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BP spill and some other questions...
Posted on 7/3/15 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 7/3/15 at 12:23 pm
Was just wondering if the marshes and coastal habitat down there are coming back? And I've never been able to find out just exactly WHAT caused the fire on the platform that started this whole disaster? I know absolutely zilch about offshore drilling rigs. Never have seen one except in yall's pictures. Is there now a "dead" zone out there in the gulf? I don't trust news reports on this. I'll go with what you locals have to say...
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Posted on 7/3/15 at 12:38 pm to BFIV
Dis gonna be good
Posted on 7/3/15 at 1:12 pm to BFIV
Dispersants sank a lot of it, its probably just sitting on the bottom of the GOM. Shorelines and animal life soaked up untold gallons of oil. Millions of gallons for sure. Long term effects are probably not good as far as the critter food chain is concerned. We will all most likely die of cancer. Of note, restaurants and bars all along Mississippi and Alabama coasts profited quite a bit from the whole ordeal; some people deserved retribution and didn't get it, others didn't deserve it and made "bank". So it goes.
There has been a dead zone for years at the mouth of the river. Why not the GOM as well?
BP got off too easy I say. They will not miss a beat.
There has been a dead zone for years at the mouth of the river. Why not the GOM as well?
BP got off too easy I say. They will not miss a beat.
Posted on 7/3/15 at 1:58 pm to BFIV
Not sure what the marsh looks like but
Power pole!!!!
Power pole!!!!
Posted on 7/3/15 at 2:43 pm to Motorboat
frick a power pole, I'm lookin' at sports cars and beach houses, bitches!
Posted on 7/3/15 at 3:33 pm to OTIS2
The real answer is we dont know. But you can catch fish now and should do so
Posted on 7/3/15 at 5:52 pm to Honest Tune
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Dispersants sank a lot of it, its probably just sitting on the bottom of the GOM.
I worked with BP on this and I don't believe that the oil sank. At least two tropical storms went through the gulf that summer and just churned that shite up to the point where mother nature took care of it. I was part of a group monitoring the oil on a daily basis and it was basically gone after those storms came through
Posted on 7/3/15 at 6:08 pm to CE Tiger
That's a relief
Posted on 7/3/15 at 8:12 pm to CE Tiger
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I worked with BP on this and I don't believe that the oil sank
Ima gonna call BS on this. FYI I was on one of rigs drilling the relief wells & BP was spraying everyday to keep the oil off the surface to protect the rigs out there. I've seen a lot of the ROV feeds during this project so don't try pulling this BS
Posted on 7/3/15 at 8:21 pm to BFIV
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And I've never been able to find out just exactly WHAT caused the fire on the platform that started this whole disaster?
Short story a lot of people did some short cuts. Blowout occurred & when the gas found the engine room the fire erupted. There is a video put together from Discovery channel or history channel that is pretty accurate. The names are the folks that was there but the faces are not them. There is a toolpusher on it that tried to say the negative test was BS & a good friend of mine
Posted on 7/3/15 at 8:46 pm to Nascar Fan
Posted on 7/3/15 at 8:54 pm to Nascar Fan
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I was on one of rigs drilling the relief wells & BP was spraying everyday to keep the oil off the surface
I left the DD1 in November 2009. I watched every bit of news on the blowout I could. I've always looked for folks with some first hand experience with killing that well.
Btw...you still working with MW?
Posted on 7/3/15 at 9:02 pm to DonChowder
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Btw...you still working with MW?
It's WW & no he got a settlement.
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I've always looked for folks with some first hand experience with killing that well.
Was pushing on the DD2. We pulled the casing on the blowout well after it was killed
Posted on 7/3/15 at 9:14 pm to Nascar Fan
Thanks, NASCAR! Your post on this is the FIRST information I've heard on what caused it. News media didn't report that information and I'm willing to be that BP won't tell it, either. I don't understand the industry jargon, though: toolpusher, blowout, pushing, etc...
This post was edited on 7/3/15 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 7/3/15 at 10:07 pm to BFIV
Mother Nature is resilient as hell. I'll say that
Posted on 7/3/15 at 10:19 pm to Nascar Fan
Was a ROV pilot on the Viking Poseidon during that. I spent many days backed up underneath the Enterprise with that damn flair boom going off. The man power, technology, and equipment out there for that was pretty amazing.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 8:39 am to Nascar Fan
so don't try pulling this BS
i have no allegiance to BP, just was a contractor but saw the oil flights everyday and the dispersant did just that dispersed the oil and let mother nature do its thing. before the storms you could fly over the gulf and find big mats and blops of oil after the storms the oil was alot harder to find. i just don't believe its chilling on the bottom of the gulf as a big tar mat
i have no allegiance to BP, just was a contractor but saw the oil flights everyday and the dispersant did just that dispersed the oil and let mother nature do its thing. before the storms you could fly over the gulf and find big mats and blops of oil after the storms the oil was alot harder to find. i just don't believe its chilling on the bottom of the gulf as a big tar mat
Posted on 7/4/15 at 8:55 am to CE Tiger
Posted on 7/4/15 at 8:59 am to BFIV
Toolpusher is a job title.
Blowout is just how it sounds. Whether it be water, oil, mud or whatever.
Blowout is just how it sounds. Whether it be water, oil, mud or whatever.
Posted on 7/4/15 at 9:16 am to BFIV
For the lucky few that went into the Biloxi Marsh during the fishing moratorium, it was something very special. Not only were the fish there, they were there in huge numbers. With commercial fishing closed the ecosystem exploded with life in a very short amount of time.
While I think the effects of the spill will not be clear anytime soon, I am willing to bet they are far worse than anticipated. However, judging from what I saw during the moratorium, I think our abuse of the fishery is exponentially worse.
While I think the effects of the spill will not be clear anytime soon, I am willing to bet they are far worse than anticipated. However, judging from what I saw during the moratorium, I think our abuse of the fishery is exponentially worse.
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