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Ocean 'on fire' as pipeline in gulf of Mexico ruptures

cormack12

Gold Member




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epicnemesis

Member
I hope what they said about no spill is true and not damage control. Kind of hard to see how you have fire on the surface of water and there is no spill out. Hoping because it’s a gas line and not a crude line?
 

MastaKiiLA

Member
They are using water to put out the fire in the water.

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This, although with a large enough volume of gas (which there obviously was), that water just turns into fuel with all the combustible gas dissolved into it. So more water could theoretically dilute the mixture enough to keep it from spreading or extinguish it.

Still, these offshore operations seem really sketchy, based on what I've read over the years. Like the lesser-known, but still insanely damaging Taylor oil spill, which also happened in the Gulf of Mexico, and is still going. It's the longest-lasting oil spill in US history. The industry is just a complete joke, as far as regulation and oversight.

At least this one here does indeed seem to be gas, given how clean the water appears, but who really knows. Underwater blowouts can drift for miles before surfacing, and gas is more buoyant than oil. It's hard to take anything said by officials at face value, given the history of the industry.
 
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Pol Pot

Banned
Which is why you don't drink salt water, yeah?
You can make your point or think I'm defending gas and/or oil spills in the ocean.
Unless that was your point?
 

420bits

Member
What else are they gonna say? fuck you and fuck the ocean?
Tbh, that would be refreshing!

"ok so, you heard about it and ye, shit happens you know.. If it makes any of you hippies out there happy, this was expensive as hell for us and the ocean but yeah, don't care about that part! fuck off and goodnight, we have shit to do to make more money"
 
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