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06-01-2010, 07:45 AM
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not looking good folks. A buddy thats a charter captain hit it only 13 miles out yesterday from Dauphin Island. "They" estimate it being here in the next 24 hours or so. Our way of life on the coast is about to change horribly.
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06-01-2010, 10:28 PM
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This sucks. Seems like they are trying to "save" the well.
Anyone know more about the Russian's early recommendation of using a nuke to seal it? Granted i've read a lot of opinions including it being devistating to the area, but realistically what is worse? Others say it will open the well more... Not being in the oil industry i'm not sure if this would be feasible.
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06-03-2010, 01:12 AM
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No nukes in the Gulf please. There are enough things dying out there as it is.
What I have never understood from the beginning of all of this is why nobody positioned a tanker out there and put it to work collecting the oil/water as it comes to the surface. Instead, they loaded the oil with dispersant and allowed it to drift on top of and underneath the water to its hearts content, wherever the current took it. To nobody's great surprise, this latest adventure with the saw only seems to have made things worse. The diamond wire saw got stuck after a couple of hours of cutting and it took them all morning to get it loose. Now there is a new hole in the riser pipe, just beneath the original gusher, dumping what looks to be double the amount of oil as before, and the geniuses have given up and are babbling about Top Hats again. So thanks BP. You really blow.
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06-03-2010, 04:33 AM
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They were talking last night on the news about the possibility of "imploding" the well.....first thing that came to my mind was imagine if the F that up? instead of a 20" hole gushing oil will have a 100 yard diameter hole gushing oil.
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06-04-2010, 12:49 PM
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With each attempt at fixing the problem, they seem to have only succeeded in making it worse. When they clipped the bent riser pipe off the BOP yesterday with the giant shears, it looked like the flow more than doubled.
So far I have not seen a lot of progress with the AssHat that they put in position last night but supposedly they are not done messing around with it either. We shall see.
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