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Not only did former BP chief executive Tony Hayward go sailing on his yacht at the height of the oil-spill crisis, but he’s also not sorry about it. In his first interview since stepping down as CEO of BP, Tony Hayward told the BBC that seeing his son for the first time in three months was just as important. "I have to confess, at the time was pretty angry actually,” he said of the fierce backlash from the White House and people in the Gulf of Mexico. “I hadn't seen my son for three months. I was on the boat for six hours ... I'm not certain I'd do anything different.” Hayward, who became notorious for a string of gaffes, stopped handling the spill when he was called back to Britain by BP’s chairman. And it was then that he jumped on his boat to regatta near the Isle of Wight with his son.

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Saturday: The yacht Bob, owned by BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, seen during the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, near Cowes, Isle of Wight. (AP)

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EMPIRE, La. -- BP chief executive Tony Hayward took a day off Saturday to see his 52-foot yacht "Bob" compete in a glitzy race off England's shore, a leisure trip that further infuriated residents of the oil-stained Gulf Coast.

While Hayward's pricey ship whipped around the Isle of Wight on a good day for sailing -- breezy and about 68 degrees -- anger simmered on the steamy Gulf Coast, where crude has been washing in from the still-gushing spill.

"Man, that ain't right. None of us can even go out fishing, and he's at the yacht races," said Bobby Pitre, 33, who runs a tattoo shop in the crossroads town of Larose, La. "I wish we could get a day off from the oil, too."

BP spokespeople rushed to defend Hayward, who has drawn withering criticism as the public face of BP PLC's halting efforts to stop the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Company spokesman Robert Wine said the break is the first for Hayward since the Deepwater Horizon rig BP was leasing exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the undersea gusher.

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"He's spending a few hours with his family at a weekend. I'm sure that everyone would understand that," Wine said.

He noted Hayward is a well known as a fan of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, one of the world's largest, which attracts more than 1,700 boats and 16,000 sailors as famous yachtsmen compete with wealthy amateurs in a 50-nautical mile course around the island at England's southern tip.

"Bob" finished fourth in its group. It was not clear whether Hayward actually took part in Saturday's race or attended as a spectator.

The boat, made 10 years ago by the Annapolis, Md.-based boatbuilder Farr Yacht Design, lists for nearly $700,000.

Hayward had already angered many in the U.S. when he was quoted in the Times of London as suggesting that Americans were particularly likely to file bogus claims for compensation from the spill. He later shocked Louisiana residents by telling them that no one wanted to resolve the crisis as badly as he did because "I'd like my life back."

Ronnie Kennier, a 49-year-old oysterman from Empire, La., said Hayward's day among the sailboats showed once again just how out of touch BP executives are with the financial and emotional suffering along the Gulf.

"He wanted to get his life back," Kennier said. "I guess he got it."

In Washington, President Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel made the same observation Saturday on ABC's "This Week."

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden enjoyed a round of golf Saturday near Washington, something they've done on other weekends since the spill and a fact that wasn't lost on users of social networking sites. Twitter feeds compared Obama and Biden's golfing to Hayward's yachting, lumping them together as diversions of privileged people who should be paying more attention to the oil gushing into the Gulf.

"Our government, the executives at BP, it looks like they decide to worry about it later," said Capt. Dwayne Price, a charter fisherman in Grand Isle, La., who now spends his days shuttling media out to the oiled waters. "Things need to happen now. The longer this is strung out, the worse it's going to be."

Messages seeking comment were left for officials at the White House , who have struggled to counter criticism at home of how the administration has handled the disaster. An Associated Press-GfK poll released Tuesday showed 52 percent now disapprove of Obama's handling of the oil spill, up significantly from last month.

BP, Britain's largest company before the oil rig exploded, has lost about 45 percent of its value since the explosion -- a drop that has alarmed millions of British retirees whose pension funds hold BP stock. Just this week, the company announced that it was canceling its quarterly dividend.

The British press, much more sympathetic than the American media to BP's plight, has expressed disbelief at the company's strategy.

"It is hard to recall a more catastrophically mishandled public relations response to a crisis than the one we are witnessing," the Daily Telegraph's Jeremy Warner wrote Friday.

About 50 miles off the coast, a newly expanded containment system is capturing or incinerating more than 1 million gallons of oil daily, the first time it has approached its peak capacity, according to the Coast Guard. BP hopes that by late June it will be able to keep nearly 90 percent of the flow from the broken pipe from hitting the ocean.

More than 120 million gallons have leaked from the well, according to the most pessimistic federal daily flow rate estimates. Oil has been washing up from Louisiana to Florida, killing birds and fish, coating delicate marshes and wetlands and covering pristine beaches with tar balls.

A pair of relief wells considered the best chance at a permanent fix won't be done until August.

BP has put many idled commercial fishermen to work on the cleanup. But not everyone.

Sai Stiffler spent Saturday doing some repairs on his shrimp boat at Delta Marina in Empire, La., after a passing shower made things stiflingly hot and muggy. He signed up for BP's "vessel of opportunity" program but hasn't been hired, and he was not pleased that Obama was playing golf and BP's CEO was at a yacht race while his life is on hold.

"Right now is no time for that," Stiffler said. "I don't think they know how bad people are hurting. They make a lot of promises but that's it."

Raymond Canevari, 59, of Pensacola, said he was insulted by the fact that Hayward would take in a yacht race while the oil still flows.

"I think everyone has the right to do what they want in their free time, but he doesn't have the right to have free time at all," said Canevari, who scouts the bayous, bays and Gulf for driftwood and other found objects, and turns the debris into nature-themed art. "Not until this crisis is resolved."

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Tony Hayward, BP's CEO, has done it again.

He has managed to outrage many Americans with yet another action that appears to be the height of callousness. He was in Britain's Isle of Wight Saturday taking in a yacht race.

Hayward, a geologist by training, is regarded by many as about as sensitive as the rocks he knows so well because of a series of gaffes. One of the best-known was his statement in a TV interview that he wanted "his life back."

For Americans, Hayward has quickly become the greatest British object of scorn since King George III, and a great unifier, with Americans reviling him from tattoo parlors on the Gulf Coast all the way to the White House.

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BP spokesman Robert Wine said it's the first break Hayward has had since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the undersea gusher. "He's spending a few hours with his family at a weekend," Wine said Saturday. "I'm sure that everyone would understand that." Not Mike Strohmeyer, who owns the Lighthouse Lodge in Venice, on Louisiana's southern tip, who said Hayward was "just numb." "I don't think he has any feelings," he said. "If I was in his position, I think I'd be in a more responsible place. I think he should be with someone out trying to plug the leak." And not Raymond Canevari, 59, of Pensacola, Fla., an artist who said he was insulted by Hayward's attendance at the race. "I think everyone has the right do what they want in their free time, but he doesn't have the right to have free time at all," said Canevari. "Not until this crisis is resolved..." President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, called Hayward's decision to attend the yacht race a public relations fiasco and told ABC's "This Week," that Hayward had "got his life back." "I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting," he said in an interview taped Saturday.

Many CEOs see themselves, and are viewed by others, as their companies' public face. They therefore take care to manage the optics of the situations they find themselves in, especially when they and their companies are under harsh public scrutiny.

They know that the financial well-being of their companies are in part based on the intangible known as goodwill in all its forms.

Which makes Hayward's actions all the more curious. Hayward is making it easier for his company's critics to further demonize BP and drive down its goodwill.

Clearly, many observers see his approach to BP's image as reckless and cavalier.

At a time when the same words are being used to describe the company's handling of the disastrous Deepwater Horizon project, Hayward's course is probably not one crisis managers would recommend.

Indeed, his approach will probably be used as a case study by crisis managers for decades of what not to do.

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Images of the beleaguered BP chief executive, Tony Hayward , attending a yacht race on the Isle of Wight, just 48 hours after a hostile interrogation by a US congressional committee on the Gulf Coast oil spill, have provoked sharp criticism on both sides of the Atlantic.

President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, condemned Hayward's attendance at the event as "part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes" on ABC television, adding: "I think that we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting".

A YouGov poll on the special relationship between Britain and the US, carried out in both countries, showed most believe criticism by Obama, including his careful dubbing of the company British Petroleum rather than BP, is doing damage.

In Britain, 64% of respondents, and 47% in the US, believed the president's handling of the crisis was harming relations and 22% in both Britain and the US thought Obama was anti-British.

In Britain, only 54% said they now viewed the US favourably, compared with 68% before the spill – dramatically fewer than the 77% of Americans who felt favourably towards Britain.

On both sides of the Atlantic, almost identical numbers blamed BP for the spill, 59% in Britain and 58% in the US, but in the US, 57% believed BP had cut corners to save costs, compared with 26% in Britain.

The images of Hayward at the Isle of Wight race yesterday, 4,500 miles away from the oil still spewing into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, show a man looking anything but happy and relaxed, collar up against a cold breeze, his face almost hidden by a baseball cap pulled down over dark glasses.

He was snapped at the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island race, where the 52ft yacht Bob, which he co-owns, finished fourth in its class.

Emanuel said the images were clearly another in a long line of public embarrassments – he mocked Haywood's most infamous comment, saying "he's got his life back, as he would say" – but added there was more of substance to worry about.

"Beyond that photo, there's really a substance here that matters. That's clearly a PR mistake, but he's made a number of those mistakes. What's important is: are we capping the well? Are we capturing the oil? Are we containing the clean-up? Are we filing the claims? Are we also cleaning up the mess? That's what's important."

On the Isle of Wight, the local Friends of the Earth co-ordinator said Hayward deserved all the criticism. "I'm sure that this will be seen as yet another public relations disaster for him from people who have got exceedingly upset about this whole thing.

"Personally I don't think that the bloke is particularly competent from the results that he has delivered. He obviously doesn't have the technical know-how but he should at least be managing the image of the company better."

Charlie Kronick, of Greenpeace, said Hayward was "rubbing salt into the wounds" of people affected by the crisis. "The whole process has been a disaster but what is far worse is that BP's recklessness caused the accident in the first place. What has happened in the Gulf of Mexico is as a result of Hayward's own agenda to go for the marginal, unconventional barrels of oil.

"Clearly it is incredibly insulting for him to be sailing in the Isle of Wight but the fact is that him being there hasn't stopped the leak."

A spokeswoman for BP said Hayward was spending some time with his teenage son, but was still "very much in charge", despite earlier reports that he had been dropped from overall control of handling the crisis.

She added: "We wouldn't dream of commenting on what the chief executive does in his rare moments of private time."

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A yachting trip? The 10 worst BP gaffes in Gulf oil spill.

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward attended a yachting race in England yesterday. It was just the latest BP public relations gaffe in the Gulf oil spill. Here are 10 of the worst.

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June 20, 2010

The decision by BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward to spend a day with his family in England Saturday was perhaps defensible. Two months into the Gulf oil spill, some Americans might grudgingly admit that even a man charged with solving the worst environmental crisis in US history needed a day here or there to recharge the batteries.

The fact he spent that day yachting with his son in an exclusive race off the English coast was perhaps the starkest evidence yet of the BP chief’s deep misunderstanding of American public opinion – or his dismissal of it.

It is possible that, in the eyes of Americans, BP can't do anything right until it plugs the hole gushing tens of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico .

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Yet since the Deepwater Horizon blowout April 20, BP has hardly helped itself. Mr. Hayward’s day of yachting off the Isle of Wight – mere days after he appeared at once elusive and disinterested at congressional hearings – is the latest in a series of major public relations mistakes that have at times cast BP as bumbling, ill-informed, and callous.

1. Who’s in charge?

On Friday, BP board Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg presented the news that many Americans had long been waiting for. Hayward was being shunted out of his lead role in the Gulf oil spill crisis, to be replaced by BP Managing Director Bob Dudley . On Saturday, BP media relations personnel said the chairman of the board was wrong. They said Mr. Svanberg was suggesting that BP was merely beginning a long-planned and gradual transition of authority to Mr. Dudley “over a period of time.”

2. The ‘small people’

It was not the first time Svanberg misspoke. After meeting with President Obama , Svanberg said he shared Mr. Obama’s compassion for the “ small people ” in the Gulf. Needless to say, the comment did not go over well. Spoken by a man who owns a yacht in Thailand , the phrase “small people” smelled of rank class condescension. Swedes, however, note that the word “småfolket” in Svanberg’s native Swedish has a positive connotation with undertones of egalitarianism.

3. ‘I want my life back’

Six weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Hayward uttered these words: “We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do. I'd like my life back.” To those shrimpers and fishermen who have essentially lost an entire year’s wages – not to mention the families of the 11 men killed in the blowout – this seemed an inordinately insensitive comment.

Moreover, it has now become the prism for Hayward’s yachting excursion. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday: “Well, to quote Tony Hayward, he’s got his life back, as he would say. And I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting.”

4. ‘Very, very modest’ impact

On May 18 – a month after the blowout – Hayward told the BBC : "I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest." Four days earlier, he told the British newspaper, the Guardian: "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."

The first has proven to be wildly off base. The second, while containing a kernel of scientific truth, disregards the fact that oil and dispersants could be toxic to certain animals critical to the food chain even in trace amounts. Moreover, the oil has proven concentrated enough to foul the wetlands and beaches of the Gulf Coast .

5. ‘A trickle’

On June 8, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said that the spill "should be down to a relative trickle by Monday or Tuesday." According to the best scientific estimates , between 10,000 and 35,000 barrels of oil (420,000 to 1.5 million gallons) are still leaking into the Gulf daily.

6. 5,000 barrels a day.

Part of the reason for the continued leak is that BP low-balled the flow rate from the well and then refused to try to amend it. For a short time after the blowout, BP estimated that the well beneath the Deepwater Horizon was spewing 1,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf. That was swiftly changed to 5,000 barrels daily. Last week, scientists suggested that the real number could be as much as 60,000 barrels a day – and no less than 35,000.

In the early days, when 5,000 barrels was the working estimate, BP said: “We’re not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It’s not relevant to the response effort, and it might even detract from the response effort,” a BP spokesman told The New York Times .

As a result of that decision, BP didn’t put enough oil-collecting capacity on the surface. It is now rushing to bring in more to collect the excess 10,000 to 35,000 barrels a day of leaking oil.

7. ‘Top kill’: 70 percent chance

The underestimation of the flow rate mirrors the repeated overestimation by BP of its own capabilities. Hayward said that the failed “ top kill ” procedure, which would have stopped the oil, had a 60 to 70 percent chance of working. It failed.

8. ‘We have turned the corner.’

Earlier, on May 17, BP stuck a siphon into the ruined riser pipe – collecting 1,000 barrels a day – leading Hayward to say: "I do feel that we have, for the first time, turned the corner in this challenge." That siphoning effort was later abandoned.

9. What spill?

When BP share prices recently plummeted, BP intended to convey the idea that it could handle the costs of the Gulf oil spill. Its statement, however, was obtuse to the point of absurdity: “The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement.”

10. Waste of money?

Six weeks after the spill began, BP started a $50 million TV ad campaign, promising to restore the Gulf. Obama said the money would have been better spent on relief efforts and damage claims.

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BP CEO Tony Hayward Goes Yachting While Its Partner Prepares to Sue Over Oil Spill

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Updated on: June 21, 2010 / 5:41 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

This latest development puts a rather large crimp in BP's plans to pay for clean up costs and damages from the gushing well, which has dumped as many as 120 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, so far. Although neither Anadarko's threat nor the oil spill response were enough to keep BP CEO Tony Hayward from attending a yacht race Saturday around England's Isle of Wight. And thank God Hayward didn't stay in the Gulf: His 52-foot yacht, "Bob," finished fourth in its class in the world renowned annual 50-nautical-mile race.

Here's what Hackett had to say in Anadarko's Friday release.

The mounting evidence clearly demonstrates that this tragedy was preventable and the direct result of BP's reckless decisions and actions. Frankly, we are shocked by the publicly available information that has been disclosed in recent investigations and during this week's testimony that, among other things, indicates BP operated unsafely and failed to monitor and react to several critical warning signs during the drilling of the Macondo well. BP's behavior and actions likely represent gross negligence of will misconduct and thus affect the obligations of the parties under the operating agreement.
The JOA (joint operating agreement) also provides that BP is responsible to its co-owners for damages caused by its gross negligence or willful misconduct.

For Anadarko, this essentially means it will sue now to force BP to take on 100 percent of the liability, or sue later to seek repayment from BP. BP released a statement that strongly disagrees with Anadarko's allegations and stops just short of saying "we'll take you to court if we have to."

The stakes are high for Anadarko, which would struggle to absorb its share of the costs associated with the spill. Anadarko had revenues of $9 billion last year. BP had $239 billion in revenue . Or looked at another way: Anadarko generated $3.93 billion in cash flow from its operations last year. BP? Try nearly seven times as much, with $27 billion in cash flow from its operations.

Moody's recent decision to cut Anadarko's credit rating to junk status will make paying for the oil spill even more painful -- and expensive. Anadarko will have to borrow funds or sell off some of its non-core assets, something BP already plans to do, to pay for the spill. Anadarko's borrowing costs will be higher now that its credit rating has been cut. In the end, Anadarko may have to delay some of its more promising deepwater prospects, including its latest project offshore Sierra Leone. Photo from Deepwater Horizon Response Joint Command For complete coverage, see: All Things BNET on BP's Gulf of Mexico Spill Related:

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BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, spent the day off the coast of England watching his yacht compete in one of the world’s largest races.

Two days after Mr. Hayward angered lawmakers on Capitol Hill with his refusal to provide details during testimony about the worst offshore oil spill in United States history, and one day after BP’s chairman said the chief executive would not be as involved in daily operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Mr. Hayward sparked new controversy from afar.

“He is having some rare private time with his son,” a BP spokeswoman, Sheila Williams, said in a telephone interview on Saturday.

But Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, who taped an interview for ABC’s “This Week,” called Mr. Hayward’s attendance at the race “part of a long line of P.R. gaffes and mistakes” that he has made.

“To quote Tony Hayward, he’s got his life back,” Mr. Emanuel said.

On May 31, six weeks after the spill began, Mr. Hayward uttered “I’d like my life back,” a comment that struck many in the gulf region as insensitive, and for which he eventually apologized.

On Saturday, Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, called Mr. Hayward’s yacht outing the “height of arrogance,” in an interview with Fox News.

“I can tell you that yacht ought to be here skimming and cleaning up a lot of the oil,” Mr. Shelby said. “He ought to be down here seeing what is really going on. Not in a cocoon somewhere.”

But Mr. Hayward’s role in the gulf became the topic of further speculation on Saturday, even as Ms. Williams, the BP spokeswoman, insisted that Mr. Hayward was still in charge of the company and the enormous cleanup operations.

“Tony receives regular updates from the gulf,” she said in an e-mail message.

On Friday, the chairman of the board of BP, Carl-Henric Svanberg, told the British TV network Sky News that Mr. Hayward would be “now handing over” the daily operations in the gulf to Robert Dudley, an American who joined BP as part of its acquisition of Amoco a decade ago.

On Saturday, BP tried to clarify what Mr. Svanberg had said about the transition of leadership in the gulf. “What he meant by ‘now,’ ” Ms. Williams said, was that “there would be a transition over to Bob over a period of time.”

“Obviously, Tony’s main priority remains overseeing all BP operations,” she said. “Over all, there will be some responsibilities handed over, but Tony will remain in full control until we have stopped the leak.”

When that might happen is not clear. Crude oil is flowing at a rate estimated between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels of oil a day from the damaged well, and BP has been able to capture only a percentage of that with its current containment methods.

BP said it was aiming to stop the leak in August, when two relief wells it is drilling will intersect with the damaged one. The company said on Friday that it was ahead of schedule on one of the wells and within 200 feet of the side of the damaged well, but that the drilling would proceed more slowly the closer it got.

Workers had captured 24,500 barrels of oil on Friday before shutting down the operation because of a malfunction on the vessel that is siphoning the oil from the leaking well — 1,000 fewer barrels than on Thursday. Operations restarted early Saturday.

By then, Mr. Hayward was already in Cowes on the southern coast of England for the J. P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, a yacht race around the Isle of Wight. A spokeswoman for the race said in an e-mail message “that a gentleman by the name of Tony Hayward is a co-owner of an entered boat called ‘Bob’ that was racing today, however his name did not appear on any crew list.”

The boat finished fourth in a class of 45 others.

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BP officials scrambled Saturday to respond to another public-relations mess when their chief executive, Tony Hayward, spent the day off the coast of England watching his yacht compete in one of the world’s largest races.

Two days after Hayward angered lawmakers on Capitol Hill with his refusal to provide details during testimony about the worst offshore oil spill in U.S history, and one day after BP’s chairman said the chief executive would not be as involved in daily operations in the Gulf, Hayward sparked new controversy from afar.

“He is having some rare private time with his son,” a BP spokeswoman, Sheila Williams, said in a telephone interview Saturday.

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, who taped an interview for ABC’s “This Week,” called Hayward’s attendance at the race “part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes” that he has made. “To quote Tony Hayward, he’s got his life back,” Emanuel said.

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Hayward watched his 52-foot yacht, “Bob,” whip around the Isle of Wight as anger simmered back on the steamy Gulf Coast, where crude has been washing in from the still-gushing spill.

“Man, that ain’t right. None of us can even go out fishing, and he’s at the yacht races,” said Bobby Pitre, 33, who runs a tattoo shop in the crossroads town of Larose, La. “I wish we could get a day off from the oil, too.”

BP spokesman Robert Wine said the break was the first for Hayward since the Deepwater Horizon rig BP was leasing exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the undersea gusher.

He noted Hayward is a well-known as a fan of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, one of the world’s largest, which attracts more than 1,700 boats and 16,000 sailors as famous yachtsmen compete with wealthy amateurs in a 50-nautical mile course around the island at England’s southern tip. “Bob” finished fourth in its group of 45 vessels.

The boat, made 10 years ago by the Annapolis, Md.-based boatbuilder Farr Yacht Design, lists for nearly $700,000.

Hayward had already angered many in the U.S. when he was quoted in the Times of London as suggesting Americans were particularly likely to file bogus claims for compensation from the spill. He later told Louisiana residents May 31 that no one wanted to resolve the crisis as much as he did because “I’d like my life back.”

The comment struck many as insensitive, and he eventually apologized for it.

Hayward’s role in the Gulf became the topic of further speculation Saturday, even as Williams, the BP spokeswoman, insisted Hayward was still in charge of the company and the Gulf cleanup operations.

“Tony receives regular updates from the Gulf,” she said in an e-mail.

BP’s chairman of the board, Carl-Henric Svanberg, told the British television network Sky News on Friday that Hayward would be “now handing over” the daily operations in the Gulf to Robert Dudley, an American who joined BP as part of its acquisition of Amoco a decade ago.

BP tried Saturday to clarify what Svanberg had said about the transition of leadership in the Gulf. “What he meant by ‘now,’ ” Williams said, is that “there would be a transition over to Bob over a period of time.”

Williams said that Hayward announced the change in a June 4 meeting to shareholders, but that he was still in overall control of the company.

Material from The Associated Press is included in this report.

Gulf Oil Spill: Tony Hayward Attends Glitzy Yacht Race As Oil Spews Into Gulf

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RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press

LONDON — In what one environmentalist described as "yet another public relations disaster" for embattled energy giant BP, CEO Tony Hayward took time off Saturday to attend a glitzy yacht race around England's Isle of Wight.

As social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook lit up with outrage, BP spokespeople rushed to defend Hayward, who has drawn withering criticism as the public face of BP's halting efforts to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Spokeswoman Sheila Williams said Hayward took a break from overseeing BP efforts to stem the undersea gusher in Gulf of Mexico so he could watch his boat "Bob" participate in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. The 52-foot yacht is made by the Annapolis, Maryland-based boatbuilder Farr Yacht Design.

The annual one-day race is one of the world's largest, attracting more than 1,700 boats and 16,000 sailors as world-renown yachtsmen compete with wealthy amateurs in the 50-nautical mile course around the island.

Robert Wine, a BP spokesman at the company's Houston headquarters, said it was the first break that Hayward has had since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the undersea oil gusher.

"He's spending a few hours with his family at a weekend. I'm sure that everyone would understand that," Wine said Saturday. "He will be back to deal with the response. It doesn't detract from that at all."

Wine described the race as "one of the biggest sailing events in the world and he's well known to have a keen interest in it."

He said Hayward will be returning to the United States, though it's unclear when.

Still, hobnobbing with millionaires and their yachts is likely to be a hard sell in the Gulf, which is struggling to deal with up to 120 million gallons of oil that have escaped from the blown-out well. Oil has been washing up along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida, killing birds and fish, coating delicate marshes and wetlands and covering pristine beaches with tar balls.

Hayward already angered many in the U.S. when he was quoted in the Times of London as suggesting that Americans were particularly likely to file bogus claims. He later shocked residents in Louisiana by telling them that no one wanted to resolve the crisis as badly as he did because "I'd like my life back."

A pair of relief wells that won't be done until August is the best bet to stop the massive spill. By late June, the oil giant hopes it can keep nearly 90 percent of the flow from the broken pipe from hitting the ocean.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says a newly expanded containment system is capturing or incinerating more than 1 million gallons (3.8 million liters) of oil daily, the first time it has approached its peak capacity.

Just minutes after reports about Hayward emerged Saturday, the issue became a hot topic on social networking sites, with people on Twitter passing along the news and reacting to it every few seconds. Some comments called the move "mindboggling" while others noted he had gotten his life back – while Gulf residents had not.

British environmental groups immediately slammed Hayward's outing. Charlie Kronick of Greenpeace said Hayward was "rubbing salt into the wounds" of Gulf residents whose livelihoods have been wrecked by the disaster.

"Clearly it is incredibly insulting for him to be sailing in the Isle of Wight," he said.

Hugh Walding of Friends of the Earth said Hayward's choice of venue was sure to arouse anger.

"I'm sure that this will be seen as yet another public relations disaster," Walding said.

On Thursday, Hayward told lawmakers on a U.S. House investigations panel that he was out of the loop on decisions surrounding the blown well. Both Democrats and Republicans were infuriated when he asserted, "I'm not stonewalling."

The next day, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg seemed to suggest that Hayward was being withdrawn from the front line of the oil spill response, although his comments were later qualified.

"It is clear that Tony has made remarks that have upset people," Svanberg told Sky News television, adding that Hayward was "now handing over" daily operations to BP Managing Director Bob Dudley.

Williams said Svanberg was misunderstood and that only a transition to Dudley, an American with 30 years in the oil business, had begun.

"Hayward is very much in charge until we've stopped the leak," she told the AP on Saturday.

Wine said "there's not a hard and fast date" on when Dudley will be completely in charge.

It was not clear whether Hayward actually took part in Saturday's race or attended as a spectator. Williams said Hayward was there with his son. A British news agency took a picture of what it thought was Hayward on the yacht that he owns with other investors, but BP would not confirm that it was Hayward.

Peta Stuart-Hunt, a press officer for the event, said Hayward "wasn't listed on any of the crew list."

"If he is on the boat, he's in contravention of the rules," she said.

Hayward's boat finished fourth in its class. This year's attendees at Isle of Wight race included British Olympic gold medal sailor Ben Ainslie.

Associated Press Writers Ramit Plushnick-Masti and Ray Henry contributed to this report from New Orleans.

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AP: LONDON – BP chief executive Tony Hayward, often criticized for being tone-deaf to U.S. concerns about the worst oil spill in history, took time off Saturday to attend a glitzy yacht race off England's Isle of Wight.

Spokeswoman Sheila Williams said Hayward took a break from overseeing BP efforts to stem the undersea gusher in Gulf of Mexico to watch his boat "Bob" participate in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.

The one-day yacht race is one of the world's largest, attracting hundreds of boats and thousands of sailors.

In a statement, BP described Hayward's break as "a rare moment of private time" and said that "no matter where he is, he is always in touch with what is happening within BP" and can direct recovery operations if required.

That is likely to be a hard sell in the slick-hit Gulf states struggling to deal with the up to 120 million gallons of oil that have escaped since April 20 from a blown-out undersea well operated by Hayward's company.

It was not clear whether Hayward actually took part in the race or attended as a spectator. Williams refused to comment beyond saying that the embattled chief executive was there with his son.

Peta Stuart-Hunt, a press officer for the event, said Hayward "wasn't listed on any of the crew list."

"If he is on the boat, he's in contravention of the rules," she said.

Whatever the case, Hayward's appearance at the race is likely to draw outrage in the United States, where he has already been criticized for failing to answer questions from U.S. lawmakers.

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The balashikha ripper, the hippopotamus,   active for 6 years (1988-1993) in russia, confirmed victims, possible victims.

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Sergei Ryakhovsky (Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky) a Soviet-Russian serial killer known as the Balashikha Ripper and The Hippopotamus. Ryakhovsky was convicted for the killing of nineteen people in the Moscow area between 1988 and 1993. Ryakhovsky's mainly stabbed or strangulated his victims, he mutilated some bodies, mainly in the genital area. Allegedly Ryakhovsky carried out necrophilic acts on his victims and stole their belongings. Ryakhovsky standing 6’5" tall and weighting 286 pounds, gaining him the nickname, The Hippo. Sergei Ryakhovsky died on January 21st 2005 from untreated tuberculosis while serving his life sentence in prison.

Sergei Ryakhovsky Serial Killer Profile

Serial Killer Sergei Ryakhovsky (aka) the Balashikha Ripper, The Hippopotamus, was active for 6 years between 1988-1993 , known to have ( 19 confirmed / 19 possible ) victims. This serial killer was active in the following countries: Russia

Sergei Ryakhovsky was born on December 29th 1962 in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union. He had a physically defect. During his education he had academic, social or discipline problems including being teased or picked on.

Sergei Ryakhovsky a necrophile male citizen of Russia.

Prior to his spree he had killed, commited crimes, and served time in jail.

In 1988 (Age 25/26) Sergei Ryakhovsky started his killing spree, during his crimes as a serial killer he was known to rob, commit acts of necrophilia , torture , strangle , rape , mutilate, and murder his victims.

He was arrested on April 13th 1993 (Age 30), sentenced to death by firing squad at a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia. He was convicted on charges of murder and other possible charges during his lifetime.

Sergei Ryakhovsky died on January 21st 2005 (Age 42), cause of death: natural causes, untreated tuberculosis at a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia.

Profile Completeness: 62%

Sergei Ryakhovsky has been listed on Killer.Cloud since November of 2016 and was last updated 5 years ago.

Sergei Ryakhovsky a known:

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The unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events. Serial Killer as defined by the FBI at the 2005 symposium.

( 308 killers ) RAPIST

Rape is usually defined as having sexual intercourse with a person who does not want to, or cannot consent.

( 60 killers ) NECROPHILIAC

Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia, is a sexual attraction or sexual act involving corpses. Serial Killer Necrophiliacs have been known to have sex with the body of their victim(s).

( 89 killers ) TORTURER

Torture is when someone puts another person in pain. This pain may be physical or psychological. Tourturers touture their victims.

( 251 killers ) STRANGLER

Strangulation is death by compressing the neck until the supply of oxygen is cut off. Stranglers kill by Strangulation.

Sergei Ryakhovsky Serial Killer Profile:

Updated: 2019-06-30 collected by killer.cloud.

General Information
Name: Sergei Ryakhovsky
Nickname: the Balashikha Ripper, The Hippopotamus
Victims: 19 - 19
Years Active: -
Ages Active: 25/26 - 30/31
Active Countries:
Convicted Of: murder
Life Span: -
Characteristics
Gender: Male
Citizenship: Russia
Sexual Preference: necrophile
Astrological Sign:
Birth Month:
Marital Status: N/A
Children: N/A
Living With: N/A
Occupation: criminal, serial killer
Childhood Information
: Dec 29, 1962
Given Name: Sergey
Birth Location: Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
Birth Order: N/A
Siblings: N/A
Raised By: N/A
Birth Category: N/A
Mother: N/A
Father: N/A
Cognitive Ability
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Highest School: N/A
Highest Degree:
Incarceration
Arrested: Apr 13, 1993 (Age 30)
Convicted: N/A
Sentence: death by firing squad
Prison Location: a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia
Executed: N/A
Previous Crimes: TRUE
Previous Jail: TRUE
Previous Prison: N/A
Death Information
Death Date: Jan 21, 2005 (Age 42)
Manner of Death: natural causes
Cause of Death: untreated tuberculosis
Death Location: a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia
Killed In Prison: FALSE
Suicide: FALSE

8 Timeline Events of Serial Killer Sergei Ryakhovsky

The 8 dates listed below represent a timeline of the life and crimes of serial killer Sergei Ryakhovsky. A complete collection of serial killer events can be found on our Serial Killer Timeline .

Date Event Description
Sergei Ryakhovsky was born in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union.  

(Age 20)
20th Birthday

(Age 25/26)
Sergei Ryakhovsky started his serial killing spree. 

(Age 30)
30th Birthday

(Age 30/31)
Sergei Ryakhovsky ended his serial killing spree. 

(Age 30)
Sergei Ryakhovsky arrested. 

(Age 40)
40th Birthday

(Age 42)
Sergei Ryakhovskydied.cause of death:natural causes,untreated tuberculosisat a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia.

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teased in school 218 60 158
physically defect 300 20 280
previous crimes 367 298 69
previous jail 352 241 111
previous killed 208 63 145
used weapon 453 318 135
rape 453 308 145
torture 426 89 337
strangle 443 251 192
sex with body 430 60 370
mutilated 447 163 284
robbed 418 175 243
suicide 225 38 187
killed in prison 218 12 206
used gun 451 140 311
bound 406 139 267

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External References

  • Sergei Ryakhovsky on en.wikipedia.org , Retrieved on Sep 18, 2018 .
  • Juan Ignacio Blanco , Sergei Vasilyevich RYAKHOVSKY on murderpedia.org , Retrieved on Sep 18, 2018 .
  • Q372816 on www.wikidata.org , Retrieved on Oct 9, 2018 .

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    Russian air defense units allegedly intercepted a drone over the city of Elektrostal in Moscow Oblast, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported in a Telegram post on Nov. 19.

  18. The flag of Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, Russia which I bought there

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  19. Elektrostal

    In 1938, it was granted town status. [citation needed]Administrative and municipal status. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Elektrostal City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, Elektrostal City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Elektrostal Urban Okrug.

  20. Hayward triggers a fresh firestorm

    Tony Hayward was photographed attending a yacht race off the southern coast of England.

  21. Sergei Ryakhovsky

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