Jun 24 2010So Much For Bodysurfing: Alabama Oil Waves

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terrible...

that photo should go in the archives like that little burning girl and the arab girl with "the eyes"

It really is just depressing.
But, on the other hand, a really nice shot of the shit show.

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Correction, Leftover.

Water: BP's dump.

I stand corrected.

Fake. That is a lava lamp. Look at the shadows.

not cool.

Oh BP, you fail so hard

Well. That's pretty shitty.

On the other hand, if you had some matches, this could make surfing a whole lot more badass.

it doesnt look that bad

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@9 there is nothing fake about the oil spill

love the americans blaiming BP when american companies caused the spill in the first place, cheers guys just because your oil companies are shitty doesnt mean you have to destroy our profitable one

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why's orange beach named so? sounds like an interesting story behind that of which an old man should be narrating.. while rockin' slowly away.. to some alabama oil-spill blues..

bottom line: DAMNIT!

Since I just got back from Gulf Shores last weekend and spent 4 hours in the ocean, I would have to call bull. So unless it went from crystal clear Tuesday night to this crap in a few days I think it might be from somewhere else. They had crews scouring the beach, boats skimming the water, and burners farther out.

Isnt it neat that they left out the part where the senators are on record saying they may have slowed down the process and made it worse. Though this is BPs error at least they are trying despite the best efforts of the US government getting in the way. Gotta love bureaucracy and red tape at its best.

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http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4finnufVd1qaky90o1_500.png

I don't care whether this pic is real of not.

I'm British and I say fuck BP, I hope they go bankrupt,

Prove to all these assholes that nobody is “too big to fail”.

PS if you have investments in BP then tough, they've been a bunch of unscrupulous twats for decades and if you didn't see this coming then you're a moron.

Disgusting... Can't we use a helicopter bucket, pick up a nice big load of oily crap and dump it on Tony Hayward's front lawn (or preferably on his head)?

@16

Actually BP is responsible no matter who they hire to do the work. BP gave out specifications and then hired someone to do the job which they did to BP's specs.

So yes, this is undoubtedly BP's fault.

Awh and our family owns a place down in Gulf Shores.
Guess I'm not going down this summer.

This is all a liberal plot, remember? To make oil companies look bad.

Of course, if you believe that, I have this yummy shit sandwich I'll sell you for $50. I know you'll be begging for more.

@24 but those specs are also set by the us government that BO has to follow.

Also since the backup plan was based on crappy data from the government, I dont know how much blame of it being this bad is BP. BP screwed up and cut corners for this to occur. The federal government made it worse.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703900004575325131111637728.html?KEYWORDS=oil

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Looks like whiskey mixed with soot and poo. Dammit I'm thirsty now!

I guess I'm gonna have to be the aesthetic a-hole that thinks this looks badass.

also, I can imagine it being the inside of a giant frying pan in which tons upon tons of bacon are being cooked.

oh God, mmmmm..

LOLUMAD??

someone needs to construct a giant skimmer STAT

Orange Beach is right next to Perdido Key, which is right next to Pensacola. I normally vacation there this time of year, buy ya know how that goes!

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the rig US built, US installed and US manned??

Cool lava lamp...j/k

Damn! That looks really, really cool.

more on the disaster at big picture
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/oil_in_the_gulf_two_months_lat.html

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I guess you could say BP's facing some....

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i agree with 3, 30, 36. That looks pretty cool, 10 points to whoever surfs on it. 20 points if you take a dip!

I can guarantee you that is really what it looks like. I'm in Orange Beach right now, I work here. I've lived here my whole 30 years of existance. I'd like to skim up some of that oil and dump it on Tony Hayward's yacht, house, and car shortly before I take up smoking. While we're at it we can dump it on the corporate headquarters and set them on fire as well.

@16... BP has been fined by OSHA 760 times... in the same time EXXON has only been fined once....YES IT WAS BP's FAULT! if bp wants to save $100,000 on a blow off valve then this is what we get! free oil delivered daily to our finest beaches.. enjoy

@27 calling bull

BP was cutting corners with safety procedures for shutting down the well in order to save time and money.

The government is only negligible for not having the man power to properly provide over-site on safety protocols.

Of course US workers worked and maintained the well, it's in the US you dolt. That doesn't mean BP wasn't making the decisions. BP engineers and management made the plans, set the schedules and paid to have the work done/set-up and profited from the well. This is BP's fault you dumb fuck.

The rig was US manned, but it was owned by a small island nation in the Atlantic (can't remember which one). US inspection process for rigs is over a week, while theirs is about 4 hours. Yay for cheap shortcuts....

There was an oil spill off the coast of Mexico in the 70's that was open for 290 days, and that was only in around 160 ft of water. Divers could swim down to it, and it was still open that long. We're talking almost a mile under the water here. From an engineering perspective, it's easier to work on things on the moon than it is that far under the ocean. The uber liberal dirt people have made congress push oil rigs further and further off shore into deeper and deeper waters. What did they think was going to happen? Is BP responsible for the actual explosion/deaths of 11 Americans/oil spill, yes, but Obama and his fellow socialists in office told the Governor of Louisiana to not do anything to stop the oil flow from their beaches for at least 4 weeks while they studied the environmental impact of putting out sand bar barricades. Guess what, all of those marshes they were afraid were going to be devastated by the tidal change are now dead anyways.

Wow. That's beautiful in a way.

Wow the picture's been circulating on the internet since before my grandmother was born. Just sayin'.

The uber liberal dirt people have made congress push oil rigs further and further off shore into deeper and deeper waters.
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You're right. Why don't we have the oil rig in my backyard? That way when it spills, we can solve it right then and there! Of course, it'll kill me and my family, but who cares? At least it's right there in my backyard! THEM LIBERALS AND THEIR AGENDA! RADICALS! MUSLIMS! COMMUNISTS! SOCIALISTS!

@24 but those specs are also set by the us government that BO has to follow.
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No, they don't follow US guidelines and inspections. HAVEN'T YOU READ THE NEWS? They're responsible for ignoring safety guidelines. It's not the government's fault. Why is everything the government's fault when in fact, they're the ones hauling ass to clean up this shit?

ive seen that picture before & i'm sure its from the beaches of louisiana by me. our waters are muddy looking all the time because they drain off of the river add in the oil pushing ashore & you get this.

That picture is dated 06/14/10. I was down in orange beach, al last week on vacation - 06/16-20/10 and the ocean looked nothing like that. This pic is a bunch of bullshit. The beaches were fine!
Granted, double red flags were preventing anyone from getting in the ocean, but the water looked nothing like that. It actually looked pretty normal, hell even better that the usual muddy flavor that is the Alabama beach. Also: didn't see any oil washing up on the beach.
Not trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation, but don't believe everything you read. Just sayin'.

Yeah, the shadows are all wrong...

The oil just started washing up on the west end of Santa Rosa Island this week. It is heartbreaking. It's going to goo up the entire coast line eventually.

Awesome, I wanna go swimming with liquefied dinosaurs.

Seeing this, and being an Alabama native, is disgusting. I don't care whose fault it is, or if this is a real image; I just want to see this cleaned up and taken care of. They shouldn't have been drilling in the ocean without a plan to stop the leak in the first place.

obama waves!! Good ole americans

actually that oil well has been pumping since the Bush administration, BUSH WAVES!

Listen people! It doesn't really matter at the moment whos fault it is, all we should really be caring about at the moment is getting the pipe fixed properly and cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico...
I myself am British and I know that BP are shit fags and have atleast half of the total blame for this fuck up but we don't need to go at each other's throats about who's fault it was in the first place and what we're going to do to them (I vote for skinning them alive burning them in the oily sea water) until after it is all sorted out.

its all a conspiracy to protect and promote US oil

I actually live in Gulf Shores, which is about 15-20 mins from Orange Beach. Orange Beach got the worst it seems, but surprisingly the we're all still busy. Jimmy Buffet is playing a "free" concert down here to help bring in people.
WE NEED YOUR MONEY
lol

*sorry, it was supposed to say "surprisingly the island is still busy"

It looks pretty cool but its kinda terrifying. Don't get me wrong, it ist "cool" but its great photography.

@15

Yeah but there's a lot that's fake about this picture.

If you think this picture is real you're an idiot.

Why did GW post this. It's kinda pissing me off.

This oil spill is a nightmare and only accurate info is appriciated.

*appreciated

eww WTF nasty