TPM Has Some Astonishing New Pics Of The BP Oil Rig Explosion....

[BlooInBloo]

Yikes. :(

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2010/05/fire-in-the-gulf-new-pictures-of-the-deepwater-horizon.php?img=1

[AngryAmish]

1. wow

That is out of the movies.

[BlooInBloo]

4. omg - that's EXACTLY what I thought!

Freaky.

[Blue Owl]

2. The oil platform represents our future

:cry:

[Touchdown]

10. Well as they say... The Future ain't what it used to be!

:D

[The Straight Story]

3. It almost looks too big to fail (nt)

[Liberal In Texas]

6. That's almost the same thing they said about the Titanic. n/t

[FSogol]

5. Photos 1 and 4 look like something out of a sci-fi film. n/t

[babylonsister]

7. Wow, astonishing is right. nt

[DJ13]

8. Im wondering if it wouldnt have been better to let it remain burning

The rush of oil would have remained burning instead of spreading out.

[Statistical]

11. I think they sadly though the BOP had triggered.

Thus the oil flow was cut off. Turns out the BOP didn't close valves and the water in firefighting ended up sink the rig.

Lack of complete information made the situation worse. This is evident by Coast Guard & BP statement on first day that no oil was leaking.


That makes me think of another missing backup. The BOP sending a fault signal via acoustics to boats on the surface warning them the oil flow hadn't been cutoff. There are so many potential safeguards that are simply not in place. The govt needs to mandate more backups. Companies aren't going to go out of there way to make things safer.

[Tumbulu]

12. Yes, I was wondering that myself (nt)

[YOY]

9. Well at least Michael Bay is enjoying this...

Cause I am not.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. That is some water cannon in #6 and #7.

shooting at least a couple hundred yards.

[Arctic Dave]

14. When I was in the navy I saw the M/V Surf City oil tanker burn for two weeks.

That seems like a camp fire compared to this.

[Winterblues]

15. There was no Natural Gas being pumped so I wonder what caused the explosion?

Crude Oil isn't all that easy to make explode. It burns okay but I would think there would need something a bit more explosive involved..Something just is not right about this whole deal..

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Apparently, there was a huge venting of methane (nat gas).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8266402&mesg_id=8266402

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8267452&mesg_id=8267452 (last para)

[Caretha]

18. Huge amounts of natural gas

are in this reservoir....try 170,000 psi presure. An eruption waiting to happen.

[stevedeshazer]

17. These are iconic photographs that remind me of the Hindenburg disaster

Only much worse.

:(

[Mojeoux]

19. This was like popping a giant zit of oil. They were warned that the pressure

at that depth would be extremely dangerous.


:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[WillyT]

20. One Has To Wonder...

How many tons of caustics and corrosives were onboard that thing when it sank the the bottom?

Just to add to the butcher's bill...

:shrug:

[yurbud]

21. looks like Pearl Harbor, the movie Independence Day, and the last two Iraq Wars rolled into one