Published: October 19th, 2012 at 1:14 am ET
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Top oil spill expert Dr. Robert Bea – a UC Berkeley professor and government consultant – told Washington’s Blog:
With the information that has been released, I remain skeptical that they have found ‘the source’ for the continuing leak(s).
The cofferdam has a limited ‘supply’ … which has already been exposed for a very long period of time to the seafloor environment … including several hurricanes. Thus, it is difficult to understand why it would start leaking recently … and continue to leak.
The search needs to be conducted like an archeological dig [using] a close-spaced grid of multiple surveys employing different detection equipment with accurate control of positions of the ‘sensors’.
When I worked for Shell on the Bay Marchand blowouts, we used geophysical ‘sniffer’ equipment to trace the oil in the water column….better than an ROV…..with the survey from the sea floor to the surface [...]
See also: FSU Expert: May be freshly released from Macondo reservoir
Published: October 19th, 2012 at 1:14 am ET
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I;m pretty skeptical too!~
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Hey..hey..the cofferdam..didn't work remember?
They couldn't even set it down…
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BP's Cofferdam Container Failed, How Will They Stop the Gulf Oil Spill Now?
http://www.fastcompany.com/1643133/bps-cofferdam-container-failed-how-will-they-stop-gulf-oil-spill-now
Methane hydrate build-ups sideline BP cofferdam
http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMIX/2010may00081.html
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PS..Coffee..Mr Bea?
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It's obviously a leak under pressure… they need to look futher. The truth will come out, I would think sooner is better than later.
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Where is that smirking Sen. Markey now *pretending* to be on our side? Well? Didn't you see him smirking, smiling, mocking in the video that was "demanding" a look at the ocean floor? If YOU knew you were being videoed about something all of us here (most of us)know to be as serious as it IS/// WOULD YOU BE SMIRKING? Do you honestly think he thought there would be an internet link to an ocean floor exploration of fissures? Did YOU sign the petition to focus federal attention on this? OR have we just slid into the call for international experts…READ world governance. NWO. And NOTHING divulged. No purview. No redress.
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Do NOT believe anything the government says. They are conducting a fear-reduction campaign and dragging their feet regarding the spill. This is a major event developing and they are wayyy behind in doing anything about it much less telling you what is going on.
There is an election in progress remember..
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