The ocean is burning!
10Well, it was … this looks so apocalyptic!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fire-ocean-gulf-of-mexico-burst-pipeline-eye-of-fire/
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Well, it was … this looks so apocalyptic!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fire-ocean-gulf-of-mexico-burst-pipeline-eye-of-fire/
I wanna see some scuba footage!
@dvermilion
/giphy scuba Steve
@dvermilion @stinks
pretty sure that’s NOT gonna happen. At least I know I wouldn’t dive that! Maybe a remote submersible but the actual fire will be probably more impressive from the surface.
@chienfou @stinks …What if I give you 10 bucks. That’s 2 months of VMP!
Makes you think twice about buying more petroleum-based plastic junk, that’s for sure.
Don’t forget the Cuyahoga River also burned. It melted a railroad bridge when that happened.
Eye of fire? Holy crap!
/giphy sauron
Back in the 70s a natural gas pit was set on fire in Turkmenistan… and it’s still burning. It’s called the Darvaza gas crater, or “The Gate of Hell”.
@Hiz The coal fire in Centralia, PA has been burning for almost 60 years. It’s about 100 miles from me. Wish I had gotten there to see the ‘graffiti highway’ before they covered it up.
@cinoclav @Hiz I had forgotten about that fire. We used to drive by it when I ran an outdoor program at Bloomsburg State University years ago and we’d go on several weekend trips. Really spooky to see smoke come out of the ground in random places.
Dumb question…in the footage, why are they dousing the fire with water when it’s ‘in’ the water? Or would they be spraying some sort of fire retardant on it?
It just looked funny to see the boats spraying the flames with what looks like water.
(I am aware that oil/gas floats on top of water, but I would think it would just burn itself out when the fuel source was shut off?) 
@k4evryng The problem is they can’t shut off a 24-inch high pressure NG line hundreds of feet deep on the gulf floor.
That’s why they call it a blowout. At some point, the pressure of the water will slow the release. Hopefully they’re pushing to get some relief wells drilled .
@mike808 thank you for the explanation!
I knew there had to be a reason…I didn’t know they were so deep! Wow. That must have been an incredible sight to witness…and incredibly dangerous to fight it.
@k4evryng My bad. It is a 12" pipe, not 24.
And the fire is out.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fire-offshore-pemex-platform-gulf-mexico-under-control-2021-07-02/
@k4evryng @mike808 I like the boat in the background.
“I’m spraying water on… water!”
@k4evryng @mike808 “The turbomachinery of Ku Maloob Zaap’s active production facilities were affected by an electrical storm and heavy rains,” according to a Pemex incident report shared by one of Reuters’ sources.
Are they really saying rain caused a problem with an undersea pipe?
@blaineg @k4evryng
Could be the control systems failed from the storm, or the people procedures did before or after, or a combination.
I call it Satan’s Jacuzzi.
Better cellphone video converted to a crappier gif.
@mike808 Yep, that’s pretty crappy.
OMG
Okay, it really feels like it’s the end times. I’m not religious, but
“No more water, the fire next time”