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The current ROV DIARY: Gulf Watchers ROV # 157.
Rules of the Road
- We take volunteers for subsequent diaries in the sub diaries or ROV's as we have playfully coined them.
- Please rec this mothership diary, not the ROVs.
- Please be kind to fellow kossacks who may have limited bandwidth and refrain from posting images or videos.
PLEASE visit Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier's diaries to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!
To repeat: please refrain from commenting in this mothership diary - it only serves to point people in the right direction.
Deepwater Horizon BP Oil Spill Reference Material
- from Whitis is the best source for everything.. The quantitative data diary has also been moved there.
Kossak Sillia gives a concise explanation of the mothership and liveblog:
This diary, that is, the mothership, forms the hub from which you can reach the other diaries. Or, think of it as a table of contents in the front page of a book. You use this diary to find a link to the latest discussions. You can also find links here to past discussions (previous diaries) if you wanted to read them.
The actual liveblog diaries (in this case playfully referred to as a 'submersible' or ROV) is where the discussion is--once one of these gets so long that its size is cumbersome, they start a new one. So if you wanted to join in to the most current discussion, you'd click the most recent link. But they leave the links there so that people can still go back and read the older ones if they wish.
The reason for this setup is that it prevents the recommended list from being filled up with many diaries on the same topic. Instead just the mothership will appear on the rec list where everybody can find it, which they can use to navigate to the latest discussion. (That's why we are asked to "rec" the mothership but not the other diaries, just reduces confusion.)
I hope this is sort of what you were wanting to know...
Video Feeds
The best multi-view feed
BP Video Feed
CNN multi camera view
PBS This PBS feed is security compliant.
BP videos - Links to all available live feeds from BP
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola (contains link for an iPhone app at the bottom)
ABC News
A multi-view with feeds from BP, C-SPAN-2, WKRG, and PBS
Vote For America's awesome clickable multi-view
Courtesy of Whitis, here are two additional video links:
Primary feed
Secondary feed
Links, courtesy of several Kossacks
- Summarized tally of affected wildlife
- Visualize the spill
- Nola.com
- h/t dov12348's recommended links
- The Oil Drum
- Oil & Gas Journal
- Offshore Magazine
- Petroleum News
- Your Oil and Gas News
- World Oil
- Administration response to spill.
- Donate to SkyTruth here. SkyTruth helps environmental NGOs use remote sensing (pictures taken from space) and digital mapping to improve their scientific credibility, conservation decisionmaking, communications and public outreach.
- Images of the Oilpacalypse, from Tomtech.
- Visit the Oil Spill Crisis Map to see where oil, mousse, tar balls, and eau de crude have been reported on the Gulf coast.
- The BP Deepwater Horizon Unified Command official website. Wherein you can read latest post warning of employment scams associated with the event and much more from the folks handling this.
- Timeline of response here.
- Timeline of the Event from April 20th being maintained by blogroots.
- Bit Tooth Energy blog (technical discussions) by the famed Heading Out, well known key poster on The Oil Drum blog site.
- Department of Interior BP Deepwater Horizon Response site provides updates, reports, data, links to pictures, etc.
- Rigzone for specific disaster news and news about the offshore industry, in general.
Liveblog diaries
Gulf Watchers ROV #156 - Bubbanomics
Gulf Watchers ROV # 155 - Darryl House
Gulf Watchers ROV # 154 - Hester
Gulf Watchers ROV # 153 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight
Gulf Watchers ROV #152, John Muir Edition - David Kroning II
Gulf Watchers Liveblog ROV 151 - gchaucer2
Gulf Watchers Liveblog ROV 150 - Yasuragi
Gulf Watchers Liveblog ROV 149 - khowell
Gulf Watchers ROV # 148 - BP's GoM Catastrophe Launch - Gulf Watchers Overnight
Gulf Watchers Liveblog - ROV #147 - Garrett
Gulf Watchers ROV # 146 - BP's GoM Catastrophe - gchaucer2
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 145 - politik
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog - ROV #144 - peraspera
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog - ROV #143 - Hands Across the Sand Edition - CindyMax
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog - ROV #142 - David PA
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 141 - peraspera
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 140 - Garrett
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 139 - zaka1
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 138 - Yasuragi
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 137 - David PA
BP's Gulf Disaster: ROV #136 - papicek
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 135 - Yasuragi
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 134 - khowell
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 133 - peraspera
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 132 - rubyr
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 131 - Tomtech
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 130 - Darryl House
Disaster in the Gulf, Courtesy of BP - ROV #129 - papicek
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 128 - gchaucer2
BP's Gulf of Mexico Disaster ROV #127 - E.O. Wilson Edition - Khowell
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 126 w/Herman Melville - David Kroning II
BP's Gulf of Mexico Disaster ROV #125 - gchaucer2
BP's Gulf of Mexico Disaster ROV #124 - Tomtech
BP's Gulf of Mexico Disaster ROV #123 - Yasuragi
BP's Gulf of Mexico Disaster ROV #122 - Solstice Edition - Darryl House
BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster Father's Day on the Gulf Edition Continued #121 - Pam LaPier
BP Oilpocalypse Liveblog ROV 120 - KHowell
Previous motherships and ROV's from this extensive live blog effort may be found here.
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