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What is a blowout preventer?

Apr 30, 2014 · 5 min · 5.4 MB
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The massive oil spill that flooded the Gulf of Mexico should have been prevented by a fail-safe device called a Blowout Preventer, or BOP. Find out how this safety mechanism is supposed to work -- and why it didn't -- in this episode.

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