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Information is pretty hard to come by right now, but if you have not heard, the latest estimate is that the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is currently producing 5000 barrells per day of oil...up from the estimate of 1000 yesterday...which is up from the estimate of nothing several days before.

I don't think it take a genius to realize that this is going to be monumentally bad and could literally destroy the marshes and oyster beds of the Gulf Coast from Florida to Louisiana.

How bad could it be...I have read reports that it could get worse than Exxon Valdez...much worse.

Right now, it appears that they have no real way of stopping the flow or even slowing it down. They are building a dome to place over the top of the hole, but it may be two weeks or more before it is in place.

I think we may look back on this event as the event that changed the game from an ecological and oil production sense. Bad news all around.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/louisi ... tml?hpt=T1

Anybody have any word on how this has affected the offshore charter services down there? Are they still going out, just staying away from the spill, shut down, etc...?

I have a tuna trip out of venice in July. I wonder what it's going to do to it.

isnt it funny how our perspectives and topics change with the circumstances...two years ago if we got news a well was producing 4000 more barrels per day than expected we would have cheered

agreed its a bad situation and I have been following it as we are headed to Orange Beach next week for vacation

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Thats a fragile ecosystem down there. I sure hope it doesnt impact it as bad as think its going to. Is it too deep to send something down to cap it off and make it stop. What are the options when something like this happens.

Read where they are going to have to set a charge off an make the whole thing cave in on its self an hope it self seals.

Deltamud77 wrote:.

I think we may look back on this event as the event that changed the game from an ecological and oil production sense. Bad news all around.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/louisi ... tml?hpt=T1

No doubt. Folks will be pointing to this for decades to come as a reason we shouldn't open up more offshore drilling areas.

randywallace wrote:

Deltamud77 wrote:.

I think we may look back on this event as the event that changed the game from an ecological and oil production sense. Bad news all around.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/louisi ... tml?hpt=T1

No doubt. Folks will be pointing to this for decades to come as a reason we shouldn't open up more offshore drilling areas.

i agree....the problem with most of those folks they dont want to have to give up the comforts that oil allow us.
they want their cake and mine too! kinda like big al flyin on his private jet tellin us to cut back cuz of global warming......
workin in the oilfield everday and hope to for a long time to come.

My roomate is cousins with Rimmer from MGFC...we talked to Rimmer today and he's headed back home to jack town to hang out....can't fish....word has it there's some attorneys down there talking the charter captains into slappin whoever is to blame with law suits...

They also cancelled the Gorenflo's cobia tournament out of Gorenflo's in Biloxi....so to answer the question about the charter business, from my understanding, it's at a stand still.

I'll lose my religion if I start replying to this topic, I'll sit back and watch.

MudHog wrote:I'll lose my religion if I start replying to this topic, I'll sit back and watch.

Mudhog, tell us what you are thinking.

I wish all the lawyers and sue happy people would fluck off. Yes it is tragic. It is the price we pay for our comfort. It happens. Did anybody forget that there were lives lost in this? Some mud man probably wasnt doing his job right. Instead of suing and trying to profit from this, why cant we all band together and get something done about. Lawsuits because you cant "go and do" like you used to are the reason that things are so fluckin expensive now days.

Well that isn't all true. spoke to a captain about 2 hours ago. they fished yesterday in the slick. caught fish as usual but he had to re-line some poles and clean an oil line off his boat. I personnaly won't run my rig through it, all that oil goes right into your intake. As soon as the oil slick gets directly south or west of SW Pass, all ship traffic will be shut down up and down the river and all commercial traffic will be diverted to houston. this came directly from a river boat captain (Federal) who i saw at the coffee shop this morning. this is going to be catastrophic(sp) on the ecology of coastal louisiana, especially if the slick reaches the coast. lets hope for the best!!!

Relentless wrote:My roomate is cousins with Rimmer from MGFC...we talked to Rimmer today and he's headed back home to jack town to hang out....can't fish....word has it there's some attorneys down there talking the charter captains into slappin whoever is to blame with law suits...

They also cancelled the Gorenflo's cobia tournament out of Gorenflo's in Biloxi....so to answer the question about the charter business, from my understanding, it's at a stand still.

Accuweather projection...Mississippi catches it in the teeth as usual.

Well I guess HE is not fishing...understandably so...I just assumed everyone had hung it up.

They're not just aimlessly suing people....say you make 3 G's a trip + Fuel....and you have trips booked everyday through August....Now you can't fish for a month....but you have a boat note, a house note...ECT. Well it doesn't take an accountant to figure out thats 93,000 bucks in gross profit. I see where they are coming from... but I don't have a dog in the fight so I really don't care.