HOUSTON (Reuters) - A supervisor aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on Friday recounted a failed attempt to activate a fail-safe system that might have prevented BP Plc's well from unleashing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Christopher Pleasant, subsea supervisor for rig owner Transocean Ltd, told a federal panel in Kenner, Louisiana, he activated the rig's emergency disconnect system, known as EDS, but the system lacked the hydraulic pressure to operate.
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