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Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #210 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe

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You are in the current BP disaster ROV, number 210. Number 209 is here.

Please DO NOT Rec this diary, rather REC THE MOTHERSHIP instead. She needs your love to stay afloat.

Please be kind to kossacks with bandwidth issues. Please do not post images or videos. Again, many thanks for this.

PLEASE visit Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier's Diaries to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!

For a description of the mothership/ROV liveblogging process, check out this thread.

Must read: Lax Oversight Seen in Failure of Oil Rig's Last Line of Defense.  Watch video and interactive graphic page, too.   Best overview of how the BOP works, and doesn't work, and the management interference that caused the accident.

Deepwater Horizon BP Oil Spill Reference Material - from Whitis is the best source for everything.. The quantitative data diary has also been moved there.

Jeff Masters of Weather Underground posted his take on the effects of a hurricane passing through the Gulf and making landfall.

Please DO NOT Rec this diary, Rec the Mothership here.

BP put up a video explaining the LMRP procedure and the future plans.

Go to the Deepwater Horizon Data Summary for a wealth of actual data from the Department of Energy.

The BOP and pressure drawings are viewable here.  The CAD drawings come highly recommended by the techies among us.  h/t Claudius Bombarnac.

This is what BP DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE. The following images are guaranteed to make you SICK AT HEART. These images are not for the faint of heart - DO NOT VIEW THEM LIGHTLY.

Really, I mean it. Hold somebody's hand. Grab a tissue.

A brief reference guide to nicknames you may see in the ROV diaries:

  • Gertrude, aka Gerty:  the oil volcano
  • Lizzy:  the diamond saw cutter
  • Clampy:  the cute ROV
  • Crunchy:  30 ft shear. bit the pipe, now a movie star
  • Wanda: the dispersant sprayer
  • laundry basket:  yellow thing that brings things up and down
  • Thingy: those things, you know, those things
  • Shiny Thing: those really neat things
  • Ms. Blanche Flo, aka Blanche, aka Flo: the manifold thingy

Thanks to dov12348 for publishing a diary on Oil Terminology.

Here is a tutorial on the sources of pressure on the well H/t to Pluto for finding this: The official casing configuration under the wellhead.

The initial approach above will be followed by open hole and drill pipe magnetic ranging. After they get within 5 feet of the blown out well's lower casing they will ream, case and cement the relief well prior to reaming through the blown well's casing. (Photos from The Oil Drum)

Audio, a slide presentation, and a transcript from Kent Wells' 6-28 briefing is available.

The video feeds we are watching: ==== ROV Feeds ===== 44287/44668 - OceanInterventionROV144838/45135 - OceanInterventionROV246566/54013 - Viking_Poseidon_ROV155030/56646 - Viking_Poseidon_ROV231499/31500 - Boa_Deep_C_ROV_122458/23729 - Boa_Deep_C_ROV_245685/49182 - Skandi_ROV1 (herc14) 45683/45684 - Skandi_ROV2 (herc6) 47175/21144 - Enterprise_ROV_121145/21327 - Enterprise_ROV_237235/37270 - Q4000_ROV135523/35624 - Q4000_ROV241434/41436 - Oly_ROV1 (Olympic Challenger's ROV1) 40788/40789 - Oly_ROV2 (Olympic Challenger's ROV2) 24951/24975 - Inspire_ROV1 (Discovery Inspiration's ROV1) 30948/35246 - Hos_ROV1 (HOS Adventure ROV1) 35461/36301 - Hos_ROV2 (HOS Adventure ROV2)

Possibly outdated or redundant links (from The Oil Drum): 46245 - BP "Official" #1 (primary)46260 - BP "Official" #2 (secondary) 46661 - BP mystery feed #1 46663 - BP mystery feed #2

Restricted to web browser based viewing: CNN Video Streams Note: multi-view is sometimes unavailable. PBS (fewer security issues than some others) BP videos Links to all available live feeds from BP. WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola (Contains link for an iPhone app at the bottom.) ABC 7 Chicago Live Video Multiple ROV Camera Views (h/t to temptxan for the great find).

Multiple stream feeds (hard on browser/bandwidth): The best multi-view feed Be patient as load time may take a bit. Markey's multi-view pageLusty's multi-feed page (originally created by papicek, but a huge improvement made by Lusty, who also kindly hosts it :^) Vote For America's awesome clickable multi-view Courtesy of one of our very own Kossacks. A multi-view Contains feeds from BP, C-SPAN-2, WKRG, and PBS High-def video feeds See this thread for more info on using video feeds and on linking to video feeds.

Again, to keep bandwidth down please do not post images or videos.

Links, courtesy of several Kossacks

16414/1911 Previous liveblog ROV diaries:Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #209 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike

Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #208 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #207 - The End of the Beginning Edition - Petulans Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #206 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #205 - Vigilance > Knowledge > Action Edition - Conchita Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #204 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/peraspera Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #203 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Groucho Marxist Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #202 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Tomtech

Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #201 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/peraspera Gulf Watchers ROV #200 - Party and Community Celebration - Garrett

Previous motherships and ROV's from this extensive live blog effort may be found here.

in the dark time we held vigil, we held vigil against the night, we raged against the storm, we moved with the force of nature to right a great wrong, to howl like the wind, to hold the line, to renew an ancient vow, a sacred purpose, to recall to life the human spirit, to safeguard that which is most holy to us, to forge and reforge, this, above all, to be true, to awaken our greater nature, to commune from the deepest regions of our soul, to heal this realm, to heal our people, to guard all life, to guard life, for this generation, and all to come,

this is why we hold vigil ~  

~ ArthurPoet ~

  We Are Here
  We are here.
  We are watching.
  Years from now,
  if anyone asks,
  we will tell them:
  We were there.
 
  Maybe it will not matter.
  Maybe nothing matters.
  But if we throw up our hands now,
  maybe someday,
  years from now,
  we will ask ourselves,
  why did we not at least keep watch,
  why did we not?
 
  Maybe someday, some of us
  will talk with someone younger,
  and tell of the time we watched.
  Maybe that someone younger
  will try harder next time,
  will do more next time,
  remembering
  the time we watched.
 
  -- bigjacbigjacbigjac

We're all stunned and horrified by this disaster. Huddling with good people to calculate the damage and monitor progress, have a laugh when we can, share the sorrow we feel, and learn a lot in the process... That's what I'm really here for.

This is how I best cope. And if it turns out to be a useful thing to others, then that's great.

Kimberley

This is where you want to be for discussion, worrying, tearing up, and caring for each other.  It's also where you're welcome to be angry and scream and curse and cry and rant at the criminal negligence and greed that have brought us all together.  Most importantly, though, it's where we can learn from those kossaks among us (I'll not name names for abject fear of leaving one of you out, but you know who you are.) who bring the light of knowledge - sometimes with heat, sometimes without it - and teach us about what's happening beneath our Gulf of Mexico.  On a personal note, I'll ask you to please be kind to each other in our little boats.  There's enough hurt going on outside without bringing it here. - khowell

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