Deepwater Horizon thrusts students onto a sweltering offshore platform where hurried deadlines, frayed equipment, and ignored warnings converge into a historic catastrophe. Learners track how each missed safety test—cement-bond logs, pressure readings, kick indicators—stacked like dominoes until a single gas surge toppled them all. They weigh Mike Williams’s split-second decisions as models of ethical leadership under fire, debate Mr. Vidrine’s cost-benefit gambles, and connect the crew’s resili