Live underwater webcam feed of Gulf Oil Spill video to go up tonight. (Updated)

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British Petroleum (BP) has announced that a live camera feed of the oil pouring out of their broken pipe into the Gulf of Mexico will go live as early as tonight.

BP said they would release the feed and it will be shown on Rep. Markey’s committee website at www.globalwarming.house.gov. The release of the live link to Rep. Markey is expected tonight.

The feed will be posted on the website of US Congressial Representative Ed Markey’s (D-MA) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, after Markey demanded the BP post the live video feed at a hearing held earlier today.

“This may be BP’s footage, but it’s America’s ocean. Now anyone will be able to see the real-time effects the BP spill is having on our ocean,” said Rep. Markey, who conducted a briefing today with independent scientists where he reiterated the call for a video feed. “This footage will aid analysis by independent scientists blocked by BP from coming to see the spill.”

To date, only snippets of footage have been released by BP, prompting criticism by scientists, lawmakers and newsmedia that the company has not providing enough information to determine the size and magnitude of the oil spill.

Earlier today at experts told Rep. Markey’s panel that BP was withholding important information.

According to the expert testimony by Dr. Camilli and others, BP continues to withhold this data making it very difficult for outside expert to know how much oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico everyday.

On the often quoted 5,000 barrel-a-day estimate by BP, expert, Steve Wereley, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, told the hearing that, “The media keeps using the 5,000 barrel a day estimate, but there is scientifically no chance… BP’s estimate is nowhere near correct. It [the spill] is certainly larger.”

Wereley went on to discuss another myth being reported in the media about the leak being impossible to measure. Wereley stated that, “It can’t be measured to plus or minus 2 percent, but our tools can make a good estimate of how much is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.”

Update

The link to the Live video feed camera of the Gulf oil spill has been added to Rep. Markey’s site at http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

UPDATE 2:

You can actually get the direct video feed here using this link mms://video.oceaneering.com/enterpriserov1 (requires windows media player I believe)

UPDATE 3: Servers on the internet are busy. Watch HERE!!

Click Here To Watch BP Live Video Feed Webcam of Gulf Oil Spill!!