Registered: 11/02/02
Posts: 7540
Loc: Empire / Venice, La
Still hanging on and waiting.
There is a lot of confusion about "THE BURN". They are not going to set the entire gulf on fire. It will be confined and controlled. Much of our land has already been boomed. This is above and beyond the million plus feet of oil skimming booms out there working on the actual spill. Just have to take one day at a time.
At least at this time we have a nice home to stay in. This will be a cake walk compared to what we went through in 2005. Worse case sinerio I could let them know I have a 100 ton license and run a crew boat for anybody down here. There are not enough captains to run the boats needed for this. The days straight and hours required do not look like what I would want to do at this time in my life.
There is a use for boats like mine just to move the media around and it looks like I will be doing some of that. Not realy getting involved right now. Tomorrow may be another story. Kind of on a wait and see.
Life is Good!
Fishing ain't right now. The inshore fishing is still going full bore at this time. Specks and reds doing well.
Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
Sucks that they've found another leak thats dumping 5k or 50k barrels a day still. I realize thats an order of magnitude difference but I can't remember what I just heard.
The ongoing flow is now projected > 200,000 gallons per day - 5 times original estimate. The slick at its present size is nearly enough to cover the whole of our Long Island Sound + 200,000 per day ongoing. _____________________________________________________
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- The U.S. military may be called on to assist authorities scrambling to mitigate a potential environmental disaster posed by an oil spill expanding toward the Gulf Coast, the Coast Guard said Thursday.
In addition, another controlled burn of the oil slick may be conducted, Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Erik Swanson said.
"We're preparing as many resources as possible," Swanson said, "and we're considering many different options."
Those options include bringing in the Department of Defense, he said. The military could be enlisted to drop or spray more dispersants on the oil, although specifics are still being developed, Swanson said.
Officials said late Wednesday the estimated amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from three underwater leaks after last week's oil rig explosion has increased to as many as 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day -- five times more than what was initially believed.
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Registered: 08/26/02
Posts: 18003
Loc: New Milford, and Anywhere Salt...
I've read that BP is willing to take any help offered. Some correspondence comes across somewhat passive.
BP should be breaking their huge piggy bank and pay to get this done!!
I'm not fat, I'm fluffy!
Judge Smails:
"Its easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worth while is the man that can smile with his shorts too tight in the seat."
Registered: 11/02/02
Posts: 7540
Loc: Empire / Venice, La
From the pit!
This is world wide news......
Today I escorted a news team from Gremany and was not only interviewed by them but by the AP out of Houston, Texas while I was waiting for the German crew to show up. Late tonight we have a news team flying in from France and will be landing in Miami at 10:00 pm. They should land in New Orleans about 1:00 am. They are scheduled to stay here and I will most likely be running them on my boat sometime tomorrow.
Every body is scrambling for help. My 100 ton masters license will put me on a boat yesterday. I can almost pick what I want to do at this time. I am content at this time.
A few captains ran out on a fun trip because every one of thier customers canceled and came back with a cobia, some nice mangrove snapper, a few gag grouper, and a bunch of scamp grouper. The fish are here but the media are scaring away the customers.
P.S. The oil is also here but not the heavy stuff like that in Alaska.
Life is Good!
Edited by CAPT. HOOP (04/30/1003:28 AM)
Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
Hoop,........SO sorry you guys have to go through this Now,...Like yal and the area haven't been thru enuff..........What a BRILLIANT effort this government has put forward,....... SHAMEFUL,...good luck to you and all the other fisherman,...Each and everyone of you are in our thoughts......
Edited by chris med (04/30/1003:08 PM)
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Registered: 08/26/02
Posts: 18003
Loc: New Milford, and Anywhere Salt...
They better get that well capped!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not fat, I'm fluffy!
Judge Smails:
"Its easy to grin, when your ship comes in, and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worth while is the man that can smile with his shorts too tight in the seat."
I suspect HOOP has been enlisted to fight the spill and thus is not able too post. I would love to hear his thoughts.
Keep fishermen (recreational and commercial) in that region in your thoughts, becuase they may loose the resource for a long, long time.
""Happy Talk" . . . . . Because it has worked so well thus far"
"It is not necessary to change; survival is not mandatory" - Edward Deming
"Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach" - Greta Thunberg January 2020
"I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted" - Elmore Leonard.
Team Man Made Climate Change is Real.
"Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children, but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them" - Pope Francis September 2015