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Firstly. JAHA. I can see frusration as you point to some given occurance via. a given camera, ping people, only hours later they check out given cam to see something different. ROV's moving about doing other things etc..
As I watch OLY 2 at about 2:30PM EST along with the other 11 views. I see super turbid conditions. Sometimes it appears the ROV is moving close to the sea bed floor, other times stops.... tons of stuff swirling around... many little critters zooming about within the swirls... then I look at the other cams, and see almost no current action as ROV's such as the Q4000 are opening and closeing valves on a control panel.
About the only thing that stays relatively constant is the cam showing the extremely slow leak of transparent bubbles.
Today it looks as if they are coming off at about half the rate they where yesterday. Almost no bubbles. I do not discount what others may view on occasions on the sea floor. But I caution myself with the possibility that they (BP) may be removing a lot of junk off the sea floor from earlier hook ups, as well as a general cleanup operation of things left on the sea floor from the Horizon vessel.
Operations that can stir up the bottom. When one yanks a long flexible pipe that was partly buried one would expect to see a lot of stuff slowly disperse into the water... currents moving it about as it slowly settles downward etc..
I think we sometimes are seeing things that at first appear to be a problem that are not a problem. But I do not discount the videos taken and stored on Utube etc., that do show some small leaks from the sea bed floor of hydrocarbons .
Again. Was this the norm prior to the well even being drilled? As some at the TOD and elsewhere make claim.
At any rate. Thanks for your continue deligence in getting out things that can or cannot have a positive or negative impact regarding this operation.
I don't want to become cynical in either direction.
Probably most of the oil that had not been collected or burned off is now in the cell structure of the microbs in the form of metabilized compounds that make the microbs healthy and able to continue to seek their favorite food sources.