re: Oil Spill and Offshore Fishing (Latest Developments)

I'm pretty sure the LMRP is still on the BOP. There are hydraulic reservoirs that have been put on the sea floor for the ROV's to use in their operations with the BOP.

Deepest Atmospheric Dive Suit (hardsuit) dive is 2000', I think, to date. U.S. Navy.

The BOP get's lowered to the sea floor by the riser. Each riser piece is roughly 90' tall. So they make connection by connection until it's close to the well head. The last riser piece on the surface get's connected to rigs control systems and tensioners. The tensioners then lower the BOP onto the wellhead to be latched up.

In order to get the LMRP off of the BOP, They will need to cut off the riser that has fallen to the sea floor. Before any of that happens, they'll need to shut the well in.

I'm thinking nothing will be released to the press until they are in the clear with shutting the well in.