Gulf Of Mexico: Oil Rig Explosion News And Pictures You May Not Have Seen

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Detailed account of what happened and how the disaster developed. Includes some amazing pictures.

 

Link 1: The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene photos | Watts Up With That?

 

Link 2: NASA Satellite Tracking the Gulf Oil Spill | Watts Up With That?

 

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/deepwater_horizon9.jpg?w=640&h=426

 

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/deepwater_horizon13.jpg?w=640&h=853

 

Source: WattsUpWiththat.com

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Link to video: NASA Satellites' View of Gulf Oil Spill Over Time

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Ocean Intervention 1: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:44287.asx?bkup=44668 - N/A

Ocean Intervention 2: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:44838.asx?bkup=45135 - Good

Ocean Intervention 3: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:31499.asx?bkup=31500 - N/A

Viking 1: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:46566.asx?bkup=54013 - N/A

Viking 2: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:55030.asx?bkup=56646 - N/A

Boa: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:22458.asx?bkup=23729 - N/A

Skandi 1: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:45685.asx?bkup=49182 - Dispersant Ops

Skandi 2: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:45683.asx?bkup=45684 - Ok

Enterprise 1: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:47175.asx?bkup=21144 - Ok

Enterprise 2: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:21145.asx?bkup=21327 - Ok

Q4000 1: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:37235.asx?bkup=37270 - Ok

Q4000 2: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:35523.asx?bkup=35624 - N/A

 

Taken from some other forums, may need to open the links in VLC

[Jackd]

Don't know if this has already been posted, couldn't see anything.

 

IfItWasMyHome.com - Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

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Google Crisis Response.

 

Google integrates information from several sources into one page.

 

Sources include: Satellite and radar imagery, NOAA's observations and forecasts and Youtube videos of the spill. Information merged and made available in Google Maps.

 

Link: Google Crisis Response - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

 

http://imgur.com/72BYQ.jpg

[Guest theeldergeek]

BP = Broken Pipe. I wonder if the company will be quietly 're-branded' after this fiasco is done with?