Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine

ok, WHAT is happening in the Gulf Of Mexico, already???!!!!






PUBLISHED SEP 9, 2021 3:24 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE


A crewmember from the damaged drillship Noble Globetrotter II has filed a Jones Act seamans' injury lawsuit against operator Noble Drilling and charterer Shell, alleging that they failed to take appropriate action to protect the vessel and crew from the impact of Hurricane Ida.

In late August, the Globetrotter II was operating at a Shell-owned lease site south of the Mississippi River Delta. She was engaged in drilling a well when then-Tropical Storm Ida formed in the Caribbean, and her crew disconnected and departed the site to get out of the storm's path on August 28. The vessel still experienced "hurricane" conditions, according to Noble, and it sustained significant damage. A cofferdam space was breached, resulting in limited flooding, and photos taken on board appear to show damaged equipment on deck. Nine crewmembers sustained minor injuries, including four who were medevaced to shore.

According to a complaint filed by attorneys for the injured crewmember - rig roustabout Brandon Freeman - the vessel experienced swells of up to 80 feet and winds of up to 150 miles per hour because Globetrotter II "headed directly into Hurricane Ida," coming within 10 miles of the eyewall. The suit alleges that "ferocious sea tossed the crew around and threw them into walls" and that the heeling motion "was so extreme that the Globetrotter II almost capsized several times." Under the severe circumstances, some crewmembers believed that "they were going to die," the suit claims.

Freeman's attorneys alleged that Shell and Noble had knowledge of the risk posed by Ida and failed to take action to protect the vessel and crew. "Despite the undeniable path of the oncoming storm, defendants continued to operate the vessel in direct defiance of the National Hurricane Center's forecast," the suit claims.

The U.S. Coast Guard inspected the vessel at sea after the storm passed, and its team determined that she was stable and had adequate emergency equipment on board. The ship has put into port at Pascagoula, Mississippi for repairs, and Noble Drilling has declared force majeure for the vessel's charter with Shell.



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from September 1, 2021:

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some of the refineries and petrochemical facilities have power, but, sort of shockingly, a lot of them don’t. And because they don’t, they are releasing horrible flares, black, dirty flares. They’ve been flooded. They’re releasing chemicals. They’re spilling. And they’re not expected to have power for another two weeks. So you have the impacts on the citizens, on Sharon and her community, of not having power, of not having assistance. And then you have this petrochemical and fossil fuel industry that might spend two weeks unable to repair itself, and so you have compounding problems on top of each other. And that’s just the onshore problem.

Offshore, there’s a whole host of drillships, platforms, infrastructure that we know that’s been damaged, but they can’t get out there. So, the Coast Guard has done flyovers, but the companies haven’t gotten out there, so we still don’t know the extent of the damage offshore. And part of that, again, is this power outage problem which is still plaguing the state. That said, we already know of at least 350 reported spills in the Gulf and on land, waters. I think the impacts are going to be, as you read, devastating, continue to be devastating, when it’s all taken into account.

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I've been with this thread a long time yo. so so long.
so like yeah im sending you positive vibes at
take it easy

Wouldn't it be epic if we get this thread to 1774 pages?

Bastardo...


Did we all volunteer for this shit or just stumble into the chaostrophy and have ...'fun' since then?

A real gem

This has got to be one of the longest running ARGs in the history of the internutz.

Bump

Often wonder if rando gibberish threads like this are used for comms or signals. Another forum has a similar thread about hockey. No one really knows what it's all about, limited posters and postings, rando bumps.

Often wonder if rando gibberish threads like this are used for comms or signals. Another forum has a similar thread about hockey. No one really knows what it's all about, limited posters and postings, rando bumps.

ome pump dump!

This happens quite frequently.

Well hey Penny, how have you been? This is actually my 1st time coming to this thread in my 12+ years here, but I did read a manifesto, or plan, or something by the dark powers, that they have been planning this for some time. That is to remove all people from the coastal to mid-inland areas around the entirety of the gulf by haarp controlled storms that would jack everyone's insurance to the point where it was too much, or the companies would no longer pay or write policies, oil ships and platform disasters like we have and are and will witness will be the excuse to evacuate or force everyone out, and just use up the gulf's resources, and treat it like the hellhole it is already becoming. Not for power or money, but to watch us all wallow in misery until we die so they can have what's left.

Reading that led me to only one conclusion--this is truly a war between good and evil- I mean like the Bible kind-, and it's not humans we are battling. No human has that in them. Not for any amount of power or money. Possessed. "Invasion of the body snatchers"'ed, "Tbey live" comes to life. And I do believe the stuff we see in movies is their way of telling us the truth. A portion of me believes the harvest is upon us, and either we stand together as one, or the forces of dark will borg us, and God will have to do a hard reset. Either way, evil is gone, and God wins. The ending isn't for everyone.

Wheres the info about the submarine

A. It's not gibberish hence, it is comms.
B. The bumps aren't random.
C. It is a place to check in with 'the others' who know the history and meaning behind the thread.
D. It's fucking epic, eh?!

'The others'.....
Timothy Leary stated 'tune in, turn on, and drop out', he was then asked 'what next Dr Leary?'. Find the others. Was the response.

Just south of Belle Chasse, Yoder, a scientist with environmental group Healthy Gulf, pointed to the rainbow sheen covering the floodwaters that Hurricane Ida threw across the 2,400-acre Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery complex.

Farther south near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Yoder found shrimp boats chugging past a sheen more than nine miles long. South of Port Fourchon, where Ida made landfall on Aug. 29, was a cluster of rusted and storm-ravaged platforms oozing long, thin trails of oil. On the return trip, the plane flew over at least four patches of oil in the fragile marshes rimming Barataria Bay.


“It’s mind-boggling,” Yoder said Friday after Healthy Gulf’s fourth flight to monitor the spills left in Ida’s wake. “It’s definitely a surprise to see what’s out there. It’s always more than you expect to find.”

Hurricane Ida oil spills
Oil floats on the surface of flooded Phillips 66 oil refinery at Alliance on Sept. 9, 2021.

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More than expected, but how much? Two weeks after the Category 4 hurricane struck the Louisiana coast, it remains a daunting task to determine the number of spills and the volume of oil and other chemicals that ended up in the water. More than 2,300 spills have been reported to the Coast Guard, and about 900 have yet to be investigated. The spills that have been checked range from small fuel leaks off boats to the miles-long sheens from oil platforms.

If there's any good news in the preliminary tallies, it is that the volume confirmed to have been spilled so far is significantly less than the 10.8 million barrels released during hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Still, the accumulation of spilled oil from repeated hurricanes since then has scientists worried.



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Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 09/13/2021 03:15 PM

Updated: 02/06/2020

A new ‘smart sponge’ designed to clean up oil spills in the ocean has been developed at Northwestern University, Illinois in the U.S.

The sponge is described as highly porous and works by selectively soaking up oil, sparing both water and wildlife. It can absorb over 30 times its weight in oil and then be reused up to several dozen times afterwards.

The secret to the sponge lies in its oleophilic, hydrophobic, magnetic (OHM) nanocomposite coating. This chemical coating allows oil to be extracted from water with ease, meaning the process can turn any regular, cheap sponge into a smart sponge.


Vikas Nandwana, a Research Associate at Northwestern University, describes how they plan to use the sponges. They will come in “sponge sheets” which are wrapped into rolls. There is no limitation in size but, “typically, 2-3 feet width is enough,” he says. The sheets can be employed in many ways. Most commonly, they would be applied like ‘sorbent pads’ (absorbent pads used to cover beaches after an oil spill) but they can also be airdropped in to soak up oil from the sea.

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Mysterious bacteria found in the Arctic can break down oil and diesel

Ocean bacteria in the Canadian Arctic is capable of biodegrading diesel and oil, according to a new study.

Scientists at the University of Calgary found “unexpected” microbes in the icy waters of the Arctic which they say would respond well to an oil spill in the region. The study’s findings were published in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal.

Paraperlucidibaca, Cycloclasticus, and Zhongshania, types of bacteria which live in the Labrador Sea, are able to break down the fossil fuels present. They clear up the ocean, ensuring that it remains a vital resource for surrounding Indigenous communities.

Coauthor of the study Dr. Casey Hubert, an Associate Professor of Geomicrobiology at the university, explains that it was one of his students who alerted him to the problem.

Sean Murphy, who grew up in the region, instigated the project after recognising the complex relationship the people of Newfoundland and Labrador had with offshore oil. It brought them benefits in the form of fuel, but the community had been deeply troubled by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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“Most of the studies that look at oil-eating bacteria are from lower latitudes,” Dr. Casey Hubert, associate professor of geomicrobiology at the University of Calgary and co-author of the study, told CTVNews.ca. “It’s not new that bacteria eat oil, but it’s interesting to start to learn about how they would do that in Arctic environments where the temperature is really cold

Something that is new, however, is that certain bacteria observed hadn’t shown this type of behaviour previously.

“Some of these groups had not ever before been shown to be capable of this oil degradation,” Hubert said. “By looking at a permanently cold marine environment, we see for the first time some groups weren’t known before to be able to degrade oil that we now add to that list.”

The study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, involved researchers simulating oil spill remediation inside bottles by combining mud from the top few centimetres of the seabed from the Labrador Sea with artificial seawater and either diesel or crude oil.

In addition, the researchers confirmed that the use of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, could enhance the biodegradation process, even in the permanently cold environment.

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Sean Murphy—the lead author of the study and a native of Newfoundland, had collected bacterial samples from the Labrador Sea near the Canadian East Coast back in 2015. Genomic sequencing revealed that the bacterial lineages possessed the unique ability to bioremediate hydrocarbons. The bacterial families identified—Paraperlucidibaca, Cycloclasticus, and Zhongshania—had never been found in the cold waters of the Labrador Sea.

To test the bacteria's ability to eat the oil, the scientists simulated an oil spill within bottles using mud collected from the top layer of the sea bed and artificial seawater. They then added diesel or crude oil and other nutritional supplements to support the bacteria and facilitate faster breakdown. Researchers maintained a temperature of 4°C to replicate the conditions of the Labrador Sea.

Murphy emphasised that the addition of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus could act as fertilisers and potentially speed up the entire process. "The study also confirmed that providing nutrients can enhance hydrocarbon biodegradation under these low-temperature conditions," said Dr Hubert.

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A significant enrichment of distinct microbial populations was observed, yet, little is known about the abundance and richness of specific microbial ecotypes involved in gas, oil and dispersant biodegradation in the wake of oil spills. Here, we document a previously unrecognized diversity of closely related taxa affiliating with Cycloclasticus, Colwellia and Oceanospirillaceae and describe their spatio-temporal distribution in the Gulf’s deepwater, in close proximity to the discharge site and at increasing distance from it, before, during and after the discharge.


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