Posted on 06/15/2010 1:47:42 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
A friend of mine is flying for a group of media photogs in the Gulf of Mexico. He took these pics yesterday and emailed them to me. First few are his, taken with his iPhone, last few were taken by one of the press photog's using a digital camera.
Thanks for the amazing and somewhat frightening pictures! I’ve emailed a link to this site to my friends and family around the country. Can we save the pics in case you disappear? :)
I can't give you a source for the information, but I've seen it posted several times on oil spill threads, with links attached.
Apparently, the Russians closed some leaking sub-sea wells with low yield tactical nukes at one time.
There are some people saying that the sea floor is already fractured and leaking a large quantity of oil in addition to what’s coming out of the well head. Of course you know by now that BP has admitted that the well pipe is ruptured way below the sea bed and since there’s a lot of soft, permeable stuff before you get to the rock, the oil is spreading into the soft layer below the well head in addition to gushing out the well head itself.
In fact, I have read that BP increased the flow at the well head in order to decrease the pressure and flow down below. One reason is to try to preserve the well structure long enough to get the relief wells done. Some experts have voiced the opinion that they do not believe the well structure will last long enough to do that and then the options on what to do are unknown. Just to make things more of a challenge, there’s a fault line in the vicinity - the New Madrid - I think it is called. Unfortunately this could be a much longer term prospect than a few months.
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Great pics, thanks. Too bad the big Dutch ocean skimmers were turned down.
That will come back to haunt Obama.
Can we use a tactical nuke to close the Chicago shipping canal instead? The Asian carp are another environmental disaster Obozo has stood in the way of preventing.
Not sure what this has to do with the thread topic. You don't think women should have equal rights?
Obama wants this spill to be a disaster so he can use it to promote his climate change legislation. We have an anti-American traitor in the White House who needs to be impeached, tried for treason and sent to Gitmo to rot with his buddies.
Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope told a Maine newspaper last week that Obama is, in his view, the “best environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt.”
EXACTLY! He has been dragging his feet on purpose...
Not sure what this has to do with the thread topic. You don’t think women should have equal rights?
Actually I do, but that isn’t relative to this thread as a careful reading the second time should assist you. The equal rights for women as an act of the Congress, was not about equal rights for women and was rejected by the American people. my original comments below, were about the agenda of the democrat party.
confirming everything you never wanted to know about the democrat party and the agenda. Starting with the cosmetic killing of the unborn, equal rights for women, and going on to the destruction of everything an American holds dear, to include God, Country, the Constitution and the environment.
Doesn’t speak well for Teddy, does it?
When I read those threads I though there was a tad bit too much hysteria being induced, its also sane reasoning to keep the skies clear and safe for equipment.
All we need is a bunch of sightseers colliding with each other.
Mr. Williams of Transocean spelled it out directly in his interview with 60 Min. The BP execs (customer) told Transocean execs and engineers (contractor) to do it BP’s way because the well was already way behind on delivery and costing BP lots of money per hour it was not producing. I saw somewhere that BP has had over 8000 violations logged in the same time that Exxon has received only four.
It is becoming apparent that BP spent its political payoffs wisely at the time but with these recent photos and the video recording of the meetings on April 24th, those payoffs are going to be the “plumbers” scenario for this administration and quite possibly the entire political establishment.
What is becoming more apparent is the Obama adminstration, the MSM, and the political progressives are about to take an enormous pounding from the public. They did nothing for the first eight days and even refused help during that time. Then when the oil hits the barrier islands, their scene is set to make it a political case to take control of the oil industries operating in this country.
They can’t sell Cap & Trade to the public so they need a “crisis” to scare them into it. Now that it looks like this attempt to manage a crisis to their political ends is imploding, look for despiration to set in. It will be a very bumpy ride to November and the inductions of the new Congress and Senate in January.
This administration knew this was coming because several weeks out all of a sudden Buffet invest heavily in oil dispersants and BP execs started to sell rather large portions of their stock. Obviously as a hedge against what they were coming to realize this well had some real problems that have never been seen before.
Once the current BOP was in place and then faced with the realization that the pressures from the gas was way over safe limits, they were stuck. There was no way to replace it and the snowball was rolling towards an uncontrollable conclusion. Their efforts to bleed off as much pressure as possible was in vain.
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