Posted on 05/19/2010 9:32:49 AM PDT by Faketan
We have learned from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sources that U.S. Navy submarines deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast have detected what amounts to a frozen oil blob from the oil geyser at the destroyed Deep Horizon off-shore oil rig south of Louisiana. The Navy submarines have trained video cameras on the moving blob, which remains frozen at depths of between 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Because the oil blob is heavier than water, it remains frozen at current depths.
FEMA and Corps of Engineers employees are upset that the White House and the Pentagon remain tight-lipped and in cover-up mode about the images of the massive and fast-moving frozen coagulated oil blob that is being imaged by Navy submarines that are tracking its movement. The sources point out that BP and the White House conspired to withhold videos from BP-contracted submersibles that showed the oil geyser that was spewing oil from the chasm underneath the datum of the Deep Horizon at rates far exceeding originally reported amounts. We have learned that it was largely WMR's scoop on the existence of the BP videos that forced the company and its White House patrons to finally agree to the release of the video footage.
Full article at: White House Cover Up
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
It creeps it leaps
It glides and slides across the floor
And through the door
And all along the wall a splotch of glotch
Be careful of the Blob
Tow it to the north pole problem solved
Thank god it is frozen. The Blob was put in deep freeze in the 50’s by Steve McQeen. If it thaws we are don for. DO NOT HIDE IN A DINER.
Another reason to fear global warming.
Horrors. This is like a grade B sci-fi. Now if it actually comes to life and attacks the sub....
Stumbled across a University Professor, an expert on the Gulf Oil Spill, but he can’t help because he has strong views about the homosexual agenda... here is the link.
http://www.bnd.com/2010/05/19/1261562/local-professor-dumped-by-white.html
stick a big, long, warmed straw into it and slurp it up. How much is SpillZilla worth anyway? Sounds like a job for Salvage/1.
Get a big net and reel it up before it thaws
wow
I’ve just emailed that article to a lot of folks!
Don’t know how many of you saw 60 Minutes Sunday night, but in an interview with one of the survivors (a fella who was in charge of the electrical systems on the DWH, I believe), he said the VERY SAME thing as this excerpt from the article you posted.
“..There is also evidence that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean sank a drill to a depth of 35,000 feet at the Deep Horizon site some six months ago without the required permits from the federal government. WMR has learned from U.S. government sources that the drilling at 35,000 feet caused a major catastrophic event that required the firms’ oil rig personnel to quickly pull up the drill and close the drill hole...”
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
The Navy submarines have trained video cameras on the moving blob, which remains frozen at depths of between 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Because the oil blob is heavier than water, it remains frozen at current depths.
I’ve also read that BP “won’t allow” any scientists and personnel from any of the universities or other private companies to send submersibles down to get a closer look at the leak, measure the flow, test the waters, etc.
How can BP CONTROL the area? They don’t own it!
Why isn’t the govt. WELCOMING scientists who want to go do this and arranging for it to happen?
Lastly, I’m damned tired of hearing (already) that the tar balls and dead wildlife are NOT from this oil spill!
That is TOTAL BULLSH!+
That is just like the immediate declaration after every plane crash or bombing that “We don’t know ANY DETAILS YET, BUT this was not a terrorist attack!
There has to be a way to recover that oil.
Wrap it in some form of containment(picture huge plastic shopping bag) then raise it with buoys or balloons. As it rises it will start to melt and still be contained in the huge baggie and they would be able to pump the oil out of the baggie onto tanker ships.
They should try to at least.
I do’t quite understand the report that “oil is heavier than water.” Normally crude oil ranges from around 0.8 (80% of water) to myabe .93 for heavy crude.
As crude oil degrades it gets heavier—if it’s as heavy as water then it’s basically tar. Tar is mostly inert and not so much a threat to the environment.
Wondering what’s going on here...
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