Oil spill forces Mobile Bay Ferry to shut down; no word on restart date
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/oil_forces_mobile_bay_ferry_to.html
Some real FACTS are needed to battle the FearMongering ......this helps....
A good find. Thorough and well laid out. The idea that the BOP was somehow going to fall over is simply ridiculous. Folks need to remember that it was strong enough NOT to break or tip when the riser pipe (and the TWO side-by-side segments of smaller piping inside it) were bent through an angle greater than 90 degrees. The force needed to do that was enormous, and yet the BOP and its anchoring well-string structure stayed solid.
When this thing started and people were calling BS on the 5000 barrels a day number they were called crazy. Turns out they were right and the leak is in (at least) the tens of thousands of barrels a day.
When people yelled about the underwater plumes that would bypass the booms to catch the oil they were called crazy. NOAA finally admited they exist only recently when in fact they were there from the start.
This pattern goes pretty much across the board; side effects of the dispersants, oil hitting the loop current, heavy security and media censorship, and the complete failures of the first few methods to cap the well.
So when these guys talk about further disaster I’m inclined to give them a listen.
THX.
Will see if I can get to the article very soon. LOL.
Much appreciated.