Video: Oil Spill seems to have spread over entire Gulf
Posted by Alexander Higgins - May 6, 2010 at 4:11 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
Loading ...Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen who was named “Local Person of the Year” by Locust Fork News-Journal videotaped the Gulf of Mexico while he flew over the BP oil slick yesterday on a flight provided by SouthWings.
Our local person of the year is Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Tuscaloosa, who deserves the credit for being more of a bona fide environmental activist than all the other fine people working for all the other non-profit organizations in the state.
“The enormity of this slick began to sink in to me,” Wathen says on the video. “It seems as if the thing was spreading out over the entire Gulf of Mexico.”
Watch it here:
There also seems to be an ongoing inconsistency with the reports of the size of the spill. The NOAA Cumulative trajectory map based on satellite images and overflight Data for May 5th is below.
NOAA combined Oil Spill Trajectory and Overflight Information for approximate oil locations from May 1, 2010 to May 5, 2010
Why doesn’t the NOAA Map match their satellite image
NOAA Satellite Image of Gulf Oil Spill
The discrepancies between the Government NOAA Map and the satellite images are huge! The NOAA map shows the slick 50-60 miles away from Mobile, Alabama while the satellite images clearly show the oil approaching the bay.
Just to pre-empt any claims that the obvious oil the satellite images is silt or wind here is a snippet from Mike Di Paola, a Bloomberg reporter who was on the overflight video above from Mobile.
Horrified Pilot Sees Oil Slick Near Gulf Coast: Mike Di Paola
May 5 (Bloomberg) — Oil is still gushing from BP Plc’s leaking rig, 80 miles from the Gulf Coast.
It hasn’t yet touched shore in the Alabama city of Mobile, though some residents say they can smell the fumes of the approaching slick. Coast Guard officials say it’s onshore elsewhere.
Yesterday, Tom Hutchings, a volunteer pilot for Southwings Inc., took me and photographer John Wathen out over Mobile Bay in a four-seater Cessna to have a look. Hutchings flew over the rig last week: foul weather since has kept him on the ground. Southwings uses aviation for conservation causes.
Just eight miles from the Alabama coast we saw the first visible signs of the oil — a thin glistening sheen.
The slick tapered into fingerlike tentacles reaching — and truly heading — northeast toward the coast. We hear it’s predicted to make landfall within 72 hours.
“The magnitude of it is so much bigger today than it was a week ago,” Hutchings said. “It’s mind-boggling. That sheen was well offshore last week and now it’s basically onshore. You’re sitting and waiting for it now.”
Some of the islands are already circled by thousands of feet of orange boom lines, much of them anchored in a desperate defense against the coming oil filth.
Farther out, 30 miles or so (about halfway to the rig), the sheen has thickened into clumps of reddish-brown froth, dotting the ocean’s surface as far we can see. We ran into thick clouds and had to turn back well before we reached the rig. What we saw from this distance was bad enough.
(Mike Di Paola writes about preservation and the environment for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
Where is the disconnect between what is actually in the Gulf and what the Government agencies are reporting?
One final note. In a re another note, BP upped the amount of the worse case scenario and is now saying the leak rate is would be 60,000 barrels and we are more than likely dealing with 40,000 barrels if the leak gets any worse.
—- !!!! Update !!!!! —-
Apparently, a reader of my blog submitted this post to NPR and asked if they could verify or come up with an estimate on the amount of oil.
Low and below, NPR has confirmed through scientific analysis that 70,000 barrels of oil are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every days.
That is equal to one Exxon-Valdez oil spill leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every 4 days.
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When the Gulf Stream grabs the oil, where will it be deposited at it's terminus? How long to transit the Atlantic? Or will it all sink?
Hurricane season starts June 1st.
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No dates given on when, but this post http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/05/20/bp-siphon-capturing-5000-barrels-oil-day/ has a link to a discovery news article that say the spill entering the gulf stream guarantees that oil will wash up in Ireland.
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