NEW ORLEANS – A Coast Guard air crewman hoists a man into a HH-65C Dolphin helicopter after he was reported overboard from a decontamination vessel taking part in the Deepwater Horizon response effort the morning of July 5, 2010.
The vessel Philip Allen McCall radioed to nearby vessels at approximately 4:45 a.m. that the man, identified as 49-year-old Ricky Johnson, was missing 50 miles off the coast of Venice, La. and had presumably fallen overboard in the early morning darkness. He was last seen approximately 15 minutes earlier.
The vessel C-Escort joined the search for Johnson and later relayed the message to the Coast Guard at about 6:00 a.m, which dispatched the helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, and a C-144 Casa aircraft from the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala.
After several hours of searching by several boats and the two Coast Guard aircraft, the C-Escort spotted Johnson at about 9:00 a.m. and relayed his position to the aircraft. Johnson first tried to climb aboard the C-Escort but, after several hours adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, was too weak to climb the vessel’s ladder.
A rescue swimmer was lowered from the Dolphin helicopter and assisted Johnson into a rescue basket where he was hoisted aboard and transported to West Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Parish, La., for treatment. His condition is unknown at this time. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer Nathan Falkenstein. Uploads by deepwaterhorizonjic
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there are 4-5 videos please watch all of them to understand what happened…. they are attempting to cut something off of the BOP and drop the saw…. the recover the saw… start to cut again…. something happens to make the operator of the ROV panic and escape the area… then something blows!!! What in the world just happened???? Video Rating: 0 / 5
On the evening of the 28th of June at approx 7:15pm, Liberate Tate In protest over BP’s sponsorship of the arts performed a “Solemn” oil like spill at the Tates Summer party. Dressed in black and veiled the performers carrying black buckets with BP logos spewed molasses over the entrance way as onlookers watched in amazement as the Portland stone floor was consumed by the black oil like mess. Feathers were scattered and filled the air and in the same manner of approach the artists gracefully paced their escape. Licence to Spill “Apart from catastrophic spills like the Deepwater Horizon, there are a whole host of adverse impacts that are associated with the production of oil. On the local level, it often involves extreme forms of pollution for local communities, while regionally oil is frequently associated with greater militarization and conflict. Globally, carbon emissions, oil companies, and our collective dependence on the product they push, are taking us ever closer to the edge of climate catastrophe. ” To download Licence to Spill, a new release from Platform, visit www.carbonweb.org Info : www.artnotoil.org.uk Video Rating: 5 / 5
NEW ORLEANS – A Coast Guard air crewman hoists a man into a HH-65C Dolphin helicopter after he was reported overboard from a decontamination vessel taking part in the Deepwater Horizon response effort the morning of July 5, 2010.
The vessel Philip Allen McCall radioed to nearby vessels at approximately 4:45 a.m. that the man, identified as 49-year-old Ricky Johnson, was missing 50 miles off the coast of Venice, La. and had presumably fallen overboard in the early morning darkness. He was last seen approximately 15 minutes earlier.
The vessel C-Escort joined the search for Johnson and later relayed the message to the Coast Guard at about 6:00 a.m, which dispatched the helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, and a C-144 Casa aircraft from the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala.
After several hours of searching by several boats and the two Coast Guard aircraft, the C-Escort spotted Johnson at about 9:00 a.m. and relayed his position to the aircraft. Johnson first tried to climb aboard the C-Escort but, after several hours adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, was too weak to climb the vessel’s ladder.
A rescue swimmer was lowered from the Dolphin helicopter and assisted Johnson into a rescue basket where he was hoisted aboard and transported to West Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Parish, La., for treatment. His condition is unknown at this time. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer Nathan Falkenstein. Uploads by deepwaterhorizonjic
BP costs for oil spill response pass billion
NEW ORLEANS — BP’s costs for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill climbed nearly half a billion dollars in the past week, raising the oil giant’s tab to just over billion for work on cleaning and capping the gusher and payouts to individuals, businesses and governments. Read more on Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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