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Sun May-30-10 12:21 PM
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Lots of BP ROV activity going on right now... |
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Sun May-30-10 12:24 PM
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Sun May-30-10 12:33 PM
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I tried several times earlier today to find a working feed and couldn't get anything. It's working now and it looks like something interesting is happening.
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Sun May-30-10 12:37 PM
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3. Any chance they're trying to stuff that weasel CEO into the hole? |
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Sun May-30-10 12:38 PM
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Sun May-30-10 12:39 PM
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5. Are they trying to lower that big plug into it? |
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Or is that part of the drill. I don't get what's happening.
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Sun May-30-10 12:54 PM
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For a while it looked like the robotic hands were just tugging at different cables and things without actually doing anything.
Now we're seeing what looks like some kind of weight on a chain. I suspect they're not actually doing anything at the moment and that what we're currently seeing is just where the camera happens to be pointing.
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Sun May-30-10 12:55 PM
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7. Seems obvious to me. They are recovering buoyancy modules. |
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That's what it says along the bottom, too.
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Sun May-30-10 01:09 PM
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I found that caption a little hard to read but that is what it says.
When they were tugging and probing they were probably checking that things were connected properly and the connections were tight, etc.
At the moment there doesn't appear to be anything within view of the ROV camera, but they may be in the process of raising the modules.
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Sun May-30-10 01:08 PM
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8. I see plankton. And blackness. |
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Sun May-30-10 01:12 PM
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10. How do they keep the oil off the camera lens? |
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