Oil Spill Underwater ROV

[Zflash]

Below is a link to view live video footage of the ROV’s plugging and monitoring the leak in the gulf.

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_inte...ov_stream.html

Perhaps this will be interesting viewing for those competing or wanting to compete in NURC.

[rsisk]

Now that is cool! Thanks for the link.

[billbo911]

I've been watching on and off all day. I can't understand why it is so fascinating, but it is. It reminds me of sitting around a fire and staring into the flames.

[rsisk]

That is a good way of describing it. Having a hard time figuring out exactly what we are looking at, is that the top of the top kill structure with what I assume is oil still spewing out?

[billbo911]

They just pulled it to the surface. It is now hanging from the side of the ship. You can see lights from the surrounding vessels. Pretty cool.

[Chris is me]

I heard this year's NURC challenge was called "Plug the Oil Spill"... This should be a good design hint [/sarcasm]

Interesting, if serious, stuff here.

[MrForbes]

next year's might be "plug the oil spill", but this year's has to do with the Loch Ness Monster. We're working on refining our torpedo design right now...fun stuff!

http://www.selectric.org/nurc10/index.html

[Rich Kressly]

Lots of robots in use at the spill site, not just the ROV. Rutgers Univ RUCOOL glider folks are on the scene (Yes the same group the FRC103 grad Tina Haskins works with that I ranted about here before) along with other folks - all bringing critical real-time data back to the response team's many branches: http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/deepwater/

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by billbo911

I've been watching on and off all day. I can't understand why it is so fascinating, but it is. It reminds me of sitting around a fire and staring into the flames.

Thursday morning at about 8am Eastern the video of taken from one rov of the 2nd rov sitting in front of the broken pipe. Friday morning the video was the view of the robot attaching parts and fastening bolts and such then later it did subsea sampling. pretty neat.