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Storage tank from Deepwater Horizon washes ashore on PCB
Pfnama City News Herald ^
| 06/13/2010
| SARAH OWEN
Posted on 06/13/2010 9:02:55 AM PDT by Pokey78
PANAMA CITY BEACH Bay County's first tangible landfall from the Deepwater Horizon crisis is not tar balls or oil plumes. Instead, its a storage tank officials think was onboard the Deepwater Horizon rig when it exploded and sank off the coast of Louisiana in April.
A tank weighing 5,000 pounds with a 550-gallon capacity washed ashore Saturday morning near 14th Street and Front Beach Road in Laguna Beach, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Steve Caskey said.
A sticker bearing the BP name and the word Horizon led authorities to believe the tank was blown from the rig, Petty Officer Aaron Frost added. The tank also had a serial number on it, and Coast Guard officials have contacted BP, but have not yet received confirmation of the vessels origin.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:02:55 AM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
And our Cloward-Piven President continues towards collapse of the economy.
To: Pokey78
“A tank weighing 5,000 pounds with a 550-gallon capacity”, ROFLOL, what's it made out of space age lead. LOL.
To: Pokey78
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:06:28 AM PDT
by
unkus
To: Pokey78
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:08:20 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
To: org.whodat
"http://common.onset.freedom.com/images/copyrighted.gif"
It could be still partially full.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:11:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Pokey78
A tank weighing 5,000 pounds with a 550-gallon capacity ...
And no agency - Coast Guard, Navy, DEA, etc., - saw this object in the water until it landed on the beach?
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:13:14 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: org.whodat
"A tank weighing 5,000 pounds with a 550-gallon capacity, ROFLOL, what's it made out of space age lead. LOL."
It could be still partially full.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:14:01 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Pokey78
"A sticker bearing the BP name and the word Horizon led authorities to believe the tank was blown from the rig,"
Paging Captain Obvious, paging Captain Obvious.....
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:15:23 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
To: oh8eleven
And no agency - Coast Guard, Navy, DEA, etc., - saw this object in the water until it landed on the beach? Near neutral buoyancy, it would appear. It looks like it would have been easier to bump into it than to spot it.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:22:24 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Paladin2
Looks like they goota get some dudes to stand on the back of that tractor
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:25:07 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: FrankR
open it maybe the kenyans colb is in it
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:25:59 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: oh8eleven
And no agency - Coast Guard, Navy, DEA, etc., - saw this object in the water until it landed on the beach? Maybe they did, but very likely they did not.
Also, do you assume it floated on the surface?
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:27:07 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: al baby
Looks like they goota get some dudes to stand on the back of that tractor LOL...thank you for making my day.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:27:54 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: FrankR
I was thinking the same thing....
To: Paladin2
Diesel fuel weight is about 8 pounds per gal. That tank in the picture is about a 800 gal tank are less and wt is probably about 2500 lbs full. Try lifting a 55 gal barrel filled with concrete.
The picture tells you why farmers fill their tractor tires with liquid and put wheel weights on their rear tires.
To: Paladin2
EMPTY IT FIRST!
Probably filled with sea water. I can't see that thing floating if a tractor can't lift it.
To: cynwoody
I am more curious as to what that kids T shirt says
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:39:22 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom sarc ;))
To: Musketeer
Oily substance they claim. There was a pic of it floating in the water just off the beach and it was just barely breaking the surface.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:40:40 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Gondring
Also, do you assume it floated on the surface?
Doesn't matter where in the water it was.
How does a 2.5 ton object, in navigatable waters for 50+ days, not pop-up on someone's radar?
Ya' know, like what if this was a terrorist planting a small nuke.
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posted on
06/13/2010 9:43:31 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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