It seems a huge risk to avoid hearing an alarm. Could it be sabotage or terrorism? Someone paid to make the platform blow up?Disabling your primary shutdown? Not allowed, and could result in jail time. Simply to not be bothered by an alarm.
I watched the BP drama unfold on TV and it seemed that there was an extraordinary amount of "bad luck" happening to that BP platform, but for things that easily could have been fixed to fail at the wrong time. Whatever the cause, BP has been unfairly accused, berated, fined, and punished as if they deliberately set out to pollute the ocean. What a crock of bull. I wonder who pocketed all that BP fine money? It certainly did nothing for the national debt.