The weather is looking favorable for the time being.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100627/...gulf_oil_spill

The weather isn't going to hold and BP is delaying their efforts to stop the leak. :-?


http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6628050n

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...;videoMetaInfo

Probably a prudent thing to do until the weather calms down. The last thing we need is another accident.

Yeah, I'm not bashing their decision. I was just hoping the storm would go a different direction. So it goes. :)

I've been through that area in a tropical storm in a 40'-0" sailboat. It felt like we were in a freakin dinghy. Waves looked as high as our mast (about 55'). Very exciting and not for the faint of heart.

Its all you can do to maintain weather helm. I can just imagine trying to maintain a station in that weather.

More BP tomfoolery. Covering up the oil on the beaches with dumped sand.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e0_1278059794

Oil Spill Reaches Florida's White Sandy Beaches

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=514_1278119396

Actually, he said the tar layer was like asphalt.

If that is the case, it sounds like covering it is a good idea. It entraps the oil in a sheet of hard material. Later, you could pick it up with a front-loader if you need to, and dump through a screen, collecting the chunks.

No idea if it was intentional or not, but it might be worth looking into, they'll have to think outside the box at some point, that's for sure.

Looks a little suspect to me. Has anyone seen BP trucking in sand to this area?

It raises some questions

1. Why would BP do this? What do they hope to accomplish by all this expense and logistics? It makes no sense. If they were "successful" their public relations are still in the crapper, if they were discovered, they have much more to lose than they could possibly gain. It does not make sense.

2. Where is this sand coming from? Do we have any reports of BP taking sand from some other beach and trucking it in? There should be a big hole in some beach somewhere.

3. How many truck loads of sand would be necessary to cover this beach? Has anyone seen a convoy of trucks hauling that much sand. I would opine that it would take a lot of trucks and a lot of time.

I remember supporting the 81's Airborne Combat Engineers when they had to raise one of our bombing targets (1 mile diameter) three feet. It took them almost a month and a crap load of equipment. I just don't think BP could clandestinely do this supposed cover up.

4. Has anyone seen BP dumping and spreading the sand on this beach?

In looking at that video, it seems that they are selecting a hypothesis and trying to prove it (without too much evidence).

Are we sure this "covering" is not a natural result of the surges from the tropical storm/hurricane? Evidently is a geologist who claims that this is a natural occurrence.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20100703/.../1039/NEWS0601

This is the risk of having amateurs try to pretend to be investigative reporters, I guess.

I am not exactly a fan of BP, but I don't think we need to make up stuff to hate them. I would like to see a little more evidence before I can agree that BP is trucking in sand :nope:

Jimmy Buffett "It's Bush's fault"...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...emost-mission/

Sigh Jimmy go back to wasting away you were more fun then. ;)

By the way all this talk of BP trying to 'cover up' or lessen the appearance is all over the socalist block shortwave broadcasts. There obssesed with it it seems.

You ctrl-v'ed the wrong link, SW. That's the NASA one again.

Now they're getting involved with the oil spill too? :nope:

Durh....

http://www.theboot.com/2010/07/01/ji...hores-alabama/

I think I might need to go waste away a while myself. :haha: