No where to run. And if you're in the North Atlantic or North Sea, going into the water is really not an option. Not a good one anyway. If you choose THAT that means you have no choice because that is just a slower death. You're just choosing what death that is. Burning, freezing, or drowning. What would you choose ? No need to answer, it's chosen for you.
@@MicrosoftPaintOfficial Rescue ships tend not to have strong enough sonar to do any damage. On warships and submarines, an "active" sonar pulse (where the sonar sends out noise to hear an echo) it can be loud enough to kill, for example, divers nearby. Literally melts your insides.
What should’ve been said: We have a huge fucking emergency at deep water horizon jesus fucking christ WE NEED ALL COAST GUARD VESSELS HERE NOW FOR FUCKS SAKE, HURRY UP YOU BASTARDS THE WHOLE THINGS ON FUCKING FIRE HOLY SHIT. HURRY THE FUCK UP LIKE 10 PEOPLE ARE DEAD HURRY THE FUCK UPPP!
I love how the director tries his best to make the oil look like an alive conscious vessel... made the audience try to see that the thing is alive and has a soul.
The entire rig is sort of portrayed as actively fighting the pressure of the oil. The shots inside showing layer after layer desperately holding it back and eventually breaking, the bits with the overworked engine until it finally blows too, and many other details show the rig as a cohesive piece that feels almost like a body, doing its best and ultimately failing. Very well-made. The parts after the blast, with the rig drifting and tearing itself apart, also include the fire seeming animatedly hungry, swirling around the structure and rushing through to wherever it can burn.
I don't think the initial blowout was this dramatic but since it''s a movie, why not. Man, when I saw those vapors getting sucked into air intake vents, you know what was coming next. For the workers on the Deepwater Horizon, it must have been hell on Earth.
Agreed. Just by the explosion alone it looked like it killed everyone on board. But I assume it’s just for dramatic effect the intensity at least, I know some if not most of it happened. I couldn’t imagine experiencing it in person.
The initial blow out by reports threw a plume of the mud over 70m. (240 ft) into the air. And a similar explosion In a refinery Texas City in 2005 produced one of the largest non nuclear explosions ever. Edit. Its actual similar to the method to produce the highest yield bombs we can make called fuel-air explosives. This explosion was methane misting all over the rig.
@@elonsus9747 i heard they actually had to tone down the size of the explosion in the movie to make it seem more real, so it would have been significantly larger than the movie depicted in real life
On my rig we have an automatic shutoff louver for the engine air intake. I don't know why or if they was any on the Deepwater horizon, my guess is yes since it was a modern rig.
@@jeandubois8810it probably did. But in the movie they say how the rig needed heaps of work on fixing stuff that didn’t work so could have been there, but broken/Faulty.
I am sorry I did not get to see it in the theaters. I heard stories that during the explosion/flash over sequence people were jumping out of their seats or ducking behind them.
@@jzenhenko I’m sorry but what you’re saying is downright awful. While the oil industry is in no way good for the environment it is also in no way respectful to those who lost their lives in the accident and the families of those men for you to say what you are saying. The oil spill did cause significant damage to the gulf but you have no right to condemn these men the way you are.
The movie makes it seem much worse than it actually was, at least in terms of human casaulties. Only 11 people out of around 150 perished in the explosion. That is tragic, without a doubt but the movie makes it seem much worse than it was.
This whole movie is shot like a horror movie and I love it. Just the ambience around 4:10 feels like you're in hell, and you're hearing the screams of the fucking damned
@@DynamicSeq They basically lied over the true extent of this disaster. BP deliberately claimed that far less oil was leaking than was actually leaking. Sufficient countermeasures could have been applied much earlier but nobody except BP knew how serious it actually is. They would pay a large amount of money for every single barrel that leaked into the ocean so they simply decided to lie about the emount of barrels and it got even worse over the time.
@wassupMannn Less outright lies and cover ups that lead to Chernobyl but certainly a lot of fatal mistakes and errors that cost lives and caused massive ecological damage. The worst were the mistakes during the pressure test and not letting Schlumberger do a proper analysis of the concrete work, but what we can we say, rush jobs, the mother of all f*** ups.
I had watched this when it came out, but I was a bit younger so I couldn't appreciate just how well shot this is. This movie recreates a situation that other movies have tried and failed to do. Getting a feeling of fear from those watching is so tricky to do
TheTuubster I made the mistake of having this movie up to like 60% volume on my 5.2.2 home theater system. I think my windows about blew out on this scene
Well. There’s a safe way, and a dumb way. That well was a monster. And they were forced to cut too many corners, and the go way faster than they should have.
i think you are right bro but lets face it you writing this comment seng electrical power coming from crud oil which come frome deeoly undergroind ... live !
@@houstonsanderfield6074 When you ignore nature, you get what's coming to you. They cut too many costs and put safety on the back burner. This is the fault of BP management and engineering.
I am going to play Devil's Advocate here and point out that it is not really all about greed. It is about the crises of Project Management. Projects particularly large projects) generally incur project uncertainty. Because of project uncertainty, projects fall behind schedule and go over budget. The Project Manager gets put under pressure to make progress. Under pressure to make progress, he gets tempted to cut corners. When corners get cut, disaster sometimes ensues. It was the same thing with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Cutting corners in order to remedy political pressure is what this tragedy is really all about. You should pity these people, including the project managers who were responsible.
Hyundai made this oil rig. One of the inexpensive rigs made. It's possible the Hyundai rig was produced with inferior metallurgy. Causing this disaster.
@@crystalamulet6163 They already went through this witch hunt back in 2010. 3 companies were under scrutiny - BP, Halliburton, Transocean - and each one of them tried to blame another. Obama was sick of their blame shifting (on the upside, that was one of the times he was actually a good president) and wanted some form of accountability. Watch the movie Deepwater Horizon in its entirety, and you will probably get a better idea of who is to blame.
For those wondering about the generator explosion: The added gas, which came in through the air intake, caused the pistons the over rev, until eventually, it locked up as a.. safety mechanism, I believe, to prevent a runaway engine. The second it locked, as the spark plugs were still doing the sparky stuff, it shot the pistons out, and exploded. Don’t be a dick in the comments if anything is wrong, this is just my own technical opinion of the ‘event’.
Close, but what happened here was the runaway engine heated up until the pistons, expanding from overheating, seized mid-stroke causing a spark. It's similar to how an onshore oil facility exploded in Texas, there it was caused by a pickup truck left running which ingested gas fumes iirc.
I d rather say the pistons where over heating and expanding till they get stuck in german its called Kolbenklemmer and its so hard that it tears them you call them kolbenfresser
The engine overheated and the mechanisms locked up due to changing shape, as others have said, but I don't think it was the sparkplugs which set it off. All that gas isn't supposed to be in there anyways, and what happened with it is that, given the amount of force behind those pistons once it seized, they were launched and snapped hard enough to spark against each other and the edges of the chamber, in a section which is decidedly not intended to have sparks in it at all - the cylinders, where the explosions are supposed to be, are detached chambers. After that, well... it all went away.
I watched this movie on my couch a few years ago. I literally flinched in my seat during the shot of the whole thing exploding. I was not expecting it to be so big.
Peter Kemna sorry for your loss. My father also lost a relative in an accident in one of the furnaces in the refinery here in cartagena colombia. They were purging gasses from the unit and the damn thing blew. Btw im replying from my mothers account, i also have a brother who works as a rescuer on the emergency brigade in that same refinery.
Because this really happened, and nothing in Hollywood is as terrifying as "investors" appointing bean-counters to save money by skipping safety procedures on ultra-hazardous endeavors, then paying off the govn't to let them slide on crimes against nature and humanity.
The scene with the engine pistons failing is by far one of the best mechanicals frames I have ever seen in my entire life (im 23yo), shit was dead fire🔥
Imagine this kind of budget, directing ability, acting skill, and such, going into a reenactment movie about the 1988 Piper Alpha rig disaster, which was apparently even more cataclysmic (and much deadlier) than Deepwater Horizon...
Piper Alpha was significantly worse than Deepwater, with 3 massive pipelines rupturing and exploding the entire rig was quite literally blasted to pieces by its contents, and what remained melted in the heat (which crews could feel on ships more than a kilometer away!) and sank. Out of the 226 rig workers only a mere 61 survived, and an additional 2 rescue workers were killed in the second of the 3 explosions, compared to to fortunately low single digit death count of the Horizon. One can only dream that they'll do a movie on the Alpha with this level of detail, it would be a dream come true
A lot more people died in the Piper alpha disaster too, And IMO a lot more of a horrific way. The entire block of the rig where the living quarters were fell off The rig and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. 87 people drowned in frigid water and completely trapped. I think something that morbid would be really hard to adapt to the big screen in a way that shows reverence, but I would love to see someone portray that disaster in such a way
GAZ and the engine are to blame for everything... just kidding :) But seriously, you can blame everyone here... Both BP and the gas that burst out of the well at the wrong moment... You can also blame the air intakes (well, this is really crazy), and indeed anyone and anything....
Knowing what would eventually happen, I was still on the edge of my seat, the pressure literally building, the oil quickly covering the entire rig, unable to be stopped, the music getting tense, the generator pistons rapidly going out of control, everything beginning to snap, until finally, the music stopped as a spark started the flames that consumed the entire rig, truly scary
My dude, you need to start writing novels. Just the description itself is like a perfect representation of everything that led up to the blow out all in one paragraph. Absolutely amazing. Top tier, 5 star quality writing.
That is a tremendous amount of potential energy you're sitting on when you're drilling a live well, and as we've seen, when the Earth wants to it can just crush anything man has built in seconds.
You idiot. They’re either in Heaven or Hell. And this is not “one of” the scariest incidents, lol-it would be THE scariest. You must be a catholic..lol.
Well in real life those boats, once in the water, have a spray system that keeps pumping seawater over the boat. There is a video out there of them putting one of those boats in the middle of a fire on the water, they put a cat inside. After 2o minutes they checked and the cat was fine.
These boats are designed to be fireproof. some of these are called "freefall" lifeboats, where they lower them by sliding them off rails to launch them faster.
sorry for my english how was the ending outro music wrong? It sounded typically like sad music which only made the ending better, showing all the information of what happened and who died. Sorry mate, but you have the wrong idea.
I remember watching the footage of the rig burning and sinking and being amazed that so many of the workers survived. Of course it's terrible that anyone had to die given what we've learned about how many issues there were with the rig and how events played out that led to the explosion. This was something that was so preventable and of course we will never know exactly how those men died (save for Dale the crane operator), but we can certainly assume that they were desperately trying to save the rig and stop the blowout and that they were terrified.
The theatrics, sound, and special effects were impressive, there are quite a few inaccuracies, and please keep in mind the majority of it is from a single person’s viewpoint. A few inaccuracies off the top: The main Character, Mike Williams, was the Chief electronics technician on tour. One of 2 in the crew (24 hour position). It’s a position displaced by the OIM by the Chief Engineer, and Electrical Supervisor. The DWH was his first assignment offshore, and he’d only been there for less than 2 years. The meeting where the movie shows him telling the Company rep, OIM, and senior personnel all of the problems on the rig? He was never in those meetings, his position wasn’t high enough to attend those meetings. Also, many of the things he rattled off as problems needing to be addressed? That was his specific job duties to take care of those issues. The BOP (blow-out preventer) didn’t fail to function. There’s separate video out there where a camera was dropped down the bore when it was first brought to surface. the pipe did get sheared, and the blind shear rams did fully close. However on both sides the walls of the BOP ram body bore were washed out. This is more indicative that the attempt to close was after the blow-out was in progress (note they are called blow-out preventers, NOT blow out stoppers). This equipment, even to this day, is never tested with flowing fluids, but tested statically. The primary form of well control, which is usually the weighted mud in the column, had been displaced (removed) with sea water (much less weight) because of the false confidence in the cement plug. I still cannot watch the full movie though. 10 of the 11 men who died were personal friends. For years almost a 2nd family to me. The 11th joined the rig after I departed it for another assignment elsewhere.
The big nail in the coffin was the fact that the pipe in the blowout detector bent, meaning any action such as closing the pipe or cutting it won’t work. This was the case when they cut the pipe, with the bent shape of the pipe, it a section was not hit by the blade. Even though the partial cutting stopped the flow for a bit, it was penetrated and the rig blew up The pipe was cut two times... manually and by an automatic system Unfortunatly the automatic system was miswired, causing a problem, but miraculously, an error managed to make the system work, cutting the pipe, but you all know what happened...
@@donotreportmebro I mean technically yes it is designed to bend but the blide-rams on the BOP were not so therefore the crew, the yellow or blue pod could not close it
For those who don’t know why the engines seized its was because the diesel engine was breathing natural gas causing the diesel engines to over speed going past the rotating assemblies safe speed thus cooking the bearings and causing a detonation
3:32 this is such a visually stunning scene I’ve never seen this movie in full, only this scene specifically but it makes things so much more upsetting when you realize this is based on a true event (I’ve never heard of deep water horizon either so the tribute at the end was such a shock to me) Rest in peace to those poor souls
Lynch124 oh i see, i mean the Heavy metal bar just stopped the engine in the middle of its working which stopped the piston’s linear motion which resulted in the blockage of the combustion, ultimately explosion happened because of the energy which wasn’t getting area to expand and the incomplete stroke.
@@yashsingh3126 I thought the engine seized because the fumes from the oil caused the diesel engine to runaway (what they were showing going into the air intake), overheating and stressing the parts ultimately seizing it. Then the heat from the friction and combustion ignited the oil fumes in the air causing the explosion.
@@yashsingh3126 It wasn’t the steel beam that caused the engine to blow. The beam falling was something separate in the movie. In fact if memory serves, that beam actually landed in one of the control rooms. The engine just sped up until it jammed and the shaft snapped. Still, it’s surprising to think that one error is enough to make an entire mobile rig rip itself apart.
We always had a crew prayer at our safety meetings before shift change, I guess for events like this. BP was always very safety conscious on the rigs that I worked on but not in this case apparently. This movie tore my ass up! :-(
BP is the least safety conscious company in the Northern Hemisphere. Many of my friends and some of my family are geologists, petroleum engineers and well-workers. A client of mine was a lawyer on the team that beat them in court after their disastrous explosion here in a Houston plant. My father was one of the expert witnesses in the trial against BP over DWHorizon, an author on the spill report to Congress, and privy to communications between the rig and offshore management. They mostly agree on one thing: NEVER go near a BP operation. They have an atrocious reputation, and not just for safety. DWHorizon was the third (out of a historical total of 50-something at the time) Cat 4+ wells that exploded and killed many hands; DWHorizon only made US news because it was near a first world nation. Many of those other high-category wells also experienced near-catastrophic blowouts or accidents which had all hands ready to scramble for lifeboats. Less than half of them even produced a profit.
my father actually knew a guy who was on deepwater horizon when he worked in the gulf of. His name is Buddy and forget his last name but he's pretty burnt up and hes getting a medal for safety i believe
I’m 2 months late, but they got the largest fine in corporate history, which was $4 billion. The whole thing overall has costed them over $65 billion in total.
Trí Nguyễn 2 weeks before an bp oil refinery in texas city blew up killing 14 workers due to lack of maintanace it was sold after the deepwater horizon to have some money to pay for yhe cleanup
@@runcaz7802 people who got away with murder are shit designers / engineers who designer safety measures in blowout detector that didn't work, you guys like to blame people with money, but they are not designers and don't sell shitty designs
5:35 Should mention whats happening here. Those "blades" are of a Blind Cutting Ram, part of the Blowout Preventer. In an extreme emergency, they are activated to sever the drill pipe. Depicted here, the sheer force of the oil and seawater broke the blades, but in reality on the real Deepwater Horizon rig, what actually happened is that the drill pipe had been bent by the sheer pressure difference between the inside and outside of the drill pipe, meaning the Ram blades couldnt reach and fully cut the pipe.
Unbelievable what a decade that was. We had 9/11, the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan at their height, the great recession and then this...what the fuck man...then we had covid more recently in 2020, political violence, riots, unrest, all still occurring to this day. Can we never catch a break? 10 years of peace and simple life?
@@hr0727 Teating of the atomic bomb in the Pacific with a fleet there to watch and them getting radiation poisoning. And a experiment the gov did look it up.
@@darthkillerhog Does not have to be radiation to be the Yanks equivalent to Chernobyl, they rely off oil and look what happened. Massive marine damage and lives lost
It clearly shows how the generator exploded with cameras inside the machines..that's what I love..the gas came into the piston tubes which caused over ignition and caused over rev which either jammed or locked up cuz of some safety measure and then the spark plugs sparker up the natural gas which lead to insane explosion. Its the best very detailed scene from the movie
I worked in the petroleum industry for 15 years, lots of "incidents" happen that never get any press, safety is a priority so long as it doesn't cost any money or time, as loose as the actual operations are run it's a wonder there are not more tragedies.
yeah. then again safety should always come first over profit. in fact safety shouldnt even cost a dime because you cant put a price on someones life on the line
Lost 210 million gallons over 80 days or something like that. Thats 11 days of Americas consumption of oil. That’s how fast we use that up. Crazy. And 11 died for it. May they Rest In Peace. There’s got to be a different way.
I remember this when I was six. Me and my mother, sister and step father were all living in Florida right by the coastline, we didn’t swim for months because of the oil. Even in 2011 we still found a clump of oil in the gulf washed up on shore and had to run back home to shower off.
@@swatboy763 Apparently they where not designed to cut that type of pipe as well so even if there was no leak on the rams it wouldn't of cut it properly
The fucking shockwave at 2:13 will send chills down my spine every time. After this disaster is when I stopped working on an oil rig and this movie while dramatized really does a great job at instilling the fear of that worse case scenario.
I thought I would want to see it, my morbid curiosity just wanted to see a huge explosion, but this is just awful. Knowing it actually happened, that 11 people and countless animals died. The images are borderline nauseating, imagine the smell, the sounds, the heat, It must have been horrible
I remember the news reports of the fallout from this. The mess it made of the Gulf Coast. The utter carnage. All the people out burning British flags for no particular reason.
The first explosion is one of the impeccably directed scenes that I've ever seen.
it gets you everytime. even when you know its coming
Is it just a kick or ......thushhhhhh
Right?! I just discovered this film. (Been out of the movie rotation since Hollywood took a 3k mph swan dive into stupidity.) But I have to admit the build up and drop was just ART! I mean, it was almost like the moments leading up to a major car accident. Slo-motion madness and then the chaos starts.
In the theatre I jumped out of my seat!! Very well done and scary AF
Yeah! It feels very similar to the explosion scene in Chernobyl. They probably took some inspiration from this based on how good both are!
‘So what was the worst mistake you ever made at work?’
‘About $60 billion’
‘What?’
Still gives me chills and to think this really happened, those poor souls on that rig
If it happened @Sbamabelle but of the destruction and catastrophic that you see in the movie that is based on real events, actually 11 people died in that
@@jonathanancona9573 THAT surprised the hell outta me. That looked like it would've killed everyone in one fell swoop.
It was probably just as scary as what happened on the Titanic.
@@kurtschumacher9484except you could’ve actually survived the titanic
in the middle east 20 people die daily from US corporate malpractice. they are just less important.
I actually do like the shots where they simulated the camera being inside the tube and the machines. I thought it gave these forces a more visual representation of their power. Sure, they look a bit strange, they could do with some fine tuning, but I think they are a nice addition.
I agree. It’s a great way to show what mechanical inter workings without having someone explain it.
@@Obi_Wan_Kenobi_027 Obi Wannnnn, my friend Kenobi.
How are you ma Nigga?
@@Fahhad007 lmao
@@sandhanitizer15 hahahaha
Cheers to 35 years
I watched this movie with my family on a rainy night, and when the movie finished, I said how cool it looked and how well all the practical effects were done, and then the tribute began. When it showed the photos and names of the people who died on the rig, and the real footage of it burning. It was terrifying
My dad helped clean the oil spill and he remembered seeing the burning rig and it brought back his memories of it
Mr Jimmy calling out the names on the Damon Bankston was a very powerful scene cause you know they ain't answering.
"is there anyone here from the drill shack"
Silence. Tearing up just thinking about it.
@@therealthreadkillaExactly. And when they were just praying their hearts out right after it while everything was STILL just blowing up over and over again... God Almighty that was sad. They hadn't cause the lifeboats were still saving everyone, but it was like they'd just given up on everything.
The ultimate Mechanical Engineering movie! I am teaching high school engineering, and I will make sure every last one of my students watches this tragic movie, in order to learn about the dilemmas of project management.
Good for you.
I think alot of risk management and project management classes skip over the human aspect of these disasters. Seeing people die on camera in these movies has a much stronger impact than reading off casualty figures.
Having actually lived in Gulfport Mississippi I can say for 100% certain that this is not a lie.
I posted on the wrong comment thread my bad lmao
Engineering feats drilling and producing offshore. People used to ask me 'what's it like' ?
You can tell them, but, like a lot of things, you can never describe the sounds and smells or the scale of it all.
So I'm a little bit confused...is the stuff coming out of the pipe in the blowout oil or mud or both?
“My crane is gonna take the derrick”. “My crane”. Dude took responsibility to the highest degree and saved the lives aboard.
At the cost of his life
This shit literally just traumatized me my dad works on oil rigs
But blowouts aren't the only problem with rigs like this one.
In 1983, an accident on a Norwegian oil rig called the Byford Dolphin led to the violent deaths of 5 people. Seems a failure of one of the decompression chambers caused the divers bodies to literally explode from the sudden release of pressure.
Colleen Ross Lol
"Saving private Ryan" traumatized my grandpa because he was a legionaire.
"The Aviator" and "Airport" traumatized my father because he was a mechanic at international airport.
Your comment is shit, dude.
That's nothing, look up Piper Alpha.
@@jzenhenko what makes you feel this way
The building of tension when the gas in the air went into the generators and caused them to over rev was truly brilliant filmmaking.
Seeing this movie in IMAX was incredible, to say the least.
@Tyson Hutton haha exactly. i have to watch it again, this time w my family members ^-^
Wish i could have felt that experience in IMAX, and thank GOD not in real life.
I think seeing this in IMAX would give me nightmares..
I would kill to see this movie in IMAX
Michael Bay: You can't make explosives in movies look aweso--
Peter Berg: Hold my beer.
Out of my my way Bay The “Berg” has got this
Ive worked for the oil field since i got out of highschool, so 14 years now. Every so often i rewatch this movie to remind me how important it is to be thorough when building or repairing the equipment I service.
Don't you know it! My youngest is a precision welder and got certified to pressure test on offshore rigs. Mom worked for Kerr McGee for many years, so she knows the drilling world well too. When he got an offer to travel to Norway, I think it was, to work on an offshore rig there, Mom and I both cringed--it paid very, very well, but we're both aware of how potentially dangerous it is. I worked in industrial security/DOT transportation so my boys grew up with "Safety Sally", LOL--I was so paranoid about fire that I kept a metal butt can in several places to lessen the possibility of a fire. Thank goodness a lot of that rubbed off on my son, he's very safety-conscious as well. Be careful out there!
Having worked on land drilling rigs and offshore for many years there is one huge difference between the two. On a land rig, you can actually RUN. Offshore, as the saying goes, 'Jail, with the possibility of drowning.' No where to run. And if you're in the North Atlantic or North Sea, going into the water is really not an option. Not a good one anyway. If you choose THAT that means you have no choice because that is just a slower death. You're just choosing what death that is. Burning, freezing, or drowning. What would you choose ? No need to answer, it's chosen for you.
satexman
Damn. Wow.
I respect anyone who works on the ocean rigs.
Not an easy job, and it’s incredibly risky. You guys EARN your pay the hard way.
Thought about becoming a welder for these oil rigs. Any advice
Worse is the fact that sometimes the props of rescue ships or hell even the sonar can kill you.
Marge bouvier Simpson how does sonar kill someone?
@@MicrosoftPaintOfficial Rescue ships tend not to have strong enough sonar to do any damage. On warships and submarines, an "active" sonar pulse (where the sonar sends out noise to hear an echo) it can be loud enough to kill, for example, divers nearby. Literally melts your insides.
“We have an incident on the deep water horizon”
That’s a bit more than just an “incident”
More like All Hell breaking loose
Not laughing at what Happened...but the delivery of your comment is truly hilarious
Chernobyl disaster on water
"Uhhh...it seems that the deep water horizon has gone chernobyl, we need backup"
@Ww2 Battleships yeah
What should’ve been said:
We have a huge fucking emergency at deep water horizon jesus fucking christ WE NEED ALL COAST GUARD VESSELS HERE NOW FOR FUCKS SAKE, HURRY UP YOU BASTARDS THE WHOLE THINGS ON FUCKING FIRE HOLY SHIT. HURRY THE FUCK UP LIKE 10 PEOPLE ARE DEAD HURRY THE FUCK UPPP!
I love how the director tries his best to make the oil look like an alive conscious vessel... made the audience try to see that the thing is alive and has a soul.
Almost like the burning core in HBO's Chernobyl....
And a family too.
oil brain capasity= go up
The entire rig is sort of portrayed as actively fighting the pressure of the oil. The shots inside showing layer after layer desperately holding it back and eventually breaking, the bits with the overworked engine until it finally blows too, and many other details show the rig as a cohesive piece that feels almost like a body, doing its best and ultimately failing. Very well-made. The parts after the blast, with the rig drifting and tearing itself apart, also include the fire seeming animatedly hungry, swirling around the structure and rushing through to wherever it can burn.
Mother Earth showing what she’s capable of
I don't think the initial blowout was this dramatic but since it''s a movie, why not. Man, when I saw those vapors getting sucked into air intake vents, you know what was coming next. For the workers on the Deepwater Horizon, it must have been hell on Earth.
Agreed. Just by the explosion alone it looked like it killed everyone on board. But I assume it’s just for dramatic effect the intensity at least, I know some if not most of it happened. I couldn’t imagine experiencing it in person.
The initial blow out by reports threw a plume of the mud over 70m. (240 ft) into the air. And a similar explosion In a refinery Texas City in 2005 produced one of the largest non nuclear explosions ever.
Edit. Its actual similar to the method to produce the highest yield bombs we can make called fuel-air explosives. This explosion was methane misting all over the rig.
@@elonsus9747 i heard they actually had to tone down the size of the explosion in the movie to make it seem more real, so it would have been significantly larger than the movie depicted in real life
On my rig we have an automatic shutoff louver for the engine air intake. I don't know why or if they was any on the Deepwater horizon, my guess is yes since it was a modern rig.
@@jeandubois8810it probably did. But in the movie they say how the rig needed heaps of work on fixing stuff that didn’t work so could have been there, but broken/Faulty.
The sense of building pressure elicited here is insane.
I am sorry I did not get to see it in the theaters. I heard stories that during the explosion/flash over sequence people were jumping out of their seats or ducking behind them.
It’s a miracle anyone survived. May those who didn’t rest in peace in God’s eternal, loving embrace.
Not religious, but I hope if there is a god there with him.
As you guys would say, amen.
@@jzenhenko the reason they are doing it is because its used by almost everyone in the world, i bet you use oil related things everyday.
@@jzenhenko I’m sorry but what you’re saying is downright awful. While the oil industry is in no way good for the environment it is also in no way respectful to those who lost their lives in the accident and the families of those men for you to say what you are saying. The oil spill did cause significant damage to the gulf but you have no right to condemn these men the way you are.
LA-SaintJust that is okay. Anyone who has your respect has clearly done something wrong
The movie makes it seem much worse than it actually was, at least in terms of human casaulties. Only 11 people out of around 150 perished in the explosion. That is tragic, without a doubt but the movie makes it seem much worse than it was.
This whole movie is shot like a horror movie and I love it. Just the ambience around 4:10 feels like you're in hell, and you're hearing the screams of the fucking damned
Bro are you good?
Bro you ok wtf
@@joshuahernandez4573 lol I'm saying like wtf hes need to get evaluated
@@Shel230 I'm not wrong tho am I?
@@Jacob-rz4uz ya you definitely are
"What is the cost of lies?" - Valery Legasov
Who lied ??
@@DynamicSeq British Petroleum
@@wassupMannn Care to elaborate ??
@@DynamicSeq They basically lied over the true extent of this disaster. BP deliberately claimed that far less oil was leaking than was actually leaking. Sufficient countermeasures could have been applied much earlier but nobody except BP knew how serious it actually is. They would pay a large amount of money for every single barrel that leaked into the ocean so they simply decided to lie about the emount of barrels and it got even worse over the time.
@wassupMannn Less outright lies and cover ups that lead to Chernobyl but certainly a lot of fatal mistakes and errors that cost lives and caused massive ecological damage. The worst were the mistakes during the pressure test and not letting Schlumberger do a proper analysis of the concrete work, but what we can we say, rush jobs, the mother of all f*** ups.
I had watched this when it came out, but I was a bit younger so I couldn't appreciate just how well shot this is. This movie recreates a situation that other movies have tried and failed to do. Getting a feeling of fear from those watching is so tricky to do
If you want to test your home cinema sound system, this is the scene to do that. It is glorious in surround sound.
TheTuubster I made the mistake of having this movie up to like 60% volume on my 5.2.2 home theater system. I think my windows about blew out on this scene
I saw this movie in IMAX and legit it was insane. I was fairly close to the screen too. Loud is an understatement.
When you toy with nature, nature toys with you back...mercilessly.
I had just thought that's what happens when you poking holes in the bottom of the sea floor messing with God's work
Well. There’s a safe way, and a dumb way. That well was a monster. And they were forced to cut too many corners, and the go way faster than they should have.
i think you are right bro but lets face it you writing this comment seng electrical power coming from crud oil which come frome deeoly undergroind ... live !
@@houstonsanderfield6074 When you ignore nature, you get what's coming to you. They cut too many costs and put safety on the back burner. This is the fault of BP management and engineering.
You got that right, well said!
All because BP wanted to save a buck.
Colin Jacobs and lot bucks they didn’t save
I am going to play Devil's Advocate here and point out that it is not really all about greed. It is about the crises of Project Management. Projects particularly large projects) generally incur project uncertainty. Because of project uncertainty, projects fall behind schedule and go over budget. The Project Manager gets put under pressure to make progress. Under pressure to make progress, he gets tempted to cut corners. When corners get cut, disaster sometimes ensues. It was the same thing with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Cutting corners in order to remedy political pressure is what this tragedy is really all about. You should pity these people, including the project managers who were responsible.
Hyundai made this oil rig. One of the inexpensive rigs made. It's possible the Hyundai rig was produced with inferior metallurgy. Causing this disaster.
@@crystalamulet6163 They already went through this witch hunt back in 2010. 3 companies were under scrutiny - BP, Halliburton, Transocean - and each one of them tried to blame another. Obama was sick of their blame shifting (on the upside, that was one of the times he was actually a good president) and wanted some form of accountability. Watch the movie Deepwater Horizon in its entirety, and you will probably get a better idea of who is to blame.
@@perfectsplit5515 Do you seriously believe everything in that movie. Its's the Korean Hyundai oil rig that caused the damage.
I've re-watched this movie at least 5 times and I do NOT regret any time. This movie is amazing.
For those wondering about the generator explosion: The added gas, which came in through the air intake, caused the pistons the over rev, until eventually, it locked up as a.. safety mechanism, I believe, to prevent a runaway engine. The second it locked, as the spark plugs were still doing the sparky stuff, it shot the pistons out, and exploded.
Don’t be a dick in the comments if anything is wrong, this is just my own technical opinion of the ‘event’.
Close, but what happened here was the runaway engine heated up until the pistons, expanding from overheating, seized mid-stroke causing a spark.
It's similar to how an onshore oil facility exploded in Texas, there it was caused by a pickup truck left running which ingested gas fumes iirc.
@@Rammstein0963. Ah. Makes sense- Thanks for the technicality fix lol
Thanks! Interesting reading!
I d rather say the pistons where over heating and expanding till they get stuck in german its called Kolbenklemmer and its so hard that it tears them you call them kolbenfresser
The engine overheated and the mechanisms locked up due to changing shape, as others have said, but I don't think it was the sparkplugs which set it off. All that gas isn't supposed to be in there anyways, and what happened with it is that, given the amount of force behind those pistons once it seized, they were launched and snapped hard enough to spark against each other and the edges of the chamber, in a section which is decidedly not intended to have sparks in it at all - the cylinders, where the explosions are supposed to be, are detached chambers. After that, well... it all went away.
I watched this movie on my couch a few years ago. I literally flinched in my seat during the shot of the whole thing exploding. I was not expecting it to be so big.
3:32 best explosion sound ever
Huh, didnt see that movie yet. Now i've got to see it :D Looks really cool!
Kimer Lorens looks cool? IT is a Masterpiece of Movie.
even better?
Kimer Lorens Yes,Much better. On this Platform was my Uncle. He died at the first Explosion. And everytime when i see this Movie,i see my Uncle.
Peter Kemna sorry for your loss. My father also lost a relative in an accident in one of the furnaces in the refinery here in cartagena colombia. They were purging gasses from the unit and the damn thing blew. Btw im replying from my mothers account, i also have a brother who works as a rescuer on the emergency brigade in that same refinery.
Kimer Lorens The Movie was made after the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon in 2011.
this movie should have won tons of awards for the audio alone
how does this movie about an oil spill have me on the edge of my seat more than 99% of horror movies coming out these days.
Because you know that this is what those poor people on that rig and the 11 dead had experienced
Because this really happened, and nothing in Hollywood is as terrifying as "investors" appointing bean-counters to save money by skipping safety procedures on ultra-hazardous endeavors, then paying off the govn't to let them slide on crimes against nature and humanity.
because it is a terror movie
The scene with the engine pistons failing is by far one of the best mechanicals frames I have ever seen in my entire life (im 23yo), shit was dead fire🔥
Imagine this kind of budget, directing ability, acting skill, and such, going into a reenactment movie about the 1988 Piper Alpha rig disaster, which was apparently even more cataclysmic (and much deadlier) than Deepwater Horizon...
Piper Alpha was significantly worse than Deepwater, with 3 massive pipelines rupturing and exploding the entire rig was quite literally blasted to pieces by its contents, and what remained melted in the heat (which crews could feel on ships more than a kilometer away!) and sank. Out of the 226 rig workers only a mere 61 survived, and an additional 2 rescue workers were killed in the second of the 3 explosions, compared to to fortunately low single digit death count of the Horizon. One can only dream that they'll do a movie on the Alpha with this level of detail, it would be a dream come true
@@theshermantanker7043 The fact that anyone survived Piper Alpha is pure insanity.
A lot more people died in the Piper alpha disaster too, And IMO a lot more of a horrific way. The entire block of the rig where the living quarters were fell off The rig and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic. 87 people drowned in frigid water and completely trapped. I think something that morbid would be really hard to adapt to the big screen in a way that shows reverence, but I would love to see someone portray that disaster in such a way
This movie was done so well it even made Mark Wahlberg look like a good actor.
🤣
Lmfao
WOOOOWWW
RIP to all who died because of this, both human and animals
GAZ and the engine are to blame for everything... just kidding :)
But seriously, you can blame everyone here... Both BP and the gas that burst out of the well at the wrong moment...
You can also blame the air intakes (well, this is really crazy), and indeed anyone and anything....
One of the most cinematic, yet scary movies
Knowing what would eventually happen, I was still on the edge of my seat, the pressure literally building, the oil quickly covering the entire rig, unable to be stopped, the music getting tense, the generator pistons rapidly going out of control, everything beginning to snap, until finally, the music stopped as a spark started the flames that consumed the entire rig, truly scary
My dude, you need to start writing novels. Just the description itself is like a perfect representation of everything that led up to the blow out all in one paragraph. Absolutely amazing. Top tier, 5 star quality writing.
Can't even watch makes me so anxious. Very well done though, Bravo
Hlw
The drill crew stayed at their positions to try to control the well, and died to a man.
All of them got instantly waprized because of the heat
That is a tremendous amount of potential energy you're sitting on when you're drilling a live well, and as we've seen, when the Earth wants to it can just crush anything man has built in seconds.
Wow just wow this movie was emotional and well It seems cool but at the end of the day that thing was DREADFUL and condolences to the ones who died.
2:41 "ow"
im going to hell for laughing so hard at this
i still pray for those people...my cousin witnessed this happen and he said it was on of the scariest disasters he ever seen.
So he was on the boat next to it when it blew up
You idiot. They’re either in Heaven or Hell. And this is not “one of” the scariest incidents, lol-it would be THE scariest. You must be a catholic..lol.
Outro with girl twerking to techno music just after the remembrance text..
Hang on, Virgil? What are you doing looking through NMPD city files? This was 500 years ago smh.
That explosion scene is incredible
What if they covered the lifeboat in dawn dish soap to keep all the flaming oil away? Would that work? Genuinely curious
I’m going to hell for laughing at this....
Well in real life those boats, once in the water, have a spray system that keeps pumping seawater over the boat.
There is a video out there of them putting one of those boats in the middle of a fire on the water, they put a cat inside. After 2o minutes they checked and the cat was fine.
These boats are designed to be fireproof. some of these are called "freefall" lifeboats, where they lower them by sliding them off rails to launch them faster.
Sorry mate but u chose wrong outro to this video
sorry for my english how was the ending outro music wrong? It sounded typically like sad music which only made the ending better, showing all the information of what happened and who died. Sorry mate, but you have the wrong idea.
Why was it bad, seemed alright with me?
Seems you have hearing problem lol.
probably means the 8:31 intro with the dancing girl
It's his channel leave him/her alone.
Mate lmao
I remember watching the footage of the rig burning and sinking and being amazed that so many of the workers survived. Of course it's terrible that anyone had to die given what we've learned about how many issues there were with the rig and how events played out that led to the explosion. This was something that was so preventable and of course we will never know exactly how those men died (save for Dale the crane operator), but we can certainly assume that they were desperately trying to save the rig and stop the blowout and that they were terrified.
The theatrics, sound, and special effects were impressive, there are quite a few inaccuracies, and please keep in mind the majority of it is from a single person’s viewpoint. A few inaccuracies off the top:
The main Character, Mike Williams, was the Chief electronics technician on tour. One of 2 in the crew (24 hour position). It’s a position displaced by the OIM by the Chief Engineer, and Electrical Supervisor. The DWH was his first assignment offshore, and he’d only been there for less than 2 years. The meeting where the movie shows him telling the Company rep, OIM, and senior personnel all of the problems on the rig? He was never in those meetings, his position wasn’t high enough to attend those meetings. Also, many of the things he rattled off as problems needing to be addressed? That was his specific job duties to take care of those issues.
The BOP (blow-out preventer) didn’t fail to function. There’s separate video out there where a camera was dropped down the bore when it was first brought to surface. the pipe did get sheared, and the blind shear rams did fully close. However on both sides the walls of the BOP ram body bore were washed out. This is more indicative that the attempt to close was after the blow-out was in progress (note they are called blow-out preventers, NOT blow out stoppers). This equipment, even to this day, is never tested with flowing fluids, but tested statically. The primary form of well control, which is usually the weighted mud in the column, had been displaced (removed) with sea water (much less weight) because of the false confidence in the cement plug.
I still cannot watch the full movie though. 10 of the 11 men who died were personal friends. For years almost a 2nd family to me. The 11th joined the rig after I departed it for another assignment elsewhere.
How they managed to replicate the sounds of underwater tension lines are amazing.
One of my top 10 favorites of 2016. Really great film.
The man on the crane… 😢
He saved whatever was left.
He had a family
😢
The big nail in the coffin was the fact that the pipe in the blowout detector bent, meaning any action such as closing the pipe or cutting it won’t work.
This was the case when they cut the pipe, with the bent shape of the pipe, it a section was not hit by the blade. Even though the partial cutting stopped the flow for a bit, it was penetrated and the rig blew up
The pipe was cut two times... manually and by an automatic system
Unfortunatly the automatic system was miswired, causing a problem, but miraculously, an error managed to make the system work, cutting the pipe, but you all know what happened...
Yea that system was called “the blue pod” and “the yellow pod”
it was designed to bent, the whole blowout detector was a shit design
@@donotreportmebro I mean technically yes it is designed to bend but the blide-rams on the BOP were not so therefore the crew, the yellow or blue pod could not close it
The entire rig went up in a fireball.
I see you guys watched the USCSB's video as well....
For those who don’t know why the engines seized its was because the diesel engine was breathing natural gas causing the diesel engines to over speed going past the rotating assemblies safe speed thus cooking the bearings and causing a detonation
3:32 this is such a visually stunning scene
I’ve never seen this movie in full, only this scene specifically but it makes things so much more upsetting when you realize this is based on a true event (I’ve never heard of deep water horizon either so the tribute at the end was such a shock to me)
Rest in peace to those poor souls
You should go and see the movie. It's really really good.
@@humanitysmagicaldefender4980 I just might!! :D
Damn 😶
I watched this in class, the blowout/explosion effects were really cool.
3:25
Not something you want to hear in an engine
Vengeance of Eternal Darkness would an engine explode like that if a heavy metal object falls on its Shaft?
Lynch124 oh i see, i mean the Heavy metal bar just stopped the engine in the middle of its working which stopped the piston’s linear motion which resulted in the blockage of the combustion, ultimately explosion happened because of the energy which wasn’t getting area to expand and the incomplete stroke.
@@yashsingh3126 I thought the engine seized because the fumes from the oil caused the diesel engine to runaway (what they were showing going into the air intake), overheating and stressing the parts ultimately seizing it. Then the heat from the friction and combustion ignited the oil fumes in the air causing the explosion.
@@yashsingh3126 It wasn’t the steel beam that caused the engine to blow. The beam falling was something separate in the movie. In fact if memory serves, that beam actually landed in one of the control rooms. The engine just sped up until it jammed and the shaft snapped. Still, it’s surprising to think that one error is enough to make an entire mobile rig rip itself apart.
Heat was a cause to
We always had a crew prayer at our safety meetings before shift change, I guess for events like this. BP was always very safety conscious on the rigs that I worked on but not in this case apparently. This movie tore my ass up! :-(
BP doesn't care at all.
BP is the least safety conscious company in the Northern Hemisphere. Many of my friends and some of my family are geologists, petroleum engineers and well-workers. A client of mine was a lawyer on the team that beat them in court after their disastrous explosion here in a Houston plant. My father was one of the expert witnesses in the trial against BP over DWHorizon, an author on the spill report to Congress, and privy to communications between the rig and offshore management. They mostly agree on one thing: NEVER go near a BP operation. They have an atrocious reputation, and not just for safety. DWHorizon was the third (out of a historical total of 50-something at the time) Cat 4+ wells that exploded and killed many hands; DWHorizon only made US news because it was near a first world nation. Many of those other high-category wells also experienced near-catastrophic blowouts or accidents which had all hands ready to scramble for lifeboats. Less than half of them even produced a profit.
my father actually knew a guy who was on deepwater horizon when he worked in the gulf of. His name is Buddy and forget his last name but he's pretty burnt up and hes getting a medal for safety i believe
Michael bays Wet dream
Literally a wet dream
Peter Berg is way better
This is flammable
white text on white background? bruh
I've seen this movie many times and it remains one of my favorite movies
5:25 where men cry
one thing that I really liked about this was how they showed all the engineering and mechanical failures
the fact that BP only got a slap on the wrist for this is what kills me
I’m 2 months late, but they got the largest fine in corporate history, which was $4 billion. The whole thing overall has costed them over $65 billion in total.
@@Ussr0312 That was one big ass slap. And not on the wrist either.
wow... this was too real-- i can't believe this happened real life. the details were enormous
I remember this, it was a disaster, BP took a big hit because of this
Trí Nguyễn 2 weeks before an bp oil refinery in texas city blew up killing 14 workers due to lack of maintanace it was sold after the deepwater horizon to have some money to pay for yhe cleanup
Big hit is an understatement
BP didn't take a hit, they got away with murder. The workers who died. THEY took the hit.
Oh no a big hit means you can come back eventually this was a career ender.
@@runcaz7802 people who got away with murder are shit designers / engineers who designer safety measures in blowout detector that didn't work, you guys like to blame people with money, but they are not designers and don't sell shitty designs
3:27 when your kid plays with a cigarette lighter
Alexander Smith but in the middle of an oil pool .
Not funny
@@li__chaotic__il6492 but pkease dont be rude
@@li__chaotic__il6492 yes funny
3:33 When you tries to solve problem after kid plays cigarette lighter
I re-enact the blowout scenes every morning.
This feels like some Final Destination movie
Probably felt like that for them, no where to escape stuck on there
this got me crying so hard bro😭
5:35 Should mention whats happening here. Those "blades" are of a Blind Cutting Ram, part of the Blowout Preventer. In an extreme emergency, they are activated to sever the drill pipe. Depicted here, the sheer force of the oil and seawater broke the blades, but in reality on the real Deepwater Horizon rig, what actually happened is that the drill pipe had been bent by the sheer pressure difference between the inside and outside of the drill pipe, meaning the Ram blades couldnt reach and fully cut the pipe.
Surprised it didn’t even show the computers in the redundant pods were broken/dead/miswired.
This needs to be pinned, because I doubt anyone would care to watch the CSB report/video.
Unbelievable what a decade that was. We had 9/11, the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan at their height, the great recession and then this...what the fuck man...then we had covid more recently in 2020, political violence, riots, unrest, all still occurring to this day. Can we never catch a break? 10 years of peace and simple life?
This, I'm tempted to say, was America's Chernobyl.
No our Chernobyl was dropping a nuke on our pacific fleet and also during the 60s releasing toxins on towns and innocent people as an experiment
Darthkillerhog P what the fuck are you talking about lmao
@@hr0727 Teating of the atomic bomb in the Pacific with a fleet there to watch and them getting radiation poisoning. And a experiment the gov did look it up.
@@darthkillerhog Does not have to be radiation to be the Yanks equivalent to Chernobyl, they rely off oil and look what happened. Massive marine damage and lives lost
@@theashman7836 Everyone relys on oil what are you talking about russia is no better along with every other country
When you look at the scale of that explosion you would think that no one survived
The drill team didn't survive. They were the closest to the explosion.
@@jarethloveland4159 how
It clearly shows how the generator exploded with cameras inside the machines..that's what I love..the gas came into the piston tubes which caused over ignition and caused over rev which either jammed or locked up cuz of some safety measure and then the spark plugs sparker up the natural gas which lead to insane explosion. Its the best very detailed scene from the movie
There is no spark plugs on a diesel engine, Compression ignition only not spark ignition like petrol or gas engines.
@@kiwidiesel oh right yeah lol
I worked in the petroleum industry for 15 years, lots of "incidents" happen that never get any press, safety is a priority so long as it doesn't cost any money or time, as loose as the actual operations are run it's a wonder there are not more tragedies.
yeah. then again safety should always come first over profit. in fact safety shouldnt even cost a dime because you cant put a price on someones life on the line
Everything that could go wrong did do wrong and more
I bought the movie on blu-ray just to see and hear that explosion in better quality.
It shook my entire flat. Love that scene.
Michael Bay, take note. THIS is how you do explosions.
BRUTAL SPECIAL EFFECTS!!!
Deepwater Horizon is a perfect example of corporate greed overriding safety.
The Cinematography in this movie is Brilliant.
Macondo will always be remembered. The Transocean "Honor" was there to pay respect to the victims.
Lost 210 million gallons over 80 days or something like that. Thats 11 days of Americas consumption of oil. That’s how fast we use that up. Crazy. And 11 died for it. May they Rest In Peace. There’s got to be a different way.
I remember this when I was six. Me and my mother, sister and step father were all living in Florida right by the coastline, we didn’t swim for months because of the oil. Even in 2011 we still found a clump of oil in the gulf washed up on shore and had to run back home to shower off.
I have worked with a couple boys who were there. I hear this movie got it pretty close
Incredible action and visuals in this film, but just makes me sad knowing it actually happened and those who lost their lives 😔🙏
And those ultimately to blame can still sleep at night not caring about those who died.
May they rot for their negligence.
I gotta buy this movie ive never seen it before but hot damn it looks good!
Seeing this in the theather in 7.1 was absolutely incredible. When the big explosion came, my jaw dropped.
The sound team was incredible.
What absolutely amazes me not one person hit the Evac alarm as before the fire
screw the rules i'd cut the line immediately especially after the damn thing exploded
the problem was the blind sheer rams were misaligned due to the pipe bending before hand
Lelouch Strife Except you couldn’t.
@@swatboy763 Apparently they where not designed to cut that type of pipe as well so even if there was no leak on the rams it wouldn't of cut it properly
The fucking shockwave at 2:13 will send chills down my spine every time. After this disaster is when I stopped working on an oil rig and this movie while dramatized really does a great job at instilling the fear of that worse case scenario.
I thought I would want to see it, my morbid curiosity just wanted to see a huge explosion, but this is just awful. Knowing it actually happened, that 11 people and countless animals died. The images are borderline nauseating, imagine the smell, the sounds, the heat, It must have been horrible
I remember when it was on the news that it exploded but more coverage was on the oil spill itself
2:12 We know this part didn't happen because no one saw it, but man this shot was awesome
This was an incredible movie & RIP to the people that died on the Deepwater Horizon
I remember the news reports of the fallout from this.
The mess it made of the Gulf Coast.
The utter carnage.
All the people out burning British flags for no particular reason.
Bp is headquartered in the uk
Very well made