Petrobras oil rig failure (Brazil)

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WM_Su2014_14 · Corrosion Cracking and More, Summer 2014 · §2.p11

Comparison case to Kielland — four years later, sunny weather, listing 45° over three days, everyone survived. Failure traced to a left-open hatch.

Four years later, off Brazil, Petrobras had a similar failure. There are nice pictures from three days of sunny weather of this thing listing at about 45 degrees — a half-billion-dollar oil rig listing at 45 degrees. There was nothing they could do. Everybody got off, no one died in that one. But they left a hatch open. So there's a reason you're supposed to yell at people if they leave hatches open.