Your pics and vids are welcome. There's nothing like a direct image.
Edger posted at yesterday's diary:
Seabed blow out ejecta, videoed by Viking Poseidon ROV 1.
The blow out continues with approximately 2,250 PSI of oil going lost. UPDATE: YouTube of another secondary outflow below. Senator Nelson confirms info.
Back on April 20th a strong shock wave holed DWH's BOP/manifold structure. Other pipes and joints were also blasted. Now an estimated 2,250 PSI of oil is escaping.
BP claims "puzzling pressure readings."
For every truth, there is an attractive Chernobyl-modeled lie. This blow out could leak for years.
More BTF :::
UPDATE :::
Second example of seabed oil spew from early in the post-blow out period.
May 11th - Oil and gas ejecta
We can be certain that the industry contingent at DKOS will want to deny that this is oil, that a BP-financed ROV feed is really a ROV feed, and then want to question what the verb "is" means.
"Res ipsa loquitur."
Good luck, boys and girls.
This evidence speaks for itself. And the 9,000 PSI steam of ejecta that was observed exiting the BOP/manifold hole was also working mightily to expand these alternative exits.
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Corporate lying is nothing new. If they want a war, they'll make up Weapons of Mass Destruction and send an army half-way around the world. If they want to yank the chains on Gulf Coast residents, they'll make up a cut-off event that ends the BP oil spew.
Screwing with peoples' heads is the game. Quotes from the victims:
- "I'm happy the well is shut off, that there's a light at the end of the tunnel," said Tony Kennon, mayor of hard-hit Orange Beach, Ala. But "I'm watching people moving away, people losing their jobs, everything they've got. How can I be that happy when that's happening to my neighbor?"
- In Grand Isle, La., most of the summer rental cottages are vacant, tables at the single high-end seafood restaurant are empty, and souvenir shops are barely doing enough business to pay the bills. A hand-painted sign along the main road rechristens the tourist town "Grand Oil." Folks are grateful the gusher has been stopped, but many say it is too late to save this summer. Thousands of tourists have gone elsewhere.
- (As a prime example of Ad Biz framing) Tim Kerner, mayor of Lafitte, La., said the crisis isn't over by a long shot. "There's millions and millions of gallons of oil out there, and they need to keep the fishermen working," he said. "We need to constantly have that boom up absorbing oil along the banks and hard boom in the bayous to protect the marshland. It's no time to pull back. It's time to continue to fight until we know it's over." Kerner added: "I don't want everybody to think we won this battle. This battle's going to be ongoing for a while."
They've sold this poor SOB Kerner on fantasies. first, that the Gulf littoral can be protected. And second that soon enough to continue the same way of life in place, it will be over. Just gotta hang in there, sorta.
The reality is that scientists are repeating known facts.
-- Crude oil is long-term toxic at 5 parts-per-million.
-- The legal limit for oil concentration for an ocean dumping is 15 parts-per-million. Anything higher causes environmental destruction, a.k.a. ecocide.
-- Half-life for oil is 2 years with optimal degradation conditions. The means the oil is on the surface, exposed to sunlight, fixed in place, under warm temperatures.
-- Approximately 20% of the DWH crude has surfaced so far. The remaining 80% is less buoyant, perhaps from having less natural gas infused. The 80% will resurface over a 5 year period.
-- The dominant deep water current in the DWH area is a counterclockwise cyclone pattern. This current moves very slowly. This geostrophic (not wind driven) cyclone has been stable as far back as deep water measurements have been taken. The cyclone will not feed the BP oil spew on to the Loop Current -- plus there is another circular current that will also buffer oil away from the Loop Current.
The more oil that comes to the surface near DWH, the worse for Louisiana and Mississippi. Also, the worse for Texas or Alabama and Florida when a hurricane comes through and drives coagulated waves of oil spew ashore.
-- No known low-cost technology exists to defend shoreline from massive amounts of oil. Booms are defeated by waves. Soaking up oil is a very small scale technology. Burning and skimming are only useful for restricted circumstances.
The science of the situation is anything but optimistic. An adequate boom system costs $12 MM a mile. And that doesn't work against a hurricane.
A major ecocide has been committed. The spin out of BP runs the other way. "Good news" from BP and AP:
...the signs were promising but far from conclusive.
Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said on an evening conference call that engineers had found no indication that the well has started leaking underground.
"No news is good news, I guess that's how I'd say it," Wells said.
Engineers are keeping watch over the well for a two-day period in a scientific, round-the-clock vigil to see if the well's temporary cap is strong enough to hold back the oil, or if there are leaks either in the well itself or the sea floor. One mysterious development was that the pressure readings were not rising as high as expected, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the crisis.
Allen said two possible reasons were being debated by scientists: The reservoir that is the source of the oil could be running lower three months into the spill. Or there could be an undiscovered leak somewhere down in the well. Allen ordered further study but remained confident.
"This is generally good news," he said. But he cautioned, "We need to be careful not to do any harm or create a situation that cannot be reversed."
The well was showing 9,000 PSI at the hole in the BOP/manifold early on. That was calculated from the expansion ratios.
Failing to do an emergency "pinch" as recommended by the Russians, Saudi-based engineers, and the French, this 9,000-PSI-plus-vibrations got 3 months to press out against the pipes and joints of the wrecked DWH system.
Oil was spewing from the seabed by June 18th.
Optimism ??? What ? Why ?
Is it that these people in positions of power love lying too much ?
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