Courtesy of Medaite:
Stefanovic: I am never going back into the water.
Wilkinson: Me neither. No way.
Stefanovic: That’s it. That’s the biggest thing I’ve ever seen.
Wilkinson: Stuff summer.
Stefanovic: No, let’s go to the local pool… Look at the size of that thing!
Holy shitballs that thing is huge!
I have never been to Australia, but I did live in Hawaii for a year while going to college.
My favorite pastime was snorkeling which I did every chance I could get.
But the thing was that every time I saw a school of fish I heard this in my head "Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun BOM BOM dun dun dun dun dun dun doo dedoo doo dedoo dede doo dede doo dededoo."(For those who don't read music.)
And that freaked me out so much that I would start to panic a little and invariably it sent me swimming back toward shore convinced that at any minute I was going to feel one of my legs get ripped right off.
If I had seen a shark like the one in the video, I would never have even washed my hands in the sink again.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2015
Monday, May 17, 2010
BP uses dispersants to keep oil spill off of the surface, and away from the news cameras, but now it is under the surface and virtually impossible to reach. BP has now taken a huge problem and made it much, much worse.
From MSNBC:
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”
Dr. Joye said the oxygen had already dropped 30 percent near some of the plumes in the month that the broken oil well had been flowing. “If you keep those kinds of rates up, you could draw the oxygen down to very low levels that are dangerous to animals in a couple of months,” she said Saturday. “That is alarming.”
The plumes were discovered by scientists from several universities working aboard the research vessel Pelican, which sailed from Cocodrie, La., on May 3 and appears to be the first scientific expedition to gather extensive samples and information about the disaster in the gulf.
Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. But the government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day.
So did you get that? These scientists are calculating that the amount of oil gushing from the broken pipe is between five to eighteen times the amount that the government is calculating because the government is tracking it using satellite images which can only see the surface oil. But BP used dispersants to sink the oil out of sight of the satellite so that it cannot be seen as easily and they can then lie about how much is gushing into the gulf.
Assholes!
And it looks like they are doing this right under the noses of the EPA.
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column.”
Dr. Joye said the oxygen had already dropped 30 percent near some of the plumes in the month that the broken oil well had been flowing. “If you keep those kinds of rates up, you could draw the oxygen down to very low levels that are dangerous to animals in a couple of months,” she said Saturday. “That is alarming.”
The plumes were discovered by scientists from several universities working aboard the research vessel Pelican, which sailed from Cocodrie, La., on May 3 and appears to be the first scientific expedition to gather extensive samples and information about the disaster in the gulf.
Scientists studying video of the gushing oil well have tentatively calculated that it could be flowing at a rate of 25,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil a day. But the government, working from satellite images of the ocean surface, has calculated a flow rate of only 5,000 barrels a day.
So did you get that? These scientists are calculating that the amount of oil gushing from the broken pipe is between five to eighteen times the amount that the government is calculating because the government is tracking it using satellite images which can only see the surface oil. But BP used dispersants to sink the oil out of sight of the satellite so that it cannot be seen as easily and they can then lie about how much is gushing into the gulf.
Assholes!
And it looks like they are doing this right under the noses of the EPA.
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