Comments for DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill

Comment on Mid-week update. by John

John — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:58:57 +0000

I need some historical data connected with tropical storm Bonnie. Could you recommend any official sources?

Comment on Glider update August 5 2010 by Rickey Bradley

Rickey Bradley — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:31:00 +0000

Thanks alot for the information. You enlightened me on the subject of Spray Gliders.

Comment on Glider data for July 22, 2010 by Jim McCallum

Jim McCallum — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:47:00 +0000

Hi -
This is much better than many of the pages, in terms of providing actual text that can be read by real people. On the other hand, there is no definition of key terms such as “CDOM”. Also, the descriptive text … “continue(d) decrease in the mid-water CDOM”, …”strong zonal current velocities” … “beautiful deepening of the thermocline” … are entrancing but opaque to all but those who are training in reading the images. How about drawing a little arrow or something to let the rest of us know what you are talking about? Thanks for the neat work and imagery. Jim in Silver Spring

Comment on Glider data early evening of July 11 by Ben Wilder

Ben Wilder — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:50:00 +0000

I recently traveled down to the Gulf, and was curious how the oil disaster was affecting pelicans. I was far enough East that there wasn’t any damage yet. However, I got a lot of video footage of pelicans, and put together this video. I’d appreciate very much if you could also help me promote this video from YouTube. Thanks, Ben Wilder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BSBQP82Es

Comment on Bets? by Peter Brickley

Peter Brickley — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:12:01 +0000

The drifter you are showing in the Gulf Stream is paired with a second one that left the Gulf around the same time. The data are available here with hourly updates: http://www.horizonmarine.com/ioos/seacoos.txt and seacoos.png

Comment on How-to stop oil leak – from DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill visitor by mark socoski

mark socoski — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:47:26 +0000

Have you ever held a pingpog ball in suspension using the output of a vacuume cleaner? Once in suspension, the ball remains directly over the center of the out put source. Hence, we would be dealing with roughly 13000 psi. (a very heavy weight) Through the center of the ball would be a pointed pipe, (dead ended, both ends, having a mass, much less than well diamenter,yet hollow in configuration. Once centered in the vortex of the escaping plume, it becomes stable, and will allow depth concentration into the source. An accumulator charged to expand the this casing withing the well casing would stop the source.

Comment on One drifter about to leave the Gulf by matt

matt — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:48:48 +0000

That drifter made an amazing hard left turn……wow

Comment on How-to stop oil leak – from DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill visitor by fred

fred — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:33:08 +0000

I would suggest they get a 12 inch thick steel plate about 2 times the diameter of the existing flange. Drill holes thru this heavy plate in exact same position as the existing flange which needs to have its bolts cut to remove. affix a heavy duty thick gasket with holes that match the newly bored holes in the plate ,to the underside of this new steel peace. Instead of bolts to fasten the new plate as a replacement to the flange they need to use long threaded rids which should be hanging thru the new plate before it is hovered over the existing valve. the rods should be directed thru the hold down holes in the broken valve. now simple tighten the rods slowly similar to tightening the rim of an automobile tire. slowly drawing the new steel plate down. Now if its a concern that the rods might not be of sufficient strength to hold the pressure, a modification to the plate could be to add 50,000 pounds of lead plates to the upper side of the steel plate.
As the steel plate is lowered or drawn down there should be a positive pull upwards on the plate so hold it upwards next to the nuts on the threaded rods .This would prevent the plate from lowering to rapidly and possible damaging the threaded rods. The whole idea of using threaded rods instead of regular bolts is to give plenty of lea way for alignment. the alignment could be started many feet…maybe ten feet above the project. This rod method would also work for installing an open ball valve or any other flanged valve with sufficient capacity to operate once it is in the direct line of the oil flow. I assume there is such a valve in existence? And is readily available… Just use eminent domain and commandeer the valve from the closest drilling project that is on hold. Again I emphasize that a 12 inch steel plate cranked down slowly and evenly should stop the oil fast. I wish I was in change we would a already stopped this disaster.

Comment on How-to stop oil leak – from DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill visitor by Rich Kennan

Rich Kennan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:47:29 +0000

Make a round 2pc butterfly damper minium 1″plate with the appropiate size threaded rod through the center with a welded nut on the end. Attatch an ratchet on the roc, place the damper inside the id of the pipe on the otherside of the flange. Skew it slightly as its being inserted in the pipe. It will wedge its self long enough for the roc to turn the threaded rod with the ratchet. Once the butterfly valve id completly opened to the 21″id the flow will stop.

Comment on Oil Slick Forecast covers entire Loop Current Eddy by Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:22:03 +0000

The solution to the oil spill is to anchor a wide synthetic curtain around the oil leak with concrete blocks and a zipper near the bottom. The curtain would gradually narrow and be attached to a pipe. The pipe would be drained into a tanker. When enough pressure is taken off the curtain, the curtain would be zipped up. Chris Dornor and Allen Chesterfield. cdornor@yahoo.com and allen.chesterfield@gmail.com. Mr. Chesterfield is a qualified deep sea diver and salvage work and a published author of the The Alaskan Kangaroo