BP video feed of the oil leak just changed to a new view...

[brooklynite]

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

anyone know what we're looking at?

[Webster Green]

1. Looking for leaks at the BOP.

I think.

[HughMoran]

5. I'd guess that too. Look like very high pressure caps there

they are seeing if massive pressure is being held by these caps.

[slackmaster]

2. Looks very mechanical

Maybe a couple of pressure regulators on a heavy duty gadgety-looking thingamabob.

[brooklynite]

4. Are you sure?

Looks like a doohickey to me...

[slackmaster]

15. It has a tinge of doohickiness, but I'm pretty sure it's really a thingamabob

Nobody would paint a doohickey that color.

[MgtPA]

18. BP's nuts.

[readmoreoften]

17. There clearly needs to be more widgets on that there jim-jam.

:scared:

[SidDithers]

They look like giant robot breasts...

Sid

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Bender is turned on.

[The Straight Story]

12. To which he replies:

[DJ13]

8. ?

[tammywammy]

19. Heh n/t

[kirby]

3. The Blowout Preventor

Kinda looks like an underwater/dirty closeup of this:

[Subdivisions]

6. Yep. That thing is like 45 ft tall. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

16. That's a smaller version, but yes more or less.

I think the one in question is 5 stories tall with more rams and valves.

[DURHAM D]

21. I believe they sometimes call this the Christmas Tree. nt

[kirby]

24. All we got this year was Coal n/t

[slackmaster]

29. I just bought a 10-pound sack of anthracite coal on eBay

Got my Christmas shopping done early!

[Duer 157099]

9. I think we were just suckered

Showing us some innocuous part of the rig to keep attention off the gusher?

WTF assholes!

[Duer 157099]

11. Good. They read my post. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

10. Anyone notice the center plug on the rigth one move inward, inside it, about 30 sec ago?

?

PB

[HughMoran]

22. Yep, left hand one just moved out - it's a valve

So I guess they are opening/closing (or diverting).

[Poll_Blind]

23. Ah, much thanks! Do you know if those are being controlled from above or...

..are automatic in some way?

PB

[HughMoran]

28. beats me, though I would think remote controlled

What good is the thing if you can't divert flow to allow the top kill mud to be injected as needed?

[snooper2]

13. relief valves on top of the BOP

nt

As I type they are now moving around checking rest of BOB, looking at one of the control pods right now

[HughMoran]

14. screen even says "monitor valves on BOP"

[Lucky 13]

20. Here's a different cam with a different view

ANOTHER leaking part of the wreckage...

http://www.livestream.com/oilspill

[Lucky 13]

26. Scratch that folks... it's not live.

Checked the time stamp. It's not live.

[bdamomma]

27. god, look at that crap just destroying the ocean.

[bdamomma]

25. all this technology and they better get this done.