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With just a little over one year since the tragic Deepwater Horizon disaster that claimed the lives of 11 oil rig workers,  Doug Brown, one of the 10 most injured survivors of the blast, has become an advocate for improvements in offshore safety.

Matthew Jacobs, Douglas Brown and Daniel Barron one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Brown has been living with the first-hand memories of that deadly night and for the past year he has brought his message and fight to Congress and via the mainstream media. ... Read Full Story

HOUSTON, TX – Survivors of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 have a message for the companies involved: start taking some responsibility and stop with the finger pointing. People’s lives are at stake.

Left to right: Matthew Jacobs, Douglas Brown and Daniel Barron for the Anderson Cooper 360 interview one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

This is the message from a recent interview on Anderson Cooper 360 with 3 of the survivors of the disaster. ... Read Full Story

HOUSTON, TX – Four of the survivors from the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in 2010 got together one year after the disaster on April 20, 2011 for an appearance on the CBS Early Show to tell their stories with host, Erica Hill.

Oil rig survivors one year later after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

In telling their accounts of their experiences with Transocean, the owner of the rig, one gets the impression that the company could have been a little more sensitive in their handling of the men so soon after the disaster. ... Read Full Story

HOUSTON, TX – On PBS Newshour, Hari Sreenivasan conducts an interview with Chris Choy, his wife, Monica and his attorney, maritime lawyer Steve Gordon.

Maritime lawyer Steve Gordon on PBS Newshour interview with Hari Sreenivasan

One Year Later after the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, oil rig worker, Chris Choy has had no income and his case is stalled in Federal Court. ... Read Full Story

Transocean Coast Guard Report

Maritime attorneys, Gordon, Elias & Seely, on behalf of Party-In-Interest (PII) Douglas Brown, have continually attempted throughout the entire Joint Investigation Task Force (JIT) hearings to prove that the Deepwater Horizon was misclassified by the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), the flag state.

RMI had every opportunity to volunteer the information the first week of hearings held by the JIT which included testimony from the RMI. RMI failed to do so and this failure was intentional. Only after repeated written requests from PII Brown did RMI publicly admit its misclassification. Even though it reluctantly admitted this misclassification on the Deepwater Horizon, it successfully fought revealing whether this misclassification had occurred fleet wide for Transocean’s MODUs – DPV.

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – On April 20, 2011, one year after the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent oil spill, BP (British Petroleum) is suing Transocean Ltd, the owner of the oil rig involved in the disaster.

The top of the blowout preventer (BOP), made by Cameron International, breaking the surface as it was being recovered from the ocean floor.

In a separate lawsuit, BP is also suing Cameron International, the maker of the Blowout Preventer (BOP) that failed, citing that the device failed to stop the huge oil spill that followed the explosion. ... Read Full Story

NEW ORLEANS, LA – Relatives of oil rig workers who perished in the explosion and fire of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 are being flown over the site of the disaster one year later.

Transocean, Ltd, the company who owned the ill-fated oil rig has invited up to three members of each family to attend the flyover. A helicopter was used to transport them to the spot where the disaster occurred in the Gulf. It was expected that the helicopter would circle the site a few times. ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON DC – On Friday, April 1, Transocean announced to its shareholders that it paid executives multi-million dollar bonuses for the company’s safety record.

On April 4, 2011, upon hearing of the bonuses, Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar blasted the company for declaring the year 2010 to be “the best year in safety performance” in the company’s history. ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON, DC – In Washington, D.C. officials are conducting an investigation into the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

Transocean logo

Three workers for Transocean, Ltd., the company that owned The Deepwater Horizon, are refusing to testify at hearings which are part of a joint investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Coast Guard. ... Read Full Story

NEW ORLEANS, La. —  BP, Transocean and Haliburton are likely to face criminal charges after months of investigation by the Obama administration commission and other panels where they concluded that these companies were likely negligent in the Gulf oil spill disaster that took place April 20, 2010 on the Deepwater Horizon.

The offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, taking the lives of 11 men and unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S

David Uhlmann, former chief of environmental crimes at the Justice Department said “The evidence of negligence is too compelling and the harm is too great. The Justice Department is likely to believe that BP, Transocean and Halliburton were negligent and should be criminally charged. There’s no question about that.” ... Read Full Story