Please rec the new Mothership #58 here. This one has expired.
The current ROV DIARY: Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #231 - It Ain't Over Yet - BP's Gulf Catastrophe David PA
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
44287/44668 - OceanInterventionROV1
44838/45135 - OceanInterventionROV2
46566/54013 - Viking_Poseidon_ROV1
55030/56646 - Viking_Poseidon_ROV2
31499/31500 - Boa_Deep_C_ROV_1
22458/23729 - Boa_Deep_C_ROV_2
45685/49182 - Skandi_ROV1 (herc14)
45683/45684 - Skandi_ROV2 (herc6)
47175/21144 - Enterprise_ROV_1
21145/21327 - Enterprise_ROV_2
37235/37270 - Q4000_ROV1
35523/35624 - Q4000_ROV2
41434/41436 - Oly_ROV1 (Olympic Challenger's ROV1)
40788/40789 - Oly_ROV2 (Olympic Challenger's ROV2)
24951/24975 - Inspire_ROV1 (Discovery Inspiration's ROV1)
30948/35246 - Hos_ROV1 (HOS Adventure ROV1)
35461/36301 - Hos_ROV2 (HOS Adventure ROV2)
Bobo's lightweight ROV Multi-feed: A great low impact multi-view page
Once 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
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
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #229 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #228: BP's Gulf Coast Disaster. - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #227: BP's Gulf Coast Disaster. - Orange Crush
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #226. BP's Gulf Coast Disaster. - ekyprogressive
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #225 - What makes a place a place - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #224 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - bubbanomics
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #223 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #222 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #221 - New Rules - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #220 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #219 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #218 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Darryl House
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #217 - The Test's Time is UP - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #216 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/peraspera
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #215 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #214 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Darryl House
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #213 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Tomtech
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #212 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Gulf Watchers Overnight/David PA
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #211 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - khowell
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #210 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - alkalinesky
Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #209 - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Lorinda Pike
Previous motherships and ROV's from this extensive live blog effort may be found here.
Information on our community can be found in Phil S 33's diary here. If you'd like, feel free to join in by sharing a little about yourself there.