ML> the videos available on the BP site rather than sitting here 
 ML>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
 ML> armchair quarterback without a clue :? :rolleyes:

 WC> There's a BP video link site?

 ML> http://www.bp.com

 WC> Typically obvious.
 WC> So much so it never occured to me to look.

 WC> Thanks.

not a problem... i was rather surprised to have to point it out, really...
i started to (originally) write something like "obvious URL for the BP
site" which i guess i could have done :)

 ML> there's archived vids of their discussions... i watched one that was an
 ML> hour long the other day... there's even live real-time streaming video
 ML> from the ROVs down there... it is extremely interesting but can get
 ML> boring from the monotony of watching the same stuff all the time...
 ML> kinda like watching an aquarium with only one fish in it ;)

 WC> Yeah I got to watch some of that with the mechanical manipulator 
 WC> arms on one of my links here.

yeah... i haven't seen that yet but i'm only watching the one live link
from the BP site, too... i'm thinking that what you saw that looked like a
saw blade may have been the diamond saw they have talked about cutting the
top off of the BOP with so they could attach a plug on top... the cut has
to be "perfectly flat" so that the rubber grommet seal will fit
properly... currently i'm seeing a hose that's "bouncing
around"... looks like it is flexing from material being pumped thru
it... i'm not sure where the ROV is, though because its Alt jumped around
from 28.something to 158.something and now reads 0.0 and its depth seems to
be rising thru 4685.something at the moment but it was jumping around a
bit, too... the ROV appears to be the Skandi Neptune... its longitute and
latitude are also moving around so i can only assume that they are moving
it somewhere else than the plume monitoring place they've had it at... not
sure which plume they were watching but i think it was the riser pipe
laying out on the bottom (460' away)... it definitely wasn't the top of the
BOP where the riser was bent over and split...

 WC> Sending this then off to bp.com 
 WC> to scope out if that might not be another view or views. 

maybe it'll be something they can use... who knows? :)

)\/(ark