Posted on 05/28/2010 8:10:12 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
I took a break from work, and watched the live feed for a minute. I either just saw the whole thing entirely blow out, or BP is implementing LMRP or hot tap right now.
Specifically, I saw a HUGE rain of white clumps and particles which are either foam-like objects used in a junk shot or methane hydrates.
Then all of the water within the camera view got very, very dark. When I looked more closely, I could make out the outline of massive jet-black plumes of oil rising from below the camera.
At least as of right now (6:00 pm Pacific Standard Time), if you look at the live video feed below, you can see what I mean.
This is either very, very bad, or BP has abandoned the top kill/junk shots altogether and is in the middle of surgery where it has already cut off sections of the BOP and/or riser, and is trying to cap it off with a sealing grommet.
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Ive lived all around the watery parts of the world,
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I don’t know what “watery” parts you have lived on but it doesn’t get much “watery” than where I live and I have caught lobster every summer for 20 years. Sorry your “watery” places don’t have them.
pssst..... June..... hurricane season begins.
Motion is relative! Surely it was the ROV being jostled as it “docked” with the riser structure that caused the image movement.
Yes it does :) and don’t forget the the 2 days in late July called the 2 day mini season in late July before they begin to put the traps out on August 1st. They can pull on the 6th.
Is Obama putting them into the pipe?
Google lobster season Florida. I’m tired of arguing with people that don’t know what they are talking about.
We get them ourselves. All it costs us is the gas for the boat.
Gorilla Glue is a lot of fun!
So youre a lucky **** that lives on the coast.
Whaaa Whaa Whaa
Do paddle that boat of yours? Do you power your SUV ala Fred Flintstone?
Where do you get the gas jazzhat?
Man up and admit you were wrong.
Biology
Four spiny lobsters off the Florida coastLike most decapods, the Florida spiny lobster hatches from eggs carried externally by the female. They begin life as a free-swimming, microscopic larvae. After undergoing several molts, they settle to the sea floor and live in holes or crevices in the reef or between mangrove roots. As they grow, they molt or shed their exoskeleton to make room for their larger bodies. As in other decapods, after molting, the new exoskleton or shell is soft, and has to harden. During this time, the lobster is highly vulnerable to predation and as a result they are usually very retiring until the new exoskleton hardens fully. They consume detritus, vegetable material, and dead animals and fish they find on the bottom.
P. argus is a nocturnal species, taking to cover during the day. They serve as prey for octopuses, nurse sharks, triggerfish, loggerhead turtles, harbor seals off the Carolinas and sometimes down into Florida, bottlenose dolphins, and stingrays, although their greatest predator is man. Although they generally prefer to remain near cover, at times groups of hundreds will line up and march across the floor of some of the waters of southern Florida’s Biscayne Bay, Card Sound, and Florida Bay. The purpose of these “migrations” is not known, but they generally occur in the fall and may be in response to falling temperatures in the shallows.
[edit] Habitat
Individuals can be found at depths of up to 90 metres (300 ft) from Brazil to North Carolina,including the entire Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and eastern South America, with occasional reports from West Africa.[1] Although they range throughout the entire Gulf of Mexico, in the northern portions of the Gulf they generally are only found at depths of 33 metres (108 ft) and greater due to the seasonal variation in the water temperature. Around the southern portion of the Florida peninsula and throughout the Bahamas and Caribbean, they are found in shallower water. They generally prefer habitat with some sort of cover and can be found around coral reefs, artificial reefs, sponges, bridge pilings, wooden bridge bumpers, piers, and under the prop roots of mangroves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panulirus_argus
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Hey asshat I specified spiny lobster and they arent prevalent in the majority of the gulf
I have the feeling BP is just putting on a show now and they will do nothing significant until the relief wells are closer to their mark.
They don't know the condition of the casing below the BOP and are afraid of loosing what little control the kink in the riser is giving to the oil and gas flow.
Read on several threads where the burst pressure on the casing is 10,000 pounds which probably means the working pressure is between 5,000 to 7,500 pounds.
That is probably degraded by now.
Hey asshat, I have a big SUV a big and my boat has a big as* gas tank that costs more to fill up than some people make in a month and I get it at the GAS pump. Just because I can admit this spill is devastating does NOT mean I’m some greenie that hates offshore drilling. I’m for drilling offshore and Alaska.
I guess some on FR are going to protect BP regardless of what they do. I’m not one of those. BP(Obongo’s pals) took shortcuts, they screwed up big time and now they are lying and covering it up. There response and the response of that idiot, sociopath, narcissist, usurper squatting in the WH has been deplorable. I guess you haven’t seen the reports yet that it’s at least 5 times if not more (as of right now) bigger than the Exon Valdez spill. Just sit back and watch, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
I’ll pray it misses me. You seem to think it’s no big deal, so let it come your way. You can have it lock stock and stinking, gooey barrel.... or I should say millions of barrels of oil and toxic disperants. Eat those oysters and shrimp, go right ahead, if you can find any alive in a year.
I had you pegged.
NIMBY
I agree about the Obama part.
What is worrying me is that they are saying the relief wells in August aren’t even a sure thing. If they miss the first time, it takes around a week to try again. I also heard that BP had stopped drilling the 2nd back up relief well. Not sure if that is true. I guess time will tell.
I have friends in the Coast Guard down here. I get some feedback from them and it’s not good. I have friends that are heading out there tomorrow. They are taking 3 boats out of Naples and going to take samples, videos and photos and dive on some of the deeper reefs in 100-120 feet.
and I had you pegged right away. In denial.
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