Answers on the Oil Spill SWAT team

[FSogol]

From the Washington Post:

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT:
The department deployed SWAT teams from the Minerals Management Service to inspect 30 drilling rigs operating in the deepwater sections of the Gulf of Mexico. Inspections should be completed within the next week, according to an Interior Department spokeswoman.

Inspectors will check to see whether the rigs have conducted blow-out preventer tests and inspect related records, the spokeswoman said. The teams will also verify that emergency well control exercises are taking place. Inspectors will then inspect 47 deep-water production platforms in the gulf, a process that will take longer than rig inspections because of the complexities of the structures.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/04/oil_spill_the_governments_resp.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. For the life of me, I don't understand why the Police need to get involved in this ...

are they trying to make up something out of whole cloth?

This is too f**king weird.

Unbelievable. :(

[FSogol]

2. They are not police. Did you read what I posted?

The are inspectors for the Minerals Management Service under the jurisdiction of the Dept. of Interior. SWAT has more than one meaning.

[louis-t]

3. Again, SWAT is not police! This SWAT are oil rig inspectors.

[FSogol]

4. Maybe Obama should have sent CHiPs to the rigs?

:shrug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. Hmm...

[KayLaw]

5. I think you misread the post.

NT