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BP engineer arrested for allegedly deleting oil spill text messages

Kurt Mix, a drilling and completions project engineer for BP during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has become the first employee of the oil company to be arrested. Mix is charged with obstruction of justice and allegedly deleting over 200 text messages from his iPhone pertaining to the explosion and repair of the oil well and rig in what became America's worst offshore oil spill.

Mix was involved with estimating the flow rate of the oil from the ruptured well on the sea floor, and authorities are investigating his involvement with the Top Kill efforts, which pumped heavy mud into the broken well to try to stop the spill. Experts knew that if the oil was spilling out at the rate of 15,000 barrels per day or greater, Top Kill couldn't work, but BP publicly claimed the well was spilling 5,000 barrels per day.

Forensic experts apparently recovered a deleted text from Mix's iPhone from the first day of BP's Top Kill effort saying "Too much flowrate—over 15,000." The texts were allegedly deleted after Mix had been instructed to preserve documentation pertaining to the spill. In a statement, BP would not comment on the case but said it was cooperating with the Justice Department.

If convicted, Mix faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the two counts with which he's charged.

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/bp-engineer-arrested-for-allegedly-deleting-oil-spill-text-messages.ars

It's a damn shame what happened in this. The gulf is ruined. Despite all the claims that everything is done, it isn't and won't be for generations to come.

Fishermen are reporting that the seafood haul is around 10% of what it used to be. Worse, lesions on fish and shrimp show that they are dying, slowly a little at a time. Some show mutations from the chemicals, like no eyes and no eye sockets. Crabs are showing up without the tips on their shells, like they were chemically burned away.

Comparisons have been done to what happened with the Exxon Valdez and the Prince William Sound and they are similar in nature.

People that worked the cleanup on the beaches, are now getting cancer. Livelihoods that went on for generations of fishermen are no more. Oysters are wiped out. The Gulf of Mexico supplied roughly 60% of the nations' seafood.

...and there is more. The radiation plume in the sea, leaving Japan will be a while yet before the massive amounts show up but small telltales are already there. It's showing up in the kelp. The trouble with the radiation is that you can't get it out of the fish once it is in. It will be there for generations, supplying the mutation force to change genetics of the fish.

The part in the Gulf is now dead for miles down-current of the McCondo/BP well. The current of the Gulf Stream circles around to join the Atlantic Current. A massive deep water flow making a circle from the US, across the Arctic, down the west European continent, across the the tropics and back up. It's deep water and not a lot of oxygen is down there. The pollution from the McCondo well will eventually reach the Atlantic Current. The only question is in my mind, above the thermocline or below it? Above is where all the ocean life is and the pollution will effect life there as in the Gulf with the exception of it being diluted. The fish probably won't die, probably won't have lesions on them marking them, but they won't be healthy to eat over the long term. Especially scavengers. The places to get good seafood are limited and likely to get worse.