Deepwater Horizon survivor describes horrors of blast and escape from rig

Stephen Davis recounts how he was flung against a wall by explosion and kept at sea on work boat for 40 hours after rescue o Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the coast These things Stephen Davis cannot banish from his memory from that night of chaos aboard the Deepwater Horizon: the sensation of being flung into a wall by a powerful explosion, the desperate, muddy scramble on a deck lit only by the reflections from a huge pillar of flame; the look in men's eyes before they jumped 18 metres (60ft) into the water."You could taste the fumes, that godawful taste in your mouth," he said. "It was hard to breathe. The oxygen was being sucked out of the living quarters. Continue reading...