Is more gas bubbling from the seabed floor, with increased seabed venting visible to ROV?

[TacticalPeek]

Damn if it don't sound like it at Monkeyfister's:

Major Change Down Below... Live Blogging...

Regular updates will be tacked on to the bottom of this post through the day.

I've been watching the live Spillcam, and discussing it with folks, here. about 5pm last night, we all started taking note of gas bubbling out of the seabed floor. It started earlier than that, actually-- see pic a few posts down. About 1am this morning, the eruptions began to increase in spew volume. At about 8am, CDT, as I watched, things started changing rapidly. Where the water around the two major gush points used to be very clear, it is now super turbid, and detritus is flying everywhere in a chaotic manner. seabed venting is obvious to see when ROV cameras pan around.

Yet to be confirmed rumors are that the casing wall has finally worn through, about 300 feet below seabed, at an annulus (coupling), and the gas and oil are now finding a new way out to the seabed.

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/2010/05/major-change-down-below.html

(And hoping that reality ain't true is getting old for this camper.)

"UPDATE 1:20pm CDT: While watching, ANOTHER major "explosion" occured. ROV Cam now covered in Oil. It was pushed or moved back a few feet by the force of expulsion. Gush seems to have at least doubled in size and volume."

[BeFree]

1. No. Please. No.

Let this be a false tale. Please.

[dipsydoodle]

2. It may never have possible to reseal

overall damage to the methane hydrate layer which may be one causes of the gas bubbles you mention.

Suggest you read this from 1992 including references to seafloor stability. http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html

[zeemike]

5. If that is the case they may not be able to stop it.

Until all the gas has ben expeled....i don't want to think about that.

[kayakjohnny]

3. Worst post I've seen in a year.

No offense you you, TacticalPeek.

What I meant was, worst news I've seen in a year.

[TacticalPeek]

4. Heard dat.

I was thinking it was the worst news I'd seen in a blog comment since 03 when I saw Valerie Plame's ID was being revealed by politicians.

[TacticalPeek]

6. The live feed now is nothing but erupting oil - you can't even see the riser pipe.

Check out that blog link:

"It's black, all you can see is the cable. It started with yet another GUSH plume/tornado.

Oh, dear-- now, we can see that that is a LOT of oil-- and a BLIZZARD of Hydrates..


--mf"

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

oil/hydrate blizzard

[TacticalPeek]

7. Instead of that boring yellow pipe with all the chocolate milk rushing out and a lil whipped cream:

Yecchh.

[TacticalPeek]

8. Now it miraculously is showing the pipes and cleared up water.

That has to be file footage, not live like it says.


At Livestream it shows 'offline' and at WKRG is shows the last frame of the oily black.

http://www.livestream.com/spillcam

http://www.livestream.com/wkrg_oil_spill

[TacticalPeek]

9. Morning kick.

Now it's linked at Naked Capitalism, too.

Lookin’ Ugly at the Deepwater Horizon Live Cam?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/05/lookin-ugly-at-the-deepwater-horizon-live-cam.html

[Dappleganger]

10. It is a fucking volcano

We should never be screwing around with those kind of unknown forces.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

11. How many disasters do we have to have before recognizing that

these companies don't know what they are dealing with and don't have adequate response mechanisms when things go horribly wrong.
There is STILL a mud volcano going on in Indonesia for 4 YEARS!!

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61B0Z920100212
New study links drilling to Indonesia mud volcano
Sunanda Creagh

JAKARTA
Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:33am EST

Reuters) - A team of scientists said in a report on Friday that they had found the strongest evidence yet linking a devastating mud volcano in Indonesia to drilling at a gas exploration well by local energy firm PT Lapindo Brantas.
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Methyl (Methane) spewing uncontrollably? Greenhouse gas volcano? Who knows what this could do to the climate/atmosphere? Maybe all those fundies are right and we live in End Times due to the simple Republican/Libertarian values of greed and disdain for regulations if they inhibit profit. Nominations for scapegoat if this becomes THE extinction event? Reagan? Cheney? Bush? Obama?

Who paved the way for this to happen and who could have stopped it?