Screen Captures of BP Oil Disaster

[mixin]

All of these screen captures are mine; except for a couple of the technical ones that I found on the net. First, here is a list of live cams; but they come and go, so what works now might not be working tomorrow.

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/
http://abcnews.go.com/video/video?id=6046305
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2
http://bp.isevil.org/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html
http://mxl.fi/bpfeeds2/
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentId=7062605

This is of the well itself. :tiphat: to Timebomb2000. The curved part at the top, down to the blue line directly below it is where most of the problems were/are.

I also included an attachment that I found on the Tree of Liberty :tiphat: but it's a big one to open.

 

[mixin]

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Note: I know nothing about oil wells and my comments are only my understanding of things I've read on the net. Anyone may feel free to add comments, corrections, etc.

This is the connection below the kink where they did a lot of cutting in preparation for placing the cap on the well




This is from Doomer site :tiphat: showing the diamond saw attached to the well.



A little better picture of the saw as they were lowering it down

 

[mixin]

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This is the machine that released the chemical dispersant into the oil plume



A different view of the plume




A couple of other pics showing the gushing oil

 

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There is a lot of activity going on currently; I have no idea what all they are doing.

Here they were having some problems trying to make this new connection



Robot hand making some adjustment






Not sure what this is; just something floating along

 

[mixin]

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There's been some concern that the housing is cracked and the whole thing might be leaning.



The bot is checking with an inclinometer



They've been watching these gages; not sure what they are for.

 

[mixin]

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There seem to be more and more of these floating things.



This is the location of the well; here's an interactive map:
http://gomex.erma.noaa.gov/erma.html#x=-90.42000&y=28.03000&z=6&layers=3930+4161+4166+497



Closer view the ocean floor



This is where I found the gomex link. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/06/visualizing-gulf-oil-spill-site.html
He has posted some good pictures of spill-related things; I especially like the different view of the ocean floor on his site.

He also brought up several interesting points: a) the well is located in a steep canyon, b) there are hundreds of feet of muck and mud in this area and c) many of the deepwater, oil-rich areas within the gulf are tectonically active.

 

[Emily]

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Thanks for posting the photos, Mixin. The white floating object looks like a jellyfish to me, but I could be wrong. There is an article here about a marine scientist's concerns about the deep water ecology that mentions jellyfish.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gulf_of_mexico_oil_spills_effe.html

 

[mixin]

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Emily,
I thought for a long time that I was seeing shrimp and jellyfish; and maybe some of them are. However, many of these shapes break up into small pieces as the float by.

From your link:

"A lot of organisms use the carbon from the hydrocarbons as a food source," including mussels that have oil-processing bacteria in their guts, Roberts noted. "When you come upon a seep, there's a tremendous explosion of life forms."

Some of the other watchers have spotted a few fish and a squid. Maybe with all the action and dispersants, they have gone elsewhere.

 

[Emily]

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It looks like there are some possible signs that deep water species are being displaced by the contamination.

http://www.aolnews.com/gulf-oil-spill/article/oil-spill-may-be-pushing-sharks-toward-florida-beaches/19513408

(June 11) -- The appearance of a huge man-eating shark near a Florida beach on the cusp of the summer swimming season would not usually evoke a sympathetic response from either beachgoers or local tourism boosters.

But the discovery of a weakened, disoriented tiger shark -- measuring more than 11 feet and weighing some 800 pounds -- in the surf of Nokomis Beach last month has become something of a poignant symbol for what scientists fear most from the gulf oil spill: the unknown effects of the massive underwater oil plume and dispersants on marine life beneath the waves...continued at link

 

[sharon sanders]

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Thank you Mixin and Emily.

 

[mixin]

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From the updates, things seem to be going along OK; although that opinion depends on who you're talking to.

The fishing expedition wasn't successful. Here are a couple of caps of what we were seeing as the camera was moving down the pipe; someone named it the Colon Cam and you can see why





This one was taken a little while ago; just because I thought it was beautiful. This is the sonar sweep cam.



There were other unusual sights down there:

 

[mixin]

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Colon cam was up and running this morning. I quit watching as a clog appeared to be working its way up.

From last night; I'm not sure what I was looking at. These pictures go from one end of the pipe to the other.

There was a lot of what appeared to be debris in this one; this might have been halfway up the length of the pipe.

This was at what I thought was the end; a smaller pipe rising out of the floor on the left.

Following the small pipe up to the end

 

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Here are a few caps from 9-15

I don't know what they were doing in this one; but I thought it was interesting

The ROV spotted a small black thing on the ocean floor and tried for a while to pick it up. When that failed, it got this nozzle and started clearing away the debris. It took about 2 hours to finally expose it. If all the damaged well debris is this "stuck", retrieval could be difficult and time consuming.

A couple of fish pics; it's always exciting to see life down there.

I've never seen one of these before; the ROV tried to get a good look, too.

 

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Most of the cams have been shut down over the last 2 days. They did show what I think is a survey of some of the wrecked platform debris.

There was a keen interest in this end of this container



As well as the label on it. If anyone can identify the logo, please let us know.



I don't have any idea what this is.



This looks like it could be part of the guardrail around what I think was the landing pad.

 

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They did a water column survey and I caught a couple caps of the sealife






I've been really curious about the Deepwater Horizon and what caused it to sink. Here are some of the links I've come across.

This one has really good pics of the last 4 minutes. The loss of life and the rig is truly sad.
http://www.bnet.com/photos/gulf-oil...xclusive/419915?seq=1&tag=mantle_skin;content

Here is one of what I consider the most dramatic; credit to Starfire Tor as author and researcher, and the Starfire Tor web page of origin from this web site
http://www.starfiretor.com/FEP/SecretSubmarineBPoilSpillPhotos2.htm



Here is some interesting speculation as to why the rig actually sank. When you realize how stable it was; it's hard to comprehend its sinking. BP claimed it landed upside down 1500 feet northwest of the well. http://www.slate.com/id/2253193/

Here's a link to a really good pic of the rig http://www.stevedrinkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Deepwater-Horizon-Photo.jpg

Here's a sister rig, showing the type of pontoons it sat on http://acrigs.com/Nautilus-Dry-Tow.jpg

Good general information http://wapedia.mobi/en/Deepwater_Horizon