VIDEO: “Oil Confirmed to Be Leaking from Cracks in Sea Floor”

Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010, 9:02 am by GottaLaff
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In the interest of clarification, the blog title is that of the original post.

I received the link to this video last night just as I was getting off line, so it is the first one I am posting this morning. The headline is one of the most disturbing ones I’ve read in some time. A worst-case scenario may, indeed, become a reality:

On the video, we see oil leaking from the oil floor. What does this mean? It means that the oil pipe in the ocean has burst and now the oil is leaking from the seafloor. Simply put, there’s probably no realistic way we can stop this.

There are simply no words left…

Here are a few details:

This video was recorded from the Viking Poseidon — ROV 1 on June 13th, 2010 at 2:58 AM EST.

Location of the sea floor crack leaking:
N:10431633.05
E: 1202852.27

My calculations indicate:

The ROV is 19.11 feet north and 55.75 feet west of the leak point.
The ROV is 58.93 feet away from the leak point.

Happy Thursday.

UPDATE: Here it is in slo-mo:

More here (H/t: Avivao)

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  • oilyface

    Oil from the Valdez was already refined. This is crude. Chemicals added to processed oil will make it more harmful.

  • Pblindguy

    yo bud, ya “It didn't happen” is an easy respone for you…. your probably a cold hearted sociopath! Think of “It didn't happen to all the wild life” or does that matter… probably not for an over privilaged idiot like you!

  • Xi Chin

    Something I would like to say is that I do fully support the people affected by the spill in the Gulf region (and possibly beyond) and they should recieve full compensation from not only BP but also from the public purse, because we all benefit from the oil industry and all bear some responsibility for what happened since we are the ones who pressure for corner cutting to drive up the profit margins.

    I am simply saying that whilst this is a big disaster, it is not the end of the world and the environment will recover.

    What do you guys think about Kevin Costner's oil centrifuge machine which can seperate (he claims) oil from water and of which BP has just purchased 32 units? Google “kevin Costner Oil Centrifuge”.

  • Xi Chin

    Because earthquakes were happening before this disaster kiddo. You are the one claiming a connection, prove it. You are claiming a significant increase in earthquake frequency and intensity, but you can't tell us the stats that you use to come th that conclusion. What was the history of frequency and intensity and distribution before? What is it now? Is it significantly different?

    You might be right. but you gotta show us the data.

  • Xi Chin

    I just applied for a restraining order against you. You nutbag.

  • Xi Chin

    I added the creator bit for fun, hence the smile. It is kind of what an oil man might say?

    Look, I am not saying that this is not a huge, massive disaster, it is. It is terrible. But it is not the end of the world. The oceans are not going to die. The environment will recover.

    What caused the disaster in the first place? Well, it was us. We want cheap goods. We want high share prices, large profits for the biggest companies so that our pensions are high. We force the oil industry to cut corners because we demand high profits! Even the greenies are part of that one. They have pensions too.

    But how else can we be? There are billions of people on this planet and without the oil and gas (sorry, but “renewables” do not work, they can never support this much life) billions of them would have to be sacrificed. Anyone on this site volunteering?

  • Xi Chin

    Oh, you are so wise. Get your head out of your ass and see the bigger picture dummy.

  • Xi Chin

    Oil is not like Heroine. For a start it is not illegal. Secondly, it is now known to exist in huge abundance! There is no oil shortage. This is fantastic news for humanity! Once we get the wells dug into the shelf properly we will have ZERO dependence on foreign oil! Hooooooorraaaayyyyy!

  • Xi Chin

    Duh. Like, I know dude! Do you even read my comments before you reply. Africa is an example of a nation whose peoples are starved of resources, dummy. We NEED resources to LIVE! So support the oil and gas industry – because they are what keeps you alive!!!

  • Xi Chin

    Oh Contrare!! My solution is kevin Costner's Oil Centrifuge machine. he will mop up most of the spill. Then once the releif wells are in, the oil will stop leaking. And after that? Well, look forward to more energy than you can shake a stick at cause there be oil down there my biy! Lots of it!

  • Thegowd

    Such a fool….never argue with an ignorant man.

    Everyman

  • Ze_white_wolf

    18 years. Valdez. Still oil. Crabs dead. You ignorant of facts. I am going to follow you around for weeks and post the facts after what you say. I can't stand people like you. You just say something that profound offhand with a big “probably” after accusing others of saying “might” “maybe” “may”. 10 years is how long it took for the public school system to decide to castrate you. Not how long it takes for the oil to biodegrade. That length of time is more on par with the time difference between sexual encounters for you.

  • Ze_white_wolf

    You don't have the stats. SO THAT RAISES ONE QUESTION KID> How do you know there is no connection? Your “no proof of anything” is psychobabble and it works both ways.

  • Ze_white_wolf

    yes I am sure we all need to test the all plumes because there happens to be another gushing gyeser of foreign material close by. What is wrong with you.

  • Ze_white_wolf

    Our situation with oil reminds me of an old fable about a heroin addict. He got a taste, its real good. Real easy to feel good. He got addicted, found alot of it cheap and was in heaven. After awhile though it started to get more expensive, and harder to find, so he went to great lengths to make sure he would be the one to get it. Soon he would do anything to anyone for it and could not live without it….HE NEEDED IT Xi Chin!!! WELL GUESS THE END TO THE FABLE! All of a sudden it cost too much in more than money, it cost him his life, his home, his ocean, his earth AND ALL HIS MONEY. But in the end it didn't matter how much he needed it. Because one day it was gone.

  • Ze_white_wolf

    Somehow your daughters fantasies about godzilla do not seem like a reasonable argument. Once again you are a pea brained fool.

  • http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/ GottaLaff
  • Ze_white_wolf

    And our oil and gas does not go to Africa, seriously are you 13? A few million humans now vs. a disruption in the flow of the ocean currents. a few million, vs a few billion deaths. You are a lowlife who has stubborn and rude opinions that do not help the situation. Go back to posting about south park you propaganda poisoned nutjob.

  • Ze_white_wolf

    Xi Chin, you remind me of a propaganda spewing retard like Rush Limbaugh (hell he might be ol Rush) You are juvinile if you think it will “sort itself out as nature always does” Well I hate to burst your bubble, that is not MAYBE oil in giant plumes. That is FACTUAL oil. And nature doesn't crap in her own oceans. People like you who have complete disregard for reality, and go off spewing rhetorical bs and political jargon are the reason people like ol GW get elected. Go back to your little tea party and leave the real conversing for the grown ups. Since your solution is to wait and watch it fix itself, then you can go back to your life and not worry anymore. In other words SHUT UP, you make yourself look like a child. And the grown ups are talking.

  • http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/ GottaLaff

    Um, actually, Xi, you're wrong. I'll be posting a video about this soon.
    There is no “energy independence”, and as for the Creator… that's your
    belief, not everyone's.

  • Xi Chin

    Care to expand? What have I said that is not true! We need to burn more oil and gas because quality of life is proportional to evergy use. There is loads of oil at extremely high pressure under the shelf. This is fantastic news and we should be jumping for joy. Once we get this current spill under control, we can develop safer drilling technologies and we will have at least 1000 years more oil and gas! Hooray! Isn't that fantastic? We can supply the energy needs of our growing population AND increase quality of life.

    To boot, if the greenies are correct about global warming (they are not!) then the increased CO2 emmissions will result in milder winters, and coupled with the increased CO2 levels (plant food!) we can grow more food to feed our growing population with. It is fantastic. Almost as though The Creator had it all planned :-) !

  • Xi Chin

    You see, this is exactly what I am talking about! Doom and gloom. You greenies cannot help it. I know about all of the stuff that you mention and think that I don't. Let me repeat: The environment WILL recover from this. We DO NEED oil and gas. Without it, many, billions of humans, would DIE!!! Spills WILL happen. But they are not as bad as BILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING!!! Perhaps if you went to africa and see what lack of resources do to people, you MIGHT understand how much we NEED oil and gas!!!

  • skinnydog

    You're out of your goddamn mind.

  • Kimbutgar

    While the Gulf is not on a plate it is near the Caribbean plate and there have been earthquakes in Puerto Rico the last couple of days.

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteq…

  • Sherry

    Well, this “nutbag” KNOWS that the eco-system in the Gulf is more fragile than you thinki it is. This nutbag knows that birds, dophins, endangered sea turtles, even jellyfish, are dying in record numbers. Pelicans will not be raising chicks this year in Louisiana because the estuaries are covered in muck- right along with the peilicans and thier eggs. This nutjob knows that people are already experiencing health problems from breathing the toxic fumes from not only the oil but the dispersant BP chose to use- even knowing it was 4 times MORE toxic than the oil.This nutbag also knows that crops are dying in Mississippi- they were healthy before the spill, but as soon as the winds carrying Corexit reached them, the crops began to die, the trees began to die, even the weeds are dying. This nutbag KNOWS that this oil WILL hit the gulf stream, and end up not only in Florida, but coming around the Everglades- another VERY fragile ecosystem, and all the way up the eastern seaboard. It takes very little oil to make one square mile of ocean unliveable. Sea animals, including fish, are getting as close to the shores as they can in an effort to escape it. Many will be trapped between the oil and the shoreline and die.

    So keep your rosy little opinions to yourself- you have no frikkin clue what you're talking about. Maybe if you actually read about oil toxicity, the toxicity of dispersants, and the fragility of the environment,You MIGHT be able to understand. Maybe if you went down there to Louisiana, and walked a beach, helping rescue some of the oil-soaked birds, seeing dead dolphins laying on the sand covered in oil, you MIGHT develop an inkling of how bad this really is.

    But idiots who sit around thinking that just because the Gulf of Mexico is really big, and gee, it doesn't look like THAT much oil on the surface, so it'll all be ok might do a better service to themselves if they went to Alaska, and looked at the beaches fouled by Exxon EIGHTEEN years ago- beaches where you can still rub oil off the rocks, beaches where the plant life that should be there no longer exists- where tiny crabls that should be crawling around and hiding under those rocks can't be found. Maybe then, idiots, and others like you, MIGHT understnad how truly horrible this BP spill really is. And notice- my only mights were in reference to uneducated cretins like you.

  • Xi Chin

    We COULD theoretically be hit by a massive asteroid the size of the Moon in three months time.

    You COULD get hit by a car tomorrow.

    Isn't the word COULD along with his friends MIGHT and MAY a great little word? It allows us to speculate wildly about anything without any chance of being held to account for what we say.

    You COULD be a prostitute. Hey, I am not saying you are! I'm just saying that you COULD be. Which is true. You COULD be. Get my point.

    I'll tell you what, nutbags. If you can write anything that contains factual information without using the word COULD, SHOULD, MIGHT or MAY, perhaps people would take you more seriously :-)

  • Xi Chin

    ooooh it's so scary. my 6 year old daughter told me that she think Godzilla lives below the ocean floor and he got hit in the head by the pipe and now he is mad with us and he wants revenge.

    Coast to Coast or my Daughter… both sources or equal reliability on the story!!!!

  • Xi Chin

    “Everything about this oil disaster is 'inconclusive' . I just don't let that stop me. “

    Hmmm, sit back, and let that one sink in dude.

  • Xi Chin

    There is no connection and the “increase” is only slight. Do you have the stats?

  • Xi Chin

    Don't worry, you are wrong.

    There is a bit of oil in a bit of water. The oil will decay. Life in that part of the ocean will recover. 10 years from now, you will not be thinking about this.

  • Xi Chin

    All that will happen is a small dip will appear in the sea floor. Would we notice it if we did not look? I doubt it!

  • Xi Chin

    Don't be sorry dude! I am not an idiot. Man's technology is not “battling against the powers of the Earth”. True, we cannot live without the oceans. But the oceans are not going to die because of this spill. You have lost all sense of proportion. As doom and gloom merchants always do.

    No, no, no. It is not “greed and arrogance of stupid men” that drives the oil and gas industry. It is human beings, like you and me, who NEED oil and gas in order to SURVIVE! Without oil and gas we would be dead. How many people could we sustain without oil and gas? Do you want to commit a genocide and take us back to pre industrial population sizes? You are bonkers! We need to use more energy, oil and gas – not less. We need to raise the living standards of the entire planetary population, and to do so requires oil and gas!

    You want to save the world by denying the right to life to billions of humans. That is disgusting. you should be ashamed of yourself. I want to spread human life over the entire universe!!!!!!! I am pro life, you are anti life. You lose, sucker!

  • http://twitter.com/avivao Aviva

    Conclusions may be as simple as testing samples of these brown clouds of “stuff” to determine what they're made of.

    Why not bring samples to the surface for composition testing? Is that not possible? If it IS possible, why hasn't it been done? If testing HAS been done, where are the findings?

  • http://twitter.com/avivao Aviva

    ~Why not simply test samples of these brown clouds of “stuff” to determine what they're made of?

    ~Why not bring samples to the surface for composition testing? Is that not possible? If it IS possible, why hasn't it been done?

    ~If testing HAS been done, where are the findings?

  • http://twitter.com/avivao Aviva

    Doesn't appear that these hydrocarbon clouds are from ROV thrusters kicking up muck, as some contend.

    BP has admitted to cracks in their sub-sea well casing. So, I'd guess these puffs of oil originally escaped from the damaged well, traveled through sea-floor strata, and are emerging from seabed fissures.

    Why not do sampling tests?

    Less likely, these leaking hydrocarbon clouds may even be “reservoir leaks” migrating up through breached sea floor integrity and fractured rock strata–not from the Macondo well.

    Testing. No brainer.

  • Peggy Luhrs

    Sorry you're an idiot who believes men's technology beats the powers of the earth and we cannot live without the oceans and the oceans will die if flooded with this much oil and gas. Sorry that is what is happening due to the greed and arrogance of stupid stupid men.

  • Xi Chin

    This video proves nothing. Look, it is a bad disaster, but we will be okay. It is not the end of the world. A couple of years from now the area will have recovered and life will go on as normal. poeple keep speculating the worse case scenarios: Oh, the sea floor will implode! Oh, the oil will wipe out all life in the gulf! Oh, the oil will kill the world's oceans!

    Well:
    Oh! The cold war will end in a nuclear Holocaust! (didn't happen)
    Oh! Y2K bugs will destroy our computer based civilisation! (didn't happen)
    Oh! Swine Flu, Bird Flu et al. will kill us all! (didn't happen)
    Oh! There will be massive heat waves and droughts due to global warming (didn't happen)
    Oh! There will be an ice age! (didn't happen)
    Oh! There will be fequent terror attacks on western soil (didn't happen)

    eeeeetttttt cetttterrraaaa!

    So, everyone is on a band wagon of doom and gloom. But none of these things ever happen. Of course, one day, something bad will happen. And all of you conspiracy nuts will turn around and say: I told you so! I am so clever! You should listen to me!

    No. You are like a guy who rolls a dice 10 times and each time predicts a 6. When it happens you say: “See I told you so!”, ignoring the fact that your other predictions were useless.

    Just stop it with all the doom and gloom, okay.

    Fact: we need oil.
    Fact: there is loads of it under the shelf.
    Fact: CO2 is good for crops and life on the planet.
    Fact: Milder winters are a great thing for life on the planet. Even Polar Bears thrive in warmer weather.
    Fact: Without drilling for oil under the sea floor, we will be dependent on foreign oil.
    Fact: (almost) looks like there is no energy crisis! So BE HAPPY ABOUT THAT!!!!

    So, support the oil industry. They contribute the most to our quality of life. Do you think you could live without oil? Yes, they need to do things more saftely in the future. But this is not a world endiong catastrophy!

  • catwest

    So, we should crowd source based on opinions of people who may or may not be looking at the same things? I'm looking at the wisps pulsing up from the cracks in the surface. The larger dust cloud could be anything, including the ROV. However, those wisps are originating from subsurface.

    Regardless, BP is doing all they can to limit anyone from knowing the true scope of the damage. I'm sure they want us to ignore this because we don't know for sure what it is.

    Whatever works for y'all. I'm seeing wisps that tells me something beneath the surface is escaping. But that is what I see. I'm not panicking, nor is anyone else. It would not do any good.

    I could even be dead wrong about what it is. Like you, I'm 'guessing'. But I'd rather be wrong, than to be surprised that guess what? It's a subsurface leak.

    Those arguing against viewing and guessing the video might also be more comfortable and grateful to BP for saying it was only 1,000 bbls per day leaking and the effect would be 'modest'. Personally, I'm more comfortable with the truth and knowing what we are up against. For me, I want to know. But, that's just me, and I'm just 'guessing'.

    BTW: Everything about this oil disaster is 'inconclusive' . I just don't let that stop me.

  • catwest

    Fluid Hammer is where there is a sudden change in flow through a pipeline. An explosion such as happened at this well head is an example of a cause of Fluid Hammer. Fluid hammer affects the entire line. Even if it is over 100 miles long. Fluid hammer creates weak spots, separates flanges, and can rupture the pipe line itself in several places. It doesn't matter how far from the well head these alleged “Leaks” are. If they are in the line of the well's lines, chances are, it is indicating a more serious and likely problem. Search “Fluid Hammer Damage” and “Water Hammer Damage” Here is some info. Much more is available: http://www.omega.ca/techref/waterhammer.html

  • Marnie

    I don't believe that the drilling is an area of tectonic plate movement, subsidence, uplift or anything of that sort.

  • Marnie

    There are 5000 feet of water pressing doen on the layers that cover the lay in which the oil is collected.

    Nobody know what happens when the internal reisistance of the oil is removed and its upward resistance against the combined weight of the over laying strata and the massive weigh of a 5000 foot high column of water will be.

    When underground water is pumped from underground reservoirs, sink holed do sometimes happen. Remember when an entire small lake in Louisiana collapsed into a cavern that had once been an underground aquafer? It had been pumped out and oops.

    Anybody know why that can't happen in deep ocean?

  • Darcy_M

    28.57.20.00N 88.07.21W Exact reading of the oil slick lon and lat

  • Darcy_M

    Note: N:10 and E:12 for lat and lon is no where near the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf wells are N27 and W92 approximates

  • http://twitter.com/KenInCO Ken Johnson

    This video is inconclusive. It was posted in a diary on the DailyKos rec list on Monday. The majority of those commenting seemed to think that it is just sediment being kicked up by the ROV thrusters.

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/14/102…

  • lillibird

    I heard some guest on Coast to Coast the other night say this could end up being an under water Mt. Saint Helens…he said the area around the well is cracking and a dome is forming..if it happens there will be an eruption and a tsunami that would effect the coast but mostly Florida….. .sounded pretty darn scary.

  • Say NO to Palin in Politics

    Man oh man what have we done. This is the closest we've ever come to killing our environment, nature and ourselves. This may be the end of many things, in a big way. I've suspected it was going to be so bad and that is why they've tried to subdue media which will produce mass hysteria and panic. With all the martial law militia freaks out there chompin at the bit can you imagine how that would make it worse?

    I really hope I am wrong.

  • kimbutgar

    And there have an increase in earthquakes in the northern hemisphere the last couple of days. Wonder if there is a connection?

  • http://twitter.com/LNAB73 Linda Wade

    it could mean something even worse… they have fractured the rock bed ….

    the relief well though COULD theoretically hit the pipe under the break. THAT would be good news. But IF they fractured the rock bed in all their ineptitudes of drilling and trying to plug this hole… I don't know if there is a fix. I have suspected that we would eventually see this. I think BP & the gov't have known about this for some time. They are only now letting it out.

  • http://twitter.com/KenInCO Ken Johnson

    This video is far from conclusive. It made the DailyKos rec list the other day. I think the consensus opinion is that this shows sediment being stirred up by the thrusters of the ROV.
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/14/875780/-Retraction:-Inconclusive-EvidenceVideo:-Wellhead-has-FailedSea-Floor-Leaking