Flying over the Huntington Beach oil spill
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2021
- See an aerial view of the Huntington Beach oil spill as I fly over in my small airplane to view the damage. On Saturday, October 2nd, over 3,000 barrels of crude oil began leaking from the Elly oil platform 5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach, California. This massive oil spill is a potential ecological disaster for Southern California's pristine coastline.
I’m yet another one of blancolirio’s subscribers making a small detour here 😎
Flying is my second love... I'll be back...
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Me too
Good job Wolfe! Where’s the oil dispersal aircraft? Do they not do that anymore?
LoL I was just thinking this guy could be “South” Blanclirio head quarters, then look who shows up!
Howdy Juan! I did see a large coast guard plane doing some low level recon when I was there. Other than that and a couple of oil booms, things looked surprisingly "normal" from my 1,000 AGL perspective.
Thanks for sending us over here JB..
Here.
I know the area well.
If they had the 747 Global Supertanker they could have dispensed the oil dispersing agents in mass quality significantly lessoning the damaging devastating environmental impact.
Stupid is as stupid does!
Blancolirio sent me: Also, very nice photography!
Awesome, thank you!
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Ditto...If you're good enough for Juan, you're good enough for me!
Thank you so much for the birds eye view. This is so sad....
I found this video on a Surfline email. Thanks for doing this and NOT making a huge political statement in one direction or the other, just staying neutral and reporting what IS visible and known. We're super bummed about this oil spill situation, it's just another sad event for us in 2021. We live in south L.A., and my teen son surfs HB Pier more than anywhere else. My tween daughter and I were scheduled for a homeschool nature field trip to the marsh at Bolsa Chica next week to see the birds of all things. Obviously neither of them is getting to do either activity right now. I'll be interested to see your video about the container ship situation. We can see them every day from our front porch. Everyone is throwing blame at people who don't appear to be the correct ones to be blamed. Excited to show my kids some of your videos later.
When I was a child oil seeping out of the ocean floor all along California's southern Coastline was easy to find. My Grandmother had a cluster of tar it had a lot shells embedded in it, (heavy crude) that she found when on the beach she was 7 years old. About 1895. My mother showed it to me. No one in my family was in the oil business. My mother told me the oil drilling had reduced the amount of on the Beach. Another natural seep is in LaBrea if you doubt the validity look that up.
Every time we went to the beach as a kid we got tar on our feet. Was just part of the deal.
Using coved death "logic" it was the tar that killed grandma! If they would of had solar & wind power that wouldn't have happened !
Excellent job. ...editing, photography, story line and production. Very professional. Thanks.
Much appreciated!
Thank you for reporting this important news. 👏 👏 👏 👏
blancolirio recomended your vids, so i sub to watch them
thx for swinging by!
Bryan, as always... extremely well filmed and produced! Were you able to fly out near the oil rig to observe what (supposedly) is a big cleanup effort? Thanks! Wayne
thx Wayne. It's a damn shame. I honestly didn't see to much from my perspective. There was a coast guard plane doing low level work and I saw a couple oil-catching devices deployed but that's about it (from my 1,000 AGL view)
today it is being reported that the oil pipe appears to have been caught by an anchor and dragged til it ruptured.
Great video, new subscriber referred by Blancolerio
Awesome! Thank you!
There has always been oil bloops on the coast for decades. Once it gets on you it’s hard to get off.
Yes, back in the 1950's, we almost always went home from HB with tar stains in our feet.
@@janblake9468 As a kid in the '70s & '80s we always got tar on our feet at the beach. Wasn't until I moved to the East Coast I realized all beaches are not that way. We thought that was just a normal part of going to the beach.
@@drewt3210 Yup. There are natural oil/tar seeps offshore from at least Santa Barbara on south. Those were heck of a nusiance, eh?
@@janblake9468 Yep so natural bugs eat the crud oil for dinner! But pumping reduces natural pressure & oil seepage! And the stupid fool of a governor wants to stop all oil drilling & force exparmantial death causing jabs in you!
@@stevemitz4740 Yeah, I know. I was working in the Union Oil exploration dept in 1969 when the Santa Barbara oil blow out occurred. Also I agree that Newsom is a fool, an idiotic, tyrannical dictator.
Thanks for the tour
Checking out this channel from Blancolirio..Great content.
Me too.
welcome!!!
Great video. Shows you how minor this spill really is. In a few months due to weathering, evaporation, oxidation, biodegradation, and emulsification, you won't even know this happened.
You kidding me?! That was miles of oil spill. Of course there’s been far larger spills but the damaged caused from this will be widespread. This is the only planet we have and we gotta take care of it.
Unfortunately it will take much longer than that.
Look at the population density right around that Huntington Beach Pier.
It's staggering. I grew up there. Way too crowded back then, now it's worse. And cleaning your feet of tar balls was a normal thing to do after going to the beach there when I was a kid. Thankfully I moved to Hawaii as a teenager.
Nice video! Great footage and reporting. Thanks
I understand that it may have been a large container vessel dragging anchor or anchors that may have ruptured or broken an oil rigs, oil line to shore?
I worked on surveys around the UK and Ireland, during the oil/gas boom, we usually berried the pipes in sand with a cradle over the pipe with tubes vertically either side forcing air either side so the pipe sunk under the sand so it was was buried at a calculated safe depth. On bedrock, rocks were placed either side to prevent such a instance of dragging anchors.
But a few years ago a ship deliberately tried to snag the gas pipe link between Norway and UK, the 9in pipes pressure had to be reduced. The pipe was in a cradle bridge across on of the deep trenches between Noway and the UK.
We used to have the same problem with ships mainly leaving Portsmouth and Southampton deliberatly discharging oil on our South Coasts untill this regular pratice was banned.
Leaving usually sticky tar on the sand and pebbles which got on our cloths.
Hope the pumping has stopped and it's fixed asap.
As it not only spoils the coastline but also marine/coastal wildlife and plants.
the anchor theory seems to be the strongest at this moment
It was done on purpose
@@coryburns9161 As your silly comment was, "done on purpose" Right? Same as my lucid comment, "Was done on purpose! !
@@stevemitz4740 I've learned to not let low IQ individuals like yourself not get me anymore you go and enjoy yourself now
@@coryburns9161 Are you as good at judging oil leaks as you are at judging I.Q. quotients? Do you enjoy judging, to demonstrate your [cough] I.Q. ?
Inquiring minds want to know!!!
Great job - thanks for sharing. What a mess that was indeed.
Thank you for this, your efforts are greatly appreciated. Appropriate audio track too boot, touché!
I’m pretty sure without oil, you would be grounded.
@Scooter Mc'd: you touched on my sentiments: there are no "win-win" solutions to the global addition to fossil fuels. Societies can ban diesel trucks and busses with the stroke of a politicians "pen," and then wonder why the shelves will be bare within the month. Outlawing gasoline cars while electric cars are a rich person's guilt-free trip when the 7 mpg SUV is in for oil changes; plus the lack of realistic infrastructure for refueling electric only vehicles for the vast majority of working people. And then we need to talk about oil based plastics, which will impact clothing, toaster ovens, automobile parts, electric toothbrushes, etc. I am with you: something needs to be done balancing fossil fuels and our expectations. Take care. Peace.
I'm not advocating for a halt to all petroleum products (not yet). What I do hope a takeaway is that offshore drilling is risky business. Some of the infrastructure for doing this is getting old and the results of its unreliability can be catastrophic.
Great flyover from Warner to Goldenwest. If I may say, the water quality there has been dubious since drilling began. HB Realtors love to push product. But having once lived and worked there, I'm sorry, the coast from Long Beach to Laguna has been a stinky polluted mess for decades. So now it is just tragically but officially worse...
Thx and good observation about the areas beaches.
Yes, I grew up there. My dad used turpentine to remove the tarballs off our feet when we got home from the beach. It seemed normal to me and my brothers.
That’s looking pretty bad..thanks for covering
it's a shame for sure.
The 3000 barrels is a Maximum number, not an estimate of the actual.
Thanks for this flyover footage. It helps give context to the issue.
I was headed to the air show today when I found out about the oil spill. I am just heartbroken to think of the ecological damage being inflicted upon our shoreline right now.
Glad you found it useful. I hadn't really seen any other aerial footage so I figure it would be useful for all to see. The whole thing is a shame. I wish they would tear down those oil platforms.
But not one ounce of sympathy for the 18,000 deaths & 750000 +++ severe adverse reaction from the force experimental Jab's [NOT Vaccines!] Why is that? Is it the dumb-down "education" (Making Cogs out of us?) or just plain Groupthink psychosis?
Inquiring minds want to know!
@@stevemitz4740 I think you may have stumbled into the wrong comment section.
Good call on the site Juan.
thx for watching
Went there August 30th couple months ago from Phoenix Arizona , such beautiful place dam
..."and the water turned into blood.." Thank you for sharing. It was kind of hard to tell at first, but if you really look you can see it. Might help if you could zoom in on it a little. Hope by this time there are concerted efforts to clean it up. Safe travels -
thx Nancy. I zoom in a little on one of the camera angles, but you loose image detail when pushing in too far.
Love the video
The population density in Huntington Beach is staggering.
it's all relative. For somebody that grew up there 50 years ago...perhaps. Compared to most major urban areas...hardly at all.
Yo' corniwolf, Thanks for making this awesome video. Like others have said, it really adds context. I can't wait to see the video you have coming out about the supply chain. Here in Texas, going to walmart and not being able to find what you want is getting really lame.
hey! Thx and yes...the whole supply chain issue is one that fascinates me.
Just subscribed, heard about you from Juane Browne.
Coming over to your channel at the request of Juan Browne “blancolirio” channel.
Great reporting...
Thank you sir.
Thanks for coming
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My uncle was an head driller when he was alive. He died back in 2003. He was the head driller on most not all of the ones in the Gulf of Mexico. While he was alive. He never ever had one single spill. This just did not happen. This was premeditated.
Thats waaaay more oil than they are saying!!
What?
The 3000 barrels, 126,000 gallons are MAXIMUM numbers not actual or estimates of actuals
juan sent me over--nice work
Please do a walkaround video of the N244ER - What are the controls you use, what switch is used for what. Am just curious to know the operations of the Tiger :)
Maybe I do that kind of video one of these days!
Did you buy your plane with that paint job or did you get it customized? It looks sick!
Thx Tim! That's the original '92 paint job and since it's been hangared almost her whole life, it's still in pretty great shape.
Could have used a narrative telling what we're seeing, I assume the darker water is oily water? Couldn't see effect on the beach because of altitude, a much lower pass might make the damage more evident - but thanks for posting!
I didn't narrate b/c I wanted to footage to speak for itself. As far as doing a lower pass, there are rules about how low you can fly in populated areas.
Hey! Great job getting footage of the spill! Is it possible if i can use your footage and include your name in the credits? ( Just for a high school project)
Hi Luke! Glad you liked the video. At this time I am NOT allowing reuse of the footage. Thanks for your understanding!
@@Wolficorntv great footage!!
Liked and Subscribed. Thanks for the referral Blanco!
thx for swinging by Paul!
Is KTOA your home field? It's mine and so of course looking through your vids I see we've hit up a lot of the same spots! Jealous of some of your longer trips though for sure.
No...I'm based at WHP. I flew in/out of TOA for this flight to operate my external cameras without running out of battery.
@@Wolficorntv ah gotcha
Another blancolirio subscriber...great video...will be back.
Man, that just sucks. I saw this reported on the local news this morning. Over 130,000 gallons spilled from a pipe leak. Crazy. I hope the company that owns it will be held responsible.
Fly safe and fly often, my friend.
Indeed it does. The company responsible is (of course) floating the idea that it could have been an anchor for one of the huge ships out there at the moment. We shall see. They still don't even know exactly where the breach occurred.
@ Gordan; But don't hope the company responsible for inventing Coved 19's deaths is held responsible, Right? Hate Big Oil go solar & wind power! Use public transportation, get you never ending experimental Coved Jab's & boosters, till death do you part!
Hey Wolf? Do you know who owns or operates those rigs off the beach there? .Thanks!!
an energy company out of Houston called Amplify
@@Wolficorntv Thank you!
Watched your video because Juan suggested it. Is that the whole spill?
last I heard the oil is drifting further to the south of where I was
*Thanks! Juan* sent me here to see ... oh w0w _the view._ Don't see Floating 'Barriers' known to be used. ???
In the '90's ('95?) I sailed out on my board in Fla. Golf; Hours pass, I come upon floating Plywood, i thought, ...
No, it was a Huge Turtle with Lovely Large Eyes. 8 ) Exciting! . ... but not when heading back shore, sailing into Oil.
I did see two oil booms a little further down the coastline but I needed to turn around and didn't get that far.
I'm another blancolirio subscriber making a detour here. Not much of a detour for me geographically, though.
Southern California is so beautiful from the air.
The dirty air. On a boat from sea the city scape is draped in a brown cloud. Not pretty.
Wow...........................................................
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Im in tears.. Ive never been affected like this.. So sad... And none will be held accountable.. I kept thinking.. Its just one spot and expecting you to fly past it.. But it just kept going.. And going.. How will we ever fix this and become seprated from such a high reliance on oil? We are too far in no? Itd be a dream.. But just not possible I think..
From what I've heard, beach cleanup has been going well. That said, these types of things can affect the environment for years. How much of what I filmed was oil I cannot say for certain. Either way, it should be a wake up call to shut down those aging oil platforms.
it didn't appear that there is a recovery in process. Ie: oil capture around the oil slick.
Another blancolirio guy here. Funny thing is that when I heard JB mention this strange new word "Wolficorn", my very first thought was " will this channel have someting to do with Probably Cause landing in a corn field ?"
haha. No Dan Gryder videos on this channel :)
Media reports are saying it was caused by a ship anchor hitting an underwater pipe. Why are so many ships anchored off the coast waiting to unload at the port?
ship backlog is result of current global supply crises. Watch my next video to learn more about it.
can you just fly anywhere (excluding off limits airspace of course) or do you need to file a flight plan and stick to it?
No, you can’t just fly anywhere, but that part of the coast is VFR airspace at that altitude, so no flight plan needed. But in Southern California there is tons of restricted airspace so you need to pay close attention to the charts.
While you can't fly ANYWHERE, you can go many places in a small plane. Flight plan is only required when IFR, in which case, yes, you do have to stick to that plan. The flight in the video was VFR, meaning other than avoiding certain airspace, I am free to fly wherever I want.
I learned to fly at Torrance in 1975. Good times.
did you ever see Bob Hoover hanging around those days?
@@Wolficorntv I did see Hoover once at a Torrance airshow but don't remember the year. At the show, he did fly his Commander and he was the best. I started flying in 1975 but it could have been earlier I'm just not sure--too many years have gone by. I lived in Torrance from 1971 to 1981. Thanks for your reply.
Hey. Juan sent me. nice channel Liked and sub'ed
thx Greg. Juan rocks. Did he mention this in one of his videos?
Oiled seal makes the best merkins
One or more of those ships out there dragged their anchor chain over the pipeline which ruptured it. As I remember, the oil company ended up being at fault via the courts. Malarkey!
Wolficorn, thank you for burning your fuel and air hours showing us what nobody else really wants to put in perspective. As you said, there are risks to offshore drilling but mega-big bucks in the pockets of politicians, oil company executives and stockholders (sadly that means many of our pension plans!). I'm another Juan Browne referral. Buy him a cup of Joe when you see him ;-)
Oil found on the bench predates oil production more than 100 years . It comes to the surface in a few locations, a famous one is LaBrea tarpits . The oil drilling and production actually reduced the amount of oil found on Southern California's beaches. It helps no-one to make statements that are factually incorrect and historically easy to be proved wrong what it does accomplish is doing in his diminished The credibility of the Liberals making those claims.
thx for watching Donald and glad you liked the video. I'll be buying Juan something stronger than a coffee!
It's good you don't mention huge profits made by Big Pharma's "Gain of Function" Coved 19's money maker & mass death scam, to profit company executives and stockholders! Let's blame & restrict Big Oil & get Gas prices up to the UK's $8 gallon for gas, "For the good of the people."
@@thomaslemay8817 Governor Gavin Nonsense say's let's outlaw all LaBrea and their toxic tar pit! Or convert it to non toxic solar money pit!
Depressing.
Yes very depressing! Imagine a flyover of all the dead people who died from Big Pharma's man advanced/ "Gain of Function" Coved 19, I.E. 15,150 miles of dead body's @ 5' tall, laid end to end! I.E. not even depressing enough to talk about, let Ye be ridiculed as an apostate!
Nice job. It would be great to see it when the sun was higher in the sky, and maybe a pass going the other way, but then again, I'm a nitpicking jackass. :) Thanks for showing us this tragedy.
Bryan, I met you a few weeks ago…zoom Cessna driver
Hey Barry Yes...thanks for swinging by the hangar the other day!
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I went to the Pier on Sunday evening, and couldn't see anything oily floating on top (I didn't go down to the sand)
That is HUGE!
From that angle you can see right down into the water. I'm horrified. It's a big deal in the news but they didn't have this angle.
Thank you for your efforts. Hopefully scientist will figure out cold fusion soon before the Earth shakes us off like a bad case of fleas.
Why has nobody ever invented a pumping system where a load of pipes can be chucked into the water to suck all the water and oil up and then separate the oil in some kind of filter and then just pump the water back into the sea ? I know it probably wouldn't be easy but fuck, it might help at least a bit.
That's kind of how the current oil barriers in use today work, they float with around 2-3 inches of material under the surface, catching the oil, but allowing the water to pass.
But in context, this was 126000 gallons (reported) spread on the ocean. We are probably talking about a 1 - 2 mm thick layer on the surface, if it's even that thick. The sheer amount of water that would be required to be pumped, as well as the fact that they would be dealing with tidal forces and waves would make the pump/filter idea nearly impossible.
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Welcome!!
This is a tragedy.
I wish they would just dismantle those oil platforms.
Destroyed, will have tar for 30 yrs
@@Wolficorntv Ya you and that silly psychopaths Gavin Newson! We need $10 a gallon gas! Needed to help bring on the Chaos needed for Change! "For out of chaos comes Change." I.E. the Godless Satan inspired Marxist Commie's motto!
@@robertmunoz9837 Silly we HAD tat for thousands of years before drilling reduced the natural pressure! 65 years ago my dad had toget out the kerosene & wipe the natural beach tar of our feet! Then iatrogenic medicine killed him, no the tar!
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thx Carol!
Funny how you don't hear anything about this in the news... This is the first I heard of it... So disgusting all this for some money
it was actually all over the news, both national and local, of course. Luckily the cleanup has been going well and hopefully the longterm effects are minimized. If anything, it should be a wakeup for how vulnerable our coastline is to the aging offshore drilling infrastructure.
Sent by Blancolirio.
thx for coming by!
@@Wolficorntv Great video btw!
Not the biggest spill I have ever seen by any means. Authorities believe a German tanker ran its anchor over the pipeline. Intentional? perhaps because they are pissed the US drivers aren't showing up to remove their cargo?
Are you sure it wasn't ANTFI or BLM? As in black oil matters? Coincidences? I don't think so!!!
yes...quite certain it wasn't one of those.
last I heard authorities are speculating it MAY have originally been damaged months ago. We shall see.
Day 8 people are surfing on the north side of the pier. If it was as bad as it looks on your video they wouldn't be surfing there now. Day two or three I was surfing at Bolsa Chica and the water was great. All of my walking out on the Huntington Beach pier and the Newport Beach Pier showed zero. My videos and walking by the Newport jetties showed none on the ocean and in the waves. If it's as bad as what your video is showing the beaches would be covered in black and I mean covered. That isn't the case. Unless of course if most of the oil just sank to the bottom or got cleaned up by boats? Spooky music at the beginning of your video? No spooky music at the beginning of mine. Furthermore, I think 2 birds died and 12 have been turned into the wildlife rescue. If it's as bad as your video shows there would be hundreds if not thousands of birds dead.
My video shows what I filmed from my plane. No more, no less. Perhaps much of what’s in my video is sediment. I have no agenda. I’m glad to hear the beaches are in good shape.
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Algoreism
This sucks, and fracking is worse.
Stop driving your car, flying your airplane, and using plastic products. Then we can stop pumping oil.
@@kenbeals4462 Actually, we could be producing our own, non-toxic diesel oil from algae, grown on farms in the deserts, with surplus industrial carbon dioxide, which is currently just wasted, after being liquified, and dumped in the deep sea.
Fossil fuels should be phased out, as they contain a variety of toxic ingredients, require energy intense refining, which produces many toxic by products; not to mention that fossil fuel is limited in supply, must be "discovered", drilled, transported to the refinery, and then to the p.o.p.
Leave that toxic sludge deep in the ground where it belongs; bio-fuels burn cleaner, have a higher octane, and don't contain heavy metal or other toxic wastes, also, don't require refining, only filtering (and are renewable.)
Plastics can also be sourced from plant waste, and are biodegradable, unlike their petroleum counterparts.
@ Ray! The real "fracking" was done in Dumb-down education school! [Fact] I.E. the topic of so maney books out now! try one and wise up frack boy!
@@barrykaine6526 Yes in the Godless Lib's & Dem's dream world if we just wish hard enough anything is possible! But in realty all Lib's & Dem's fear mongering bring us is, corruption, disharmony & mass death! As in 70 million abortions for one! 4 million coved deaths for two! Mass homelessness for three! I.E. "Free stuff" isn't free, it has a cost! [Fact]
Typical California it's ok
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