I would like to call into question the presupposition that regulations have to be disaster driven.
One of the things that really struck me when I interviewed Alex Hickman about the cause of the Ocean Ranger disaster was that the Ranger had a sister rig called the Dyvi Delta and it was operating, I think, in Norway. They had realized that the ballast control room should not be in the leg of the rig. They had moved the ballast control room onto the deck.
Whenever people tell the story about the Ranger they start with the big storm and then they go into the portal, and they tell this kind of mechanical causal chain that starts with a design flaw on the rig. Somebody out there figured out that design flaw, so that the Norwegian operation responded to it without having to react to a disaster. Justice Hickman said that was one of the big questions he had hanging over him after the inquiry. He kept wanting to find out who knew, and who made that decision, but he couldn't find the answer to that.
One would hope that the advisory council this legislation brings about would be not only looking at best practices but taking a lead in terms of bringing people from jurisdictions around the world together to talk about how we can actually develop legislation and develop an industry commitment to invest in research and development around safety.