Collapse of the Deep Water Horizon

joedamadman · 29 days

More photos of it burning. They are pretty epic.

chaddercheese · 29 days

This is comforting to see, considering I'm on her sister rig at this very moment.

Google_vs_Bing · 29 days

I was there that day taking photos from the MSNBC Helicopter. What a horrible sight. Here are some of the photos I got.

sci_lit · 29 days

Michael Bay is really stepping up his game

MrMadcap · 29 days

11 lives were lost that day...

TheNev · 29 days

Funny story... The professional oil rig firefighters (private industry) were not called out. They were consulted. They pleaded with the coast guard to not douse the thing with water because they were going to sink it. They said to use foam.

But since no private agency tells the government what to do (without huge sums of money being donated, that is), the government sank it and actually compounded the problem.

BP_Claims · 29 days

I am the Director of BP Claims for a major law firm. Would anyone be interested in an AMA? (Throw away account)

ZOIVII3IE · 29 days

My first thought was they blew up the set of WaterWorld. My second thought was that this is a really terrifying photo.

ievokenerdrage · 29 days

The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness<strike> of Khazad-dum</strike> ... shadow and flame.

randazza · 29 days

That's fucking awesome. The result, not so much.

Poppaukko · 29 days

It's going to be the Deeper Water Horizon.

RayTown · 29 days

The Ocean deserves better than this..

thedotandtheline · 29 days

Off camera, Michael Bay masturbates furiously.

westsidemonster · 29 days

Can't be real, must be a sneak peek from Just Cause 3.

xMantaRay · 29 days

Dont worry, in a few years this'll turn into Rivet City.

darkwhiskey · 29 days

"FUCK SHiT FUCK"

fixthecopier · 29 days

This must be fake because according to all the conspiracy theorist, the flame from fire from burning gas and oil does not get hot enough to melt or weaken steal. [twin towers]

shuxkcds · 29 days

This isn't real. This can't be real. Is this real?

sassi-squatch · 29 days

I remember reading that due to the spilling oil, it was difficult to remain anywhere near it, the oil was fouling the air to such an extent as to make it difficult to breathe.

The photos are incredible. I wonder how awful it sounded as well. Twisting steel only a mile or so away.

ryder77 · 29 days

Dammit Cloverfield! Stop destroying shit!

pixartist · 29 days

Awesome. And horrible at the same time. Poor ocean :(

jong316 · 29 days

lol, is it just me or does spraying water on that seem redundant at this point?

mysockinabox · 29 days

Never forget.

drakenkorin13 · 29 days

Why are they spraying it with water? Seems like the most futile effort of all time. "WE CAN SAVE IT! WE CAN SAVE IT!!!"

fultron · 29 days

This will get buried, but I was just reading about the Piper Alpha rig that burned in the North Sea in 1988.

A pump was switched on without a safety valve, and the resulting explosion and fire killed 167 of the 228 men on board.

Here's video from a firefighting boat during the event. At this point men are still on the rig. In fact months later they recovered the galley section from the ocean floor, inside they found the bodies of 87 men who had taken shelter when they had nowhere else to go.

Another video from the BBC 24hrs after

Found some photos:

Deepwater was a more serious ecological disaster, but one cannot discount the impact of knowing that this rig burned so hot that steel supports melted, with workers still trapped on board or jumping 20 stories to the water below.

turbofucker · 29 days

Fuck it, let's go bowlin.

EvilMonkeySlayer · 29 days

Needs the creepy smiling fire girl in the corner of the picture...

Syrtica · 29 days

MEMORANDUM FOR: All NOAA Employees

FROM: Lois Schiffer NOAA General Counsel

SUBJECT: Reminder: Outstanding Litigation Holds

To All NOAA Employees --

This is one of our regular reminders about your responsibilities with regard to documents subject to litigation holds. I want to remind all NOAA employees and contractors of outstanding requirements to retain documents and other information and evidence (including e-mails and other electronically stored information) related to several cases. Do not delete, destroy, overwrite, or throw away any of this information or evidence related to these matters. Once the litigation hold has been lifted, you should retain the documents in accordance with NOAA’s normal document retention requirements.

The attached table provides the list of active and recently lifted litigation holds for our agency. Please review the list to determine if you have any information or evidence that is subject to a litigation hold. Updated information will be provided to you on a routine basis.

If you have questions about your obligations, please contact the NOAA Office of General Counsel by emailing our litigation hold help desk and adding the litigation hold tracking number related to the specific litigation hold (identified in the attachment to this message) to the subject line.

Thank you for your continuing cooperation.

Lois Schiffer

...

All hard copy and electronic documents and information and tangible things in NOAA’s possession, custody or control that are potentially related to the DEEPWATER HORIZON event, regardless of whether the information was in NOAA’s possession, custody or control before or after April 20, 2010. This includes information you possess if you worked on the NOAA response to the DEEPWATER HORIZON Event in any capacity; OR if your work has ever focused on one or more aspects of the atmosphere, waters, species, or other natural resources in, under, or using the Gulf of Mexico at any time of the year; OR if information in your possession, custody, or control focuses on one or more of the aspects listed above, or might otherwise be relevant to pre-spill conditions. With respect to electronically stored information, it is imperative that such information be maintained and preserved in its “native” format.

Pointless, but relevant. Mostly it bothers me that it's implied that some of the more important information could be destroyed under non-litigious circumstances.

Acoustyk · 29 days

It's a shame we didn't let the Dutch/Norwegian clean up crews in on this mess. They have the most advanced oil-skimming/filtration technology in the world. I remember them interviewing a captain and he said they could filtrate the water and reduce the pollution by ~90% (~10% would re-enter the ocean) if they got to it soon enough. Apparently the Obama administration didn't allow them to do it because pro-Union Jones Act restrictions even though they had the ability to waive it. Instead we just did nothing for three months. Any clarification on this would be nice. I don't claim to be an expert.

malmac · 29 days

I know it isn't the popular opinion, but I see this as a sad failure of our technology. We are after all human beings, possibly the only sentient life in the universe - possibly. Every single one of us has used and depended on the production of oil for our entire lives. Take it away, right now, and every single aspect of modern life, all of it - transportation, medicine, food supply, communications, entertainment, every city great or small, all of it - disappears and we, those who are left, anyway - return to the stone age. There is simply no way to replace it at the present time, and it means far more than just gassing up your car.

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