Friday, May 28, 2010

Junk shot/explosion images for the record...

Screen grabs from either the junk shot or unplanned rupture (or both). These are in sequence, from roughly 8:30 ET this morning. Update: It appears, at least judging by the timestamp, that the live feed is back to monitoring the mud, and things look much like they did before...(??) Update II: Now the timestamp has been changed back to 7 am, and it appears to be looped from before the explosion....

"There is no light from the surface at one mile deep. All the lights come from ROVs," says Anonymous, no doubt correctly. It's sure as shit dark now, as they appear[ed] to be inspecting the carnage.
















































...since nobody else seems to have noticed(!), and who knows how long the video will be available (probably another few minutes...then at BP's discretion). An hour later almost every media outlet is still reporting on their BS "success" story fed to us (and the President) despite being completely false, yesterday.

Update:
Apparently The Oil Drum (where more knowledgeable folks hang out) noticed this morning as well (though comments are all cautious and speculative).

I've uploaded the video of the occurrence here.

6 comments:

bigcitylib said...

They noticed at the oil drum and I've posted on it. Didn't quite get your anon's point last thread. They burst the riser, unintentionally, but that's not necessarily relevant? Or what?

Matt Christie said...

Yeah, that was a little odd...

Recommend your post. Still no video of the beginning/explosion though?

I'm working on it....

DrFrankLives said...

I think what you are seeing is the ROV backing up and away and panning further up the plume very quickly, so that the jets look bigger (because they are bigger the higher you go).

The junk flowing is from the ROV's wash.

bigcitylib said...

Drfrank,

Possible. But especially towards the end the stuff seems to be moving fairly strongly towards the camera. Unless the camerea moved forward again.

Anonymous said...

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Matt Griffin said...

The first part where it seems like the plume is expanding is just the view moving upward. It looks more like a camera reposition, and at one point the camera pointed at another light source.