For the Geeks Among Us

The Oil Drum offers up this piece by Heading Out that discusses the Gulf leak and the activities that were underway prior to the explosion in marvelous detail. You may know that BP has a plan to get the leak under control, and this comment stream within the post gives the details on that. One caveat; it's never been tried at this depth, 5,000 ft. What I am reading in various comments is a

The Deepwater Horizon - Is this what happened?

Trolling through the underbrush of the Internet I came upon an eyewitness account by a sport fisherman who was UNDER the Deepwater Horizon as it started to blow. I posted the link at The Oil Drum. It's a wild story complete with pictures. Have a look at Petrographer's comment immediately following my post. What remains to be determined is how that gas bubble got into the drill pipe and thus

Deepwater Horizon Fire - Not the BOP?

Via The Oil Drum an interview with a survivor of the Deepwater Horizon fire. And a side note, apparently some wingnuts are ready to cry "TERRORISTS", which the interviewee debunks at once. He should know. He was there.