Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Preparations for Top kill and Live Video Analysis

by yuriwho

For those actually interested in the details and trying to make sense of the images/video from the live feed this diary can be a place to discuss them. First, here's BP's technical briefing from yesterday describing the various things they are considering trying. (I STRONGLY RECOMMEND WATCHING THIS!) Starting on Saturday, people viewing the live feed noticed that there were some strange events happening at the main leak pipe typically shown in the live feeds from the video. A blog post by some guy named monkeyfister claimed these were sub-sea blowouts. After further reading & analysis it appears these were the first tests of the planned top kill operation. Live Video Links: http://www.bp.com/... http://www.cnn.com/ (look for Live: underwater view of leak in the left column)

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