Fire on the Horizon
The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon

I finished reading Fire on the Horizon last night and in my attempt to sum up the events surrounding the sinking of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon I’ve chosen “complicated.” Don’t read that as my take on the book itself; no, this single word is aimed at undertaking the nearly impossible task of d......more

Two and a half stars rounded down to two. Points for the many detailed descriptions of the complex engineering that went into creating the Deepwater Horizon rig … but there wasn’t really any narrative to this book. The authors don’t develop the characters enough to give the reader an abiding interes......more

X-Posted @ Noladishu: [URL not allowed] ************ It's about 2 years since everyone was glued to their TV's watching ROV's try and plug a hole in the bottom of the sea. Since then, numerous books have been published chronicling the explosion and the spill. Here are just a few......more

Fire on the Horizon tells the story of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The story is a reasonably well-told account of what went wrong, leaning into the character-centric style of telling disaster stories. This, of course, helps to humanize the event... but I think it leads to s......more

This book had some very definite pros & cons. While the author was very obviously highly educated on the topic & had put in A TON of in-depth research, I found that some explanations of parts & how they worked were a bit long-winded, especially when it came to how important those detailed descriptio......more