Posted on 06/25/2010 6:24:14 PM PDT by Qbert
OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Brown patches of oil floated hundreds of yards from coastlines, stretching from Mississippi to the Florida-Alabama border, a U.S. Coast Guard flyover showed Friday.
"It's probably a little bit more today than I'd seen in the past," said Lt. Cmndr. John Pack, who piloted the HC-144A propeller plane.
Jason Bucher, a Coast Guard air crewman, said oil near the shore is "definitely worse" than what he's seen during previous flyovers.
The beaches were mostly vacant Friday morning, and long stretches of boom near the shore were visible from the plane.
In Gulf of Mexico waters further south, long ribbons of orange mousse oil spread over the sea, eventually joined by large patches of dark oil, which increased in frequency as the well site neared. Light, plastic-looking sheen was also visible across much of the water.
"It's not this huge blob" of oil, said Justin Saia, a BP PLC spokesman who arranged the flyover for the Press-Register and flew on the plane. "It's very much spotted."
The aircraft dipped lower as the well site neared, and dozens of orange dots of oil, likely a few feet in diameter, came into view floating on the Gulf's surface.
"That's new. That hasn't been there. I've been flying on these for two months now," said Bucher, whose last flyover was Monday. "I don't know what those little orange dots are."
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I live in Santa Barbara, CA. Tomorrow there are going to be people on the beach holding hands and chanting as to create a symbolic boom to stop the black death in the Gulf.
Really, it is even being advertised on the radio.
So no one should worry, I am sure the chanting and hand holding with fix the leak and stop the damage.
“I live in Santa Barbara, CA. Tomorrow there are going to be people on the beach holding hands and chanting as to create a symbolic boom to stop the black death in the Gulf.
Really, it is even being advertised on the radio.
So no one should worry, I am sure the chanting and hand holding with fix the leak and stop the damage.”
I fear for this country...
"A Whale," billed as the largest oil skimmer vessel in the world, is seen docked at Norfolk International Terminal on Thursday, June 24, 2010. It was to set sail today for the Gulf area, where it hopes it can be put into use with BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup efforts. ------------- After over 2 months, we're going to get some skimmers in the Gulf. Great job obama. sarcasm/
It's because his name isn't "Bush".
I hope the “Big One” swallows them whole. 8.8 on the Richter.
“Nothing”, and he does it better than President ever.
maybe it was all a grand plan ... “ never let a good crisis go to waste “
Thanks. it is so weird.
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Oxnard, California: A helicopter company and an emergency response team from Naval Base Ventura County are deploying resources to assist with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Aspen Helicopters Inc. of Oxnard has secured a government contract to send a special observation aircraft to transport U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists to look for soiled seabirds and marine mammals. The plane left Saturday for Louisiana and flight observations were to begin Sunday.
“We’re standing by to send a second aircraft that I might send down later in the week if they need it,” said Rick Throckmorton, Aspen’s director of operations.
Aspen has three of the specialized aircraft — Partenavia P-68 “Observers” — which are regularly used to count sea otters, birds, California sea lions and seals. GPS recording devices relay animal sightings to ground personnel or support boats. At 500 feet above the sea, the planes produce little sound so as not to disturb wildlife, and they are equipped with glass-nosed cockpits and bubble observation windows.
“With that glass nose you can just see everything,” Throckmorton said.
http://m.vcstar.com/news/2010/may/03/ventura-county-resources-sent-to-assist-with-oil/
From the article: “The spill in the Gulf is a tragedy...but I hope it can also be a clarion call for changing our energy and environmental policies to bring us a more sustainable future. The organizers and participants of ‘Stand in the Sand’ display the motivation not only on the Central Coast, but across the country, to make the long lasting changes required to transition to a clean energy economy in the wake of this disaster.”
Ok, now I understand. I thought maybe they were a bunch of zonked out surfers at first, but they’re a bunch of cap-and-taxers...
“Probably a bunch of stoned cap and taxers.”
Malodorous, too. :-)
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