Welcome to the BP Junk Shot Diary #17. This diary is a submersible (ROV) for the Top Kill/Junk Shot Liveblog Mothership: 29 May, 2010 - Day Four.
Here we can follow BP's latest efforts to continue work on the Top Kill and/or Junk Shot.
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For a description of the mothership/ROV liveblogging process, check out this thread.
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The video feeds we are watching:
BP Video Feed
CNN Video Streams - Note: multi-view is sometimes unavailable.
PBS
BP videos - This link takes you to BP's home page, which contains a section called "Latest Video Updates from BP".
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola - Appears WKRG only has a still shot right now.
Oceaneering Video Portal
Courtesy of whitis here are two additional video links:
Primary feed.
Secondary feed.
From profgoose here is a list of links from The Oil Drum links on Newer Developments, etc.
Again, to keep bandwidth down please do not post images or videos.
Previous children diaries:
BP LiveBlog - Diary 16 - politik
BP LiveBlog - Diary 15 - RhymesWithUrple
BP LiveBlog - Diary 14 - johnsonwax
BP LiveBlog - Diary 13 - Middleagedhousewife
BP LiveBlog - Diary 12 - nika7k
BP LiveBlog - Diary 11 - Overseas
BP LiveBlog - Diary 10 - conchita
BP LiveBlog - Diary 9 - khowell
BP LiveBlog - Diary 8 - Garrett
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 7 - miep
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 6 - Alkalinesky
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 5 - Liveblog
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 4 - Garrett
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 3 - sc kitty
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 2 - conchita
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 1 - khowell
Top Kill has begun! - Tomtech
Updates:
-BP COO Doug Suttles says that top kill has failed and they will abandon this approach.
-Their next attempt will be to cut and remove the riser from the LMRP, installing a cap connected to the relief rig, and capture most of the escaping oil. Should take approx. 4 days but could take longer. BP is confident it will work but can't guarantee it.