Oil Spill in the Gulf - Live Cam Link - Truly Scary! (Also link for updates from Select Committee)

[1776Forever]

http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

You are watching a live video feed of the BP Oil Spill from the ocean floor, 5000 feet below the surface.

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Thank you to Chairman Ed Markey who requested this footage be made available to the public.

I don't know about you but I find this chilling! :scared:

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[lonestarnot]

1. And 5k deep is where the pulled the 5k barrels out of their ass I guess.

[randr]

2. Where is the pipe BP is supposedly sucking 5000 bbls at day through?

[1776Forever]

6. Yes, I wondered the same thing! Anyone know if it is still there?

Doesn't look like it is helping much if it is.:eyes:

[1776Forever]

11. Oh they moved the camera over and I think you can see it now. Anyone else see it?

It looks so small though. ??

[katmondoo]

3. I am not able to see this

I think the site has been taken down

[1776Forever]

4. Refresh your screen - it came up when I did that. It is up now.

B-)

[blindpig]

5. k&r

Expropriate the bastards.

[Wednesdays]

25. It takes a few seconds before it comes on.

nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. 6 recs?

Old news I guess.

[1776Forever]

9. I hear you - I know it won't be old news to a lot of us for years to come! n/t

[FirstLight]

8. ...and think about perspective

That pipe is 5 feet in diameter!

and it certainly doesn;t look like much action is going on down there... just a pile of junk sitting there...where is the submarines or the robotics?

gah!

I guess all we can hope for is a good size earthquake to make the hole close itself?
poor mother earth :cry:

[1776Forever]

10. Yes, where are they? n/t

[Lorien]

14. Mind boggling, isn't it?

I hear a lot of talk about how much oil is being pumped into the Gulf, but little about how and when it will be stopped!

[rocktivity]

12. For the sake of perspective,

what is the width of that drill hole?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[1776Forever]

13. The drill pipe, from which the oil is rising, is actually a 9" in a 21" pipe per this link:

Gulf Spill May Far Exceed Official Estimates
by Richard Harris - NPR

......Instead, BP prefers to rely on measurements of oil on the sea surface made by the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Those are also contentious. Salvin also says these analyses should not assume that the oil is spewing from the 21-inch pipe, called a riser, shown in the video.

"The drill pipe, from which the oil is rising, is actually a 9-inch pipe that rests within the riser," Slavin said.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126809525

[rocktivity]

15. If the dark stuff is the oil, what is the light stuff?

and are they coming out of two separate pipes?

:shrug:
rocktivity

[1776Forever]

17. NPR article says it is one 9" pipe in a 21" "riser" - I don't know what the white stuff is.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126809525

.....Without even having a sense of scale from the BP video, he correctly deduced that the diameter of the pipe was about 20 inches. And though his calculation is less precise than Wereley's, it is in the same ballpark.

"I would peg it at around 20,000 to 100,000 barrels per day," he said.

Chiang called the current estimate of 5,000 barrels a day "almost certainly incorrect."

Given this flow rate, it seems this is a spill of unprecedented proportions in U.S. waters.

"It would just take a few days, at most a week, for it to exceed the Exxon Valdez's record," Chiang said.

BP disputed these figures.

"We've said all along that there's no way to estimate the flow coming out of the pipe accurately," said Bill Salvin, a BP spokesman.

Instead, BP prefers to rely on measurements of oil on the sea surface made by the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Those are also contentious. Salvin also says these analyses should not assume that the oil is spewing from the 21-inch pipe, called a riser, shown in the video.

"The drill pipe, from which the oil is rising, is actually a 9-inch pipe that rests within the riser," Slavin said.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I get nothing but a black black screen on Firefox and Chrome.

[1776Forever]

18. Try refreshing the screen - that should buffer it up. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. did not work for me, BUT I found link to a You Tube recent cam on the page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo27TA9eegw

[1776Forever]

21. Just found out it is overloaded right now - try later if you want to. n/t

[1776Forever]

20. From Sen. Nelson (FL) site: A live feed from the Gulf is currently overloaded.

http://billnelson.senate.gov/

"A live feed from the Gulf is currently overloaded. Above is new archival footage obtained from BP, labeled "dispersion ops." "

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. "Overloaded"...good news actually.

Hopefully WH is getting the message that enough people DO care.

[1776Forever]

23. Right on! I hope it makes them up the server hits max.

:thumbsup:

[1776Forever]

24. Here is another link - Coast Guard on right now........

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/

[1776Forever]

26. New Link for BP Spill Live Cam:

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html