So the break is below the sea floor?

On the sea floor. They are going to top it for now and stop 70 to 85 percent why the new rig comes in to hook up to a new line the are drilling to tap in. It will be fixed soon.
Shit happens if you dont like the mess quite useng oil or DONT BITCH !!!!!!. There is consequenses to everything in life this is no different!!!!!!!

I don't see much bitching going on in here but OK.

With that said, people have every right to be upset over a disaster of this scale that was caused by the neglegence of Transocean and BP. I have no beef with the drilling but I do have a beef with people neglecting to follow proper procedures causing something like this to happen. Let's not forget that 11 people died in this accident. I'm sure their families couldn't give a crap about the oil right now but have every right to bitch about the neglegence that killed their family members. This is not all about oil.

No not here. The people on the news Who consume the oil and waste it as they do without even a blink of an eye. The family of the people who died have my condolunces. I did not say anything about them they are the only ones who have a right to bitch!!!!!! As for anyone else who uses oil , They can't bitch. Everyone knew this was going to happen sooner or later when your trying to rob Mother Earth!!!!!!!!!

What we know now.
The dome is a no go. Methane gas is icing the recovery box making it buoyant and clogged the riser pipe

The cause of the explosion was the lose of the primary seal at the bottom of the well, Placed by our friends at Halliburton .

Today the first tar ball began to wash up on Dauphin Island, three miles off the Alabama mainland at the mouth of Mobile Bay.

I am going back to site of the primary spill Monday to pull water samples at 25' intervals from 0" to300" so we can get some idea about what the affects of the dispersant that are being used has on the wildlife.

Rick

This was inevitable, you can't have that many oil rigs running in the worlds oceans and expect that something like this would never happen at all. It sucks that the wild life will be effected by this and take years to recover.

This gets more like a circus every day
St. Petersburg is now the Unified Command for Central Florida
Coast Guard Capt. Tim Close, Commander, Sector St. Petersburg, Fla., Rickey Brown, State On-Scene Coordinator, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and Keith Seilhan, BP Incident Commander, St. Petersburg.
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute at 100 Eighth Avenue S.E., in St. Petersburg Fl.

At least I can be near my home.

Rick

hows the spill so far, hit shore anywhere?
dauphin island is still clear, there was oil sheens one day i think but, nothing serious.
days there have been beautiful, clear water, warm weather, sunny.

They're getting some tar balls at Dauphin Island and at Gulfshores Al Nothing really bad


Rick

ok, aslong as its not serious

Yes and I a sorry for the off handed response.

Rick

its ok.
The glf will be going through a century or more of clensing of crude oil, plus the gulf stream also means it'll affect other places.

Yep what a disaster......