Please rec the new Mothership #92 here. This one has expired.
The current ROV DIARY: Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #330 - Cantankerous ram - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera
Rules of the Road
- We take volunteers for subsequent diaries in the sub diaries or ROV's as we have playfully coined them.
- Please rec this mothership diary, not the ROVs.
- Please be kind to fellow kossacks who may have limited bandwidth and refrain from posting images or videos.
PLEASE visit Pam LaPier's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!
To repeat: please refrain from commenting in this mothership diary - it only serves to point people in the right direction.
Deepwater Horizon BP Oil Spill Reference Material
- from Whitis is the best source for everything.. The quantitative data diary has also been moved there.
The motherlode of technical data was removed but I located the 19 mb 48 page BP Accident Investigation Overview and the 12 mb 147 page Confidential TransOcean Assurance Analysis of the BOP with detailed control diagrams starting at page 56.
Kossak Sillia gives a concise explanation of the mothership and liveblog:
This diary, that is, the mothership, forms the hub from which you can reach the other diaries. Or, think of it as a table of contents in the front page of a book. You use this diary to find a link to the latest discussions. You can also find links here to past discussions (previous diaries) if you wanted to read them.
The actual liveblog diaries (in this case playfully referred to as a 'submersible' or ROV) is where the discussion is--once one of these gets so long that its size is cumbersome, they start a new one. So if you wanted to join in to the most current discussion, you'd click the most recent link. But they leave the links there so that people can still go back and read the older ones if they wish.
The reason for this setup is that it prevents the recommended list from being filled up with many diaries on the same topic. Instead just the mothership will appear on the rec list where everybody can find it, which they can use to navigate to the latest discussion. (That's why we are asked to "rec" the mothership but not the other diaries, just reduces confusion.)
I hope this is sort of what you were wanting to know...
A video primer on ROV Watching, from GW Regular sometv.
Video Feeds
44287/44668 - Ocean Intervention's ROV 1
44838/45135 - Ocean Intervention's ROV 2
46566/54013 - Viking Poseidon's ROV 1
55030/56646 - Viking Poseidon's ROV 2
31233/31218 - Boa Sub C's ROV 1
31219/33627 - Boa Sub C's ROV 2
45685/49182 - Skandi Neptune's ROV 1 (Hercules 14)
45683/45684 - Skandi Neptune's ROV 2 (Hercules 6)
47175/21144 - Discoverer Enterprise's ROV 1
21145/21327 - Discoverer Enterprise's ROV 2
37235/37270 - Q4000's ROV 1
35523/35624 - Q4000's ROV 2
41434/41436 - Olympic Challenger's ROV 1
40788/40789 - Olympic Challenger's ROV 2
24951/24975 - Discoverer Inspiration's ROV 1
30948/35246 - HOS Achiever's ROV 1
35461/36301 - HOS Achiever's ROV 2
Restore the Gulf.gov has put up a government sponsored multi-feed.
Bobo's lightweight ROV Multi-feed: A great low impact multi-view page
Once the best multi-view feed
BP Video Feed
CNN multi camera view
PBS This PBS feed is security compliant.
BP videos - Links to all available live feeds from BP
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola (contains link for an iPhone app at the bottom)
ABC News
A multi-view with feeds from BP, C-SPAN-2, WKRG, and PBS
Vote For America's awesome clickable multi-view
Links, courtesy of several Kossacks
- Summarized tally of affected wildlife
- Visualize the spill
- Nola.com
- h/t dov12348's recommended links
- The Oil Drum
- Oil & Gas Journal
- Offshore Magazine
- Petroleum News
- Your Oil and Gas News
- World Oil
- Administration response to spill.
- Donate to SkyTruth here. SkyTruth helps environmental NGOs use remote sensing (pictures taken from space) and digital mapping to improve their scientific credibility, conservation decisionmaking, communications and public outreach.
- Images of the Oilpacalypse, from Tomtech.
- Visit the Oil Spill Crisis Map to see where oil, mousse, tar balls, and eau de crude have been reported on the Gulf coast.
- The BP Deepwater Horizon Unified Command official website. Wherein you can read latest post warning of employment scams associated with the event and much more from the folks handling this.
- Timeline of response here.
- Timeline of the Event from April 20th being maintained by blogroots.
- Bit Tooth Energy blog (technical discussions) by the famed Heading Out, well known key poster on The Oil Drum blog site.
- Department of Interior BP Deepwater Horizon Response site provides updates, reports, data, links to pictures, etc.
- Rigzone for specific disaster news and news about the offshore industry, in general.
Liveblog diaries
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #330 - Cantankerous ram - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #329 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - greenbird
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #328 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #327 - Endless Fishin' - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #326 - The Dead Zone Edition - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Pam LaPier
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #325 - More fishin' - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Tomtech
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #324 - More fishin' - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #323 - Still fishin' - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - David PA
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #321 - Pulling the String - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #320 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Darryl House
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #319 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - gulfgal98
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #318 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #317: BP's Gulf Catastrophe - greenbird
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #316 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #315 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Darryl House
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #314 - As Summer Ends - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #313 - Ambient Waiting for the Order to Kill - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #312 - Ambient waiting for the order to kill - peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #311 - No Pressure: It's Ambient. - greenbird
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #310 - No pressure; it's ambient - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #309 - No pressure; it's ambient - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - David PA
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #308 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #307 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #306 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #305 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 304 - BP's Gulf Disaster - gchaucer2
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #303 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #302 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - KHowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #301 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #300 - Hopes and Dreams out of BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #299 - Still Waiting - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #298 - Waiting on the Relief Wells - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulfgal98
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #297 - Perplexity and Relief Wells - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Kairos
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #296 - The Well That Wouldn't Die - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 295 - Drill, BP, Drill - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - gchaucer2
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 294 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 293 - Cog Diss Watch - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - David PA
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 292 - Magic Cement Watch - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - gchaucer2
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #291 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #290 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 288 Storm Delay - BP's Gulf Disaster - Pam LaPier
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV # 287 Storm Delay - BP's Gulf Disaster - gchaucer2
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #286 - No META - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV 285 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Darryl House
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #284 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - GChaucer2
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #283 - Waiting and Watching - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Previous motherships and ROV's from this extensive live blog effort may be found here.
Information on our community can be found in Phil S 33's diary here. That diary having timed out, bigjacbigjacbigjac next took up the cause and posted a new bio diary here. The latest bio diary was posted by Ursoklevar on 7-25 and includes the bio's from the previous diaries in alphabetical order by user name.
If you'd like, feel free to join in by sharing a little about yourself there.
