Image via WikipediaIn 1969, the oil barge Florida ran aground in Massachusetts, and it released approximately 200 thousand gallons of fuel into Cape Cods’ Buzzards Bay. The spill killed many fish and lobsters, damaged sensitive oyster and clam beds, and devastated the local marshlands. Today, signs of the disaster remain. In particular, fiddler crabs that…
Image via Wikipedia Here’s a suggestion to consider for stopping the Deepwater Horizon leak. If necessary, use a linear shaped charge to cut the leaking pipe more uniformly. Then, use a high pressure pipe stopper such as a hydrostatic test isolation plug, for example, the Curtis Wright Flow Control Company’s GRIPTIGHT TEST PLUG GT-24P120, to…
Ian McDonald of Florida State University has calculated that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill‘s flow is approximately 26,500 barrels per day. Here’s a report from the SkyTruth blog (http://www.skytruth.org/): Deepwater Horizon spill estimates derived from USCG fly-over data (28 April 2010) Figure 1. US Coast Guard map showing size and appearance of oil slick on…