Boat engine causes oil to rise from seafloor --"Just dead, everything's dead"

[Generic Other]

Run time: 01:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MF-aLatJyw   Posted on YouTube: November 28, 2010 By YouTube Member: OilFlorida Views on YouTube: 6   Posted on DU: November 29, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 4102

 
Via rawimagefilms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZM2dh... -- November 24, 2010

[bertman]

1. Shame we have to get real reporting from Al Jazeera instead of ABC,

NBC, CNN, etc.

Somebody give me a pom pom.

[Generic Other]

2. Never ceases to amaze me either

I would dearly love our media to start acting like journalists instead of minor celebrities.

[chervilant]

19. OMG!!

MINOR celebrities?!? You are entirely too kind. Our species has taken hierarchy to heretofore unheard of levels, and conflated fame with the number of times one appears on the magic box.

One wonders: will we GET a clue and STOP elevating people because they have money or frequent access to the boob tube?

[Aaria]

3. My feelings exactly.

[Blacksheep214]

4. This is REAL news!

Anything with Palin in it is entertainment, NOT news!

Let's get back to the basics, shall we?

[Altoid_Cyclist]

5. The US corporate media and government at their best once again.

BP, Transocean, Halliburton, the US media and our "leaders" have managed to persuade too many people (including some here) that it's time to look ahead once again.

The magical oil eating bacteria eliminated almost all of the oil months ago we were told. No long term damage will result from this we were told.
Why it's so clean that the first family went for a dip in the Gulf we were told.

Why should the oil companies and our leaders listen to the people who actually live in the Gulf and have had their way of life destroyed? They're only the "little people", not corporations that we "need" for the future of America.

Between the GOM BS and what's going on in the Marcellus and other large gas containing shale regions, it's all too obvious that our politicians (too many of them) are only able to hear what the corporations have to say.

Makes me proud to be an American :sarcasm:

[midnight]

6. They are lying. I quess the people of Lousiana are not going

to be trusting the experts when they see oil caked to their beaches......

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. K

This is beyond tragic.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended for the OP and that's a nice Polar Bear pic.

:thumbsup:

[Harry Monroe]

8. Um...not to quibble, but that is not a seafloor

It's a marsh. I've lived in S. Louisiana. But I wouldn't eat anything caught in the marshes where the oil ended up. There is also fishing/shrimping etc. in the Gulf of Mexico; its bottom could properly be called a seafloor. And yes, oil has settled on the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico as well and will eventually work its way up the foodchain. Most of the oil still visible washed up in the marshes on the coastline.

[Old Time Pagan]

9. While we're examining details

Why was that guy wearing shiny white boots? I've got my degree in Fisheries Biology and in all my field work I've never seen anybody wear shiny white boots in a marsh or estuary. That was a bit creepy and an unnecessary distraction from the content of the report.

Picking nits of course but somebody has to do it.

[wordpix]

13. maybe he wants to show his white boots to Feinberg & Obama, after he walks around some

[hootinholler]

14. To keep his feet dry

And because he's a shrimper. Shrimpers wear shiny white boots all along the gulf. Every one I've ever met.

-Hoot

[axollot]

17. They all wear those boots down there that work in fishing. My brother has them too -

they are rubber and wash off. Not sure why the white but that's what the guys are wearing. Just the boat owner had brand new ones on for the camera!

Cheers
Sandy

[Harry Monroe]

21. You obviously have never been down in South Louisiana

They're euphemistically known as "Cajun Reeboks". They're shrimp boots. If you've spent any time in Louisiana, you'd know what they are. Or perhaps you were being sarcastic?

[Old Time Pagan]

32. Thank you all for the explanation,

Nope never been to the Gulf, I'm a Pacific NW boy. I've done everything in my power to avoid the south before the Gulf disaster and I see no reason to change my plans. Don't like snakes, bugs, fire ants, africanized honeybees or hot humid weather. Glad there are those of you happy to live in places like that and I certainly don't want you to feel bad about your choice, just not for me.

Purposely choosing to wear white boots while working in a wet, mucky environment, why didn't I think of that? I think I'll buy a pair to wear next time I muck out the sheep shed and stomp, NOT.

[femrap]

10. And why aren't there people

out there cleaning it up??? Only the silent sheeple are allowed to clean up?

[JNelson6563]

11. Yet LA's much vaunted Gov says it's all good!

Yes, the darling of DU has been lying his ass off. Oh and the poeple of LA screaming bloody murder cause there's a moratorium on drilling..."Let them ruin it even more!" they cry.

All kinds of stupid going on down there, between teh lies and the plain old stupidity, I'm not sure which I find worse.

Julie

[wordpix]

12. just as many of us surmised---the oil sank into sediments & did not "disappear"

:grr:

[axollot]

16. When I was out- there in July - that's exactly what I said. Just dead - it's all dead.

I went out on the water with my brother who is a crabber in the area of the MS Sound (that little bight near NOLA/MS). However, the MS Sound area has rebound to some degree as he is back at work. *shrugs* Some areas have been hit much harder.

cheers
Sandy

[chervilant]

20. Really?

I still will not eat anything that come out of the Gulf--probably for the rest of my life.

[axollot]

23. Ya. Though I'm not as positive about it, some parts were not hit as hard as other areas that

received direct hits with oil (i.e. Plaquemines Parrish was a ground zero for the oil coming ashore) and the Sound was the last area to get any oil. I don't think I can eat anything out of there either.

Cheers
Sandy

[DeSwiss]

18. K&R n/t

[Jakes Progress]

22. Did anyone really think

that millions and millions of gallons of crude oil dumped in to the gulf and drifting on shore and falling on the bed wouldn't effectively kill everything? Why would we believe any of these liars?

Glossing over the problem, telling people it doesn't exist. Just so we can get back to doing it again.

[axollot]

25. Nope. And I find it amazing when people from the area think it's all gone. Despite that some areas -

are doing better than others after oil came ashore. I just came back from another week there, the place is still so f.up from Katrina, it's hardly prepared to handle this - Katrina was like bombing it back to the stone age. It's become a sort of redneck wild west. I had to stay w/my 18yr old niece one night while my brother was at work (she is visiting) and I slept w/2 loaded guns. A .25 and a pump action shot-gun - which is the international sound for "get off my land".

Cheers
sandy

[obxhead]

30. Many people here on DU have said exactly that.

Of course had John McCain won in 08 I'm sure they would be singing a different tune.

[pam4water]

24. So depressing K&R

[cwydro]

26. Not surprised.

At all.

[Shining Jack]

27. K&R

I have a ton of four letter words popping in my head right now. :(

[democrank]

28. Wait just a minute....

I KNOW I heard a representative from BP and the federal government singing a duet.

Everything is beautiful......

[Johnny Morales]

29. I guess we should assume that Bobby Jindel and Haley Barbour are working behind the scenes

to help these guys.

I mean it's the only way I can figure they can place all the blame on the federal government and BP while completely forgetting their own state leadership and what they say is the case.

[Generic Other]

31. They are equally culpable, maybe more so

but they have less money, less power and always use any misfortune to promote themselves. No they don't get a pass. They are just insignificant nobodies (probably with well-lined pockets) in the larger scheme of things. All noise signifying nothing.