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Jack
20-05-10, 12:58 PM
Some pics of the recent oil spill; around 5,000 barrels are leaking into the Gulf waters - thats about 210,000 gallons each day.

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above01.jpg
Shrimp boats used by local fishermen temporarily employed by BP to collect oil

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above02.jpg
Oil moving through the water. To get an idea of scale, thats an oil rig in the top right...

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above06.jpg
Construction of the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet) blockade

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above07.jpg
Another shrimp boat dragging booms to collect oil

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above11.jpg

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above12.jpg
Support craft heading to the site of the leak, and a rig drilling a relief well

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above13.jpg
Oil in the waters of Chandeleur Sound

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above15.jpg
A boat contacts the oil

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/may10/oil_above_sm/oil_above16.jpg
Oil affecting the Chandeleur Islands



...on the plus side, its hammered the price of oil at the moment, $68 FTW lol
muzzy
20-05-10, 01:01 PM
It's crazy how much damage oil can make when it mixes with water. Fair play to BP for cleaning it up though, it wasn't they're rig in the first place. Still I suppose the PR wouldn't have been worse than it already is if they had just ignored it.
GRUNT 16V
20-05-10, 01:01 PM
Wow !!!!!! Its Huge !!!
Jack
20-05-10, 01:05 PM
It's crazy how much damage oil can make when it mixes with water. Fair play to BP for cleaning it up though, it wasn't they're rig in the first place. Still I suppose the PR wouldn't have been worse than it already is if they had just ignored it.
That would be the case IF they were actually trying; at the mo all they're doing is throwing money at local fishermen to do most of the work. The whole tank thing they're doing to contain the leak is totally untested in deep water and probably won't work.

What they should be doing, in fact what they should have done weeks ago, was get the national guard to nuke the leak, which would have avoided all this in the first place.
General Baxter
20-05-10, 01:06 PM
set fire to it, would look wikid lol
Angus Closier
20-05-10, 01:12 PM
^^ Didnt they try that allready? Might be just me but im sure on the news they said they couldnt get it burning or somthing due to it being spread to much allready? Looks bad though.....shame this sort of thing happens!!
muzzy
20-05-10, 01:14 PM
That would be the case IF they were actually trying; at the mo all they're doing is throwing money at local fishermen to do most of the work. The whole tank thing they're doing to contain the leak is totally untested in deep water and probably won't work.

What they should be doing, in fact what they should have done weeks ago, was get the national guard to nuke the leak, which would have avoided all this in the first place.

Surely you don't think that they would do the right thing first do you? The way it works is you throw millions at the problem, realise it's not working then do what you should have done in the first place. By that point the damage is already done.

Are Transocean doing anything seeing as it was they're platform in the first place?
General Baxter
20-05-10, 01:38 PM
you think jack, all the oil would of got your v6 to nats and back lol
mowgli
20-05-10, 01:40 PM
is the red stuff algae eating it?
Jack
20-05-10, 01:49 PM
^^ Didnt they try that allready? Might be just me but im sure on the news they said they couldnt get it burning or somthing due to it being spread to much allready? Looks bad though.....shame this sort of thing happens!!
Plus burning would only remove the surface gunk. Its the undersea stuff thats worse.
Jim Mcrae
20-05-10, 04:47 PM
What a waste of oil :(
General Baxter
20-05-10, 04:54 PM
plenty more where that come from lol
Bubba
20-05-10, 05:19 PM
that oil rig pic is immense
Andy
20-05-10, 05:50 PM
That looks like my street when it rains
Hobbit
20-05-10, 05:59 PM
I dunno what all the fuss is about. Crude oil is biodegradable.
muzzy
20-05-10, 06:00 PM
I remember my tutor at college telling us that if you put some really small amount of oil in a lake, that it would end up covering the whole area of water. Not sure the exact amount of oil he said or if it was true or not.
Mike
20-05-10, 06:03 PM
Crazy **** :S
Lee
20-05-10, 06:54 PM
Looks like head gasket to me
Bubba
20-05-10, 06:56 PM
Looks like head gasket to me

LMAO
Jack
20-05-10, 07:32 PM
I dunno what all the fuss is about. Crude oil is biodegradable.
True, but it takes a while to break down and its the mess it causes in the meantime thats the problem lol