[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seen this?:

This morning about 2am,

[justa-hairyape]

Seen it ? Got a video on it. Knew it was unusual. The video is up now and here is its description. Will go read the Oil Drum thread some more now.

July 29th 2010 00:58 pst. Various ROV feeds during a sonar scan anomaly. Sonar anomaly was on Q4000 ROV 1. Video starts with anomaly then the ROV goes into visual mode. Then the ROV moves slightly. Then I played around with windows a little and ended up back on the Q4000 ROV 1 sonar again. Then the ROV goes back into visual. Then the ROV moves to the left heading towards some panel. BP ROV video feeds released to the public.

Sonar Anomaly on Q4000 ROV 1

[Marine_Uncle]

I have a feeling nothing abnormal has occurred.
They are in the process of moving a lot of equipment around, lowering new pumps etc., cleaning out the RW drill bore for cementing etc., dragging pipes and other stuff around about the sea floor.
One could go nuts trying to figure out what is happening in any given ROV cam shot. The plumes if you want to call them that displayed in say the Deep Boa shots may simply be all the stuff they are cleaning out of the well bore that is now is circulating in the lower sea floor currents.
It may look like something is going wrong when it is simply the result of a maintenance activity.

[Marine_Uncle]

So what does it really mean. I for one plead ignorance as to how to interpret those radar scans relative to what should be seen assuming no external above sea bed activity is taking place, e.g. ROVs moving things about the sea floor bed proximate to the area of scans for instance.
One could assume if anything bad is happening it would show up on a consistent basis.
But thanks for the heads up.