On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jackie Myers <jackie_at_muddypuppies.com>wrote: > South Padre Island National National Seashore biologists saving the > sea turtles with an "incident command system" > > Kudos to the sea turtle science and recovery team. Wishing them lots > of good luck. > > That is good to hear. This oil disaster seems particularly hard on sea turtles. I hope that the top kill (something I never had to participate in) is working as well as rumors indicate. I was aboard the Discoverer Seven Seas (for at least part of the time as Chief Mate) while we set a deep water drilling record in the same general area as the Deepwater Horizon: 6300 feet. This was in 1984! I knew it was shaky back then. I had no idea that the technology had not improved much in 26 years. The DSS is now operated by Transocean... which apparently took over most of the deepwater drilling companies in the great oil exploration hiatus of the 1990s. Along with Sedco's rigs (I was on the 709) and, apparently, Global Marine (I was on the Hughes Glomar Explorer in 1972). Glad that people are out there doing what they can do. Craig *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 28 2010 - 13:55:57 PDT
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