BREAKING NEW UNDERWATER VIDEO: BP Oil "Plume" from the Largest Leak

[kgrandia]

The Deepwater Horizon Incident Response Center has released a shocking new video of the BP oil pipe leak at its source 5,000 feet down on the ocean floor.

Thick black crude oil that looks like an underwater volcano can be seen pumping uncontrollably into the water: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/breaking-new-underwater-video-bp-oil-plume-largest-leak

[KansDem]

1. Now, is this the 5-foot pipe?

I'm trying to grasp the extent of oil erupting into the Gulf here...

[Nathanael]

3. A second video has been relesed that gives you a sense of the scale

Check it out: http://energyboom.com/yes/bp-releases-video-failed-containment-dome-seabed

[KansDem]

4. Damn!!!

That's a 100-ton, 4-story tower and much of it is obscured by the oil!

And just today, a DU thread reported that BP said it would take another 75 days to finish "one of two relief wells it's drilling to shut down the flow!"

Thanks for the video...I think...

[tekisui]

2. Is this the underwater video that was scrubbed or removed?

[Change Happens]

5. I would fire a missle from a submarine directly into it...A direct hit into this pipe

may clog it?

[Nihil]

7. Well, it's a damn good job that you're not in charge then isn't it?

> I would fire a missle from a submarine directly into it...A direct hit
> into this pipe may clog it?

:eyes:

[UpInArms]

6. if $500,000 is too much to pay for a valve to stop this - then they have no freakin'

business drilling in the gulf to begin with - if that was too expensive a price - $500,000 for a valve - then they can't afford the clean-up - they can't afford the cost of doing bidness - they need not have even begun this endeavor - because they were too poor to afford a safety valve.

[Nihil]

8. Wrong.

The valve is there.
The valve did not work.
The presence or absence of yet another trigger for that valve is immaterial
as the existing triggers could not close the valve.

You want to worry about something that has SFA to do with this particular
oil tragedy? Worry about all of the other rigs drilling offshore of the US
and how few of them have that acoustic trigger ... and then start worrying
about how many of them have got "safety" valves like this ...