| Contents |
Author's note: A perilous crossing -- Prologue: The end -- The beginning -- Oil and water -- Cold comfort -- Sea legs -- King Neptune -- Macondo -- X marks the spot -- The flood -- A captain's colors -- Latching up -- Kicks -- A long string -- Uneasy partings -- Positive test -- Negative test -- Sailor take warning -- "Something ain't right" -- Mayday -- Abandon ship -- Mustering -- Going home -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract |
Draws on first-person accounts to examine the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and the offshore-drilling culture that laid the groundwork for the disaster. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010051657 |
| ISBN | 9780062063007 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0062063006 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780062063014 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0062063014 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780062063021 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0062063022 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 9780062066541 (large print) |
| ISBN | 0062066544 (large print) |
| Standard identifier# |
3456577 |
