Reply #11: Then why weren't Costner's smaller vacuum separators used instead? [View All]

[Waiting For Everyman]

I've seen no coverage that any of his 20+ machines of various sizes were used at all. I saw coverage of him down there, offering them. So were they used? Or did the media just fail to show that they are being used?

Excuses won't clean up the mess. And it for sure would've been better to start sucking up as much of the spill as possible on DAY TWO, to minimize the amount floating around. The "industry" was offered Costner's machines even long prior to the spill, but didn't include them in any contingency plan... oh, I forgot, because this spill "couldn't happen". Gee, we never had a spill before, it's impossible. :sarcasm:

I'm not buying that nothing could've been done about sucking up the spill right away. And neither is most of the public.

If everything that could've been done had been done, then the mess we were left with would've been what was unavoidable. Except that I have to wonder if Salazer was sent to clean up MMS, then why were 19 Democratics who wrote to MMS 4 months ago about BP's more dangerous sister rig, the Atlantis, ignored? Those Democrats were sounding the correct alarms and doing their job. Why did they get no help from Salazar, is what I want to know?