[justa-hairyape]

Not seeing NG and oil yet. The oil products have to push out the sedimentary channels first, then we should be seeing more of the oil products over time. Anytime you move sediments laterally underwater, you get turbidity. So I am assuming the same happens vertically. Gonna take a while to move through a few miles of sediments. All makes sense, so far. Pressure from rising oil products pushing out sedimentary turbidity as there clear out vertical channels.

[justa-hairyape]

One other point, after traveling a few miles through the sediments, the oil products will become intermixed with the sediment. Not gonna initially see the clean type of flow we got out of the stack. We eventually will, if a large enough vertical channel gets carved out, but by then you might as well pack up the ROVs and go home. At any rate, the first large smoke plume I saw was rising and being bent by the current. Rising slowly, but still rising high off the bottom.