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On a related note, I was just remarking to a friend today about how hard this oil spill is to think about without seeing any sort of visual diagrams of the well

by rjett 16y ago

On a related note, I was just remarking to a friend today about how hard this oil spill is to think about without seeing any sort of visual diagrams of the well, what the seafloor looks like, where the relief wells would be drilled, etc. These sort of visual aids have been conspicuously absent in mostly everything I've seen about this catastrophe.

seldo 16y ago
The BBC has a fairly good diagram of what's going on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651333.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651333.stm A visualization of how big the spill is relative to others: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10198201.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10198201.stm
blantonl 16y ago
Believe it or not, the BBC has some of the best graphical representations of what has been happening over the past 40 days. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8651333.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8651333.stm As a past resident of Louisiana (attended LSU and lived in New Orleans for 3 years) I can tell you that this catastrophe will economically be on-par with Hurricane Katrina. Many of us have no idea how important (and awesome!) our seafood industry is. Our best shrimp, crabs, and oysters all directly come from the area that this spill is impacting. All I can say is, this sucks. With that said, reading the article leads me to believe that a good majority of reporters and people being turned away have been done so in good faith or simple mistakes. Let's not be mistaken - reporters can crowd an area and cause serious safety concerns for people who are working to contain the spill. And they can also irritate the crap out of workers who are more concerned with getting stuff done than answering lots of questions. Reporters will climb over themselves to get the latest scoop on a hop topic. And this is one. On on the subject of TFR's (Temporary Flight Restrictions) as mentioned in the article - Only the FAA issues TFR's, and those are issued to protect operating aircraft in a specially designated zone from outside interference (read: mostly the media). There was a complete TFR issued for most of south east Louisiana just after Katrina so that air traffic was carefully controlled for rescue operations. This is no different, there is an enormous amount of aircraft that are working in this area and TFR's are common to protect the working aircraft from non-essential related aircraft. I'm sure that BP has their corporate spin-doctors running at full steam, but I'm quite positive that there is no conspiracy to shut down access to the public regarding this tragedy.
SandB0x 16y ago
There are many excellent diagrams here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-topkill-diagram.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-to...
gbhn 16y ago
The congressional testimony has good diagrams, and The Oil Drum has reproduced a lot of them, amidst good discussion. (Of course, other missing information has contributed to the multitude of plausible-sounding theories about what is actually going on.) http://www.theoildrum.com/ http://www.theoildrum.com/

by rjett 16y ago

seldo 16y ago

The BBC has a fairly good diagram of what's going on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651333.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8651333.stm A visualization of how big the spill is relative to others: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10198201.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10198201.stm

blantonl 16y ago

Believe it or not, the BBC has some of the best graphical representations of what has been happening over the past 40 days. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8651333.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8651333.stm As a past resident of Louisiana (attended LSU and lived in New Orleans for 3 years) I can tell you that this catastrophe will economically be on-par with Hurricane Katrina. Many of us have no idea how important (and awesome!) our seafood industry is. Our best shrimp, crabs, and oysters all directly come from the area that this spill is impacting. All I can say is, this sucks. With that said, reading the article leads me to believe that a good majority of reporters and people being turned away have been done so in good faith or simple mistakes. Let's not be mistaken - reporters can crowd an area and cause serious safety concerns for people who are working to contain the spill. And they can also irritate the crap out of workers who are more concerned with getting stuff done than answering lots of questions. Reporters will climb over themselves to get the latest scoop on a hop topic. And this is one. On on the subject of TFR's (Temporary Flight Restrictions) as mentioned in the article - Only the FAA issues TFR's, and those are issued to protect operating aircraft in a specially designated zone from outside interference (read: mostly the media). There was a complete TFR issued for most of south east Louisiana just after Katrina so that air traffic was carefully controlled for rescue operations. This is no different, there is an enormous amount of aircraft that are working in this area and TFR's are common to protect the working aircraft from non-essential related aircraft. I'm sure that BP has their corporate spin-doctors running at full steam, but I'm quite positive that there is no conspiracy to shut down access to the public regarding this tragedy.

SandB0x 16y ago

There are many excellent diagrams here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-topkill-diagram.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-to...

gbhn 16y ago

The congressional testimony has good diagrams, and The Oil Drum has reproduced a lot of them, amidst good discussion. (Of course, other missing information has contributed to the multitude of plausible-sounding theories about what is actually going on.) http://www.theoildrum.com/ http://www.theoildrum.com/