My father successfully represented the local fisherman in a lawsuit against the oil companies - one of his proudest "wins" in a long career serving the people of Santa Barbara. Thanks for putting this together! I was able to share it with his grandchildren and recount his small part in the story.
You have an outstanding ability to make a factual essay channel that could be in a mind numbing documentary format into an interesting story telling channel telling the narratives within beyond their intrinsic value. Truly you are an excellent storyteller, and thank you for this video!
So basically they were like "Hey you guys, can we ignore that important safety stuff pretty please? What could possibly go wrong?" and then they found out what exactly can possibly go wrong
When I was in high school there was a tanker collision in San Francisco bay that made a pretty big mess. The oil company even hired us older kids to shovel oil off the beaches. January 1971...that was the beginning of requiring tankers and chemical carriers to have double hulls, or at least they talked about it....
So the US gov completely ignored the protests of people who actually live in the area in favor of making money...then they let safety standards be ignored ( in favor of money ) and then when things inevitably go wrong...a fine that's not even really a slap on the wrist gets levied and things carry on. I am shocked, shocked I tell you!
I worked on Platform C as a Welders Assistant/ Fire Watch in the early 90s. My boss "MacGyver", was a contractor, and was basically on his third rebuild of all the splashworks, and everything else that rusts away. The Oil is Sandy and thick, causing scour in the 48" lines and sometimes they burn a hole and we have to put a HUGE patch cover over it (yea, its easy AND fast) NOT! ...strap it down, but what a mess! Was a fun job.
The subtlety with which you describe the environmental impact on both land and sea was masterful. You just stated the numbers, which speak bleakly for themselves. Top notch, as always.
I live in orange county, half way between the leak and San Diego. You can still find clumps of oil tar after storms and on hot days sone beaches still smell like crude.
That's from hundreds of natural seeps, with the largest being at the Coal Oil Point Seep Field. California Longshore current travels from north to south, so the petroleum will travel in that direction. It's why one will almost always see an iridescent sheen on So Cal waters, especially at Goleta, Carpenteria, Ventura, and further south. Just for Coal Oil Point, it's estimated at 100 to 150 barrels of oil per day. I think La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles is coming from the same formation. 500,000 years of seeping.
@@redactedrider760638 million$ in cost is already adjusted, it was 4.5 mil. at the time. Also from napkin math, 4.2 million gallons of oil is something like 100000 barrels, so with modern prices oil itself would cost about 8 million.
@@foo219Especially when the boss puts deregulators in charge of depts that should be regulating. You can expect a lot more of these type of events over the next four years.
@@markc17knowing how Harris handled the southern border one should be thankful for the change in government.. it’s frightening to think of how many incompetent people are now overseeing this industry
I'm too young, born in 1965 to actually remember that incident but I was raised about a mile from.the beach South of Santa Barbara in Los Angeles next to LAX airport. My neighborhood is on the Northside of LAX and the airport is actually on the property of my neighborhood called Westchester /Playa Del Rey. The Southside of LAX is El Segundo which is the home of the second Chevron refinery built in California in the early 1900s creating the company town of El Segundo which is Spanish for The Second. The refinery has oil tankers that drop anchor about a quarter mile off the beach near Dockweiler State Beach and El Porto , there is an Edison power plant also on the beach at that location. When the tankers drop anchor they have underwater pipe connections that they couple to and crude oil gets pumped through underwater pipeline to the refinery and sometimes refined gasoline or other products are pumped to the tankers for delivery elsewhere. Growing up surfing and sailing and fishing and snorkeling I spent a lot of time in the water of the Santa Monica Bay. In the location of El Porto (45th St) is a great surfspot during good swells and during the 1970s and 1980s when you were in the water at that location we would constantly get thick black tar on our surfboards our shorts our feet and hands, it smelled very strong of gas in the water at times and the only way to get that tar off of you was paint thinner or gasoline. If it got on your surf trunks it was not likely to get out the stain completely. Many years and many articles of clothing and sandals and beach towels ruined by the leaking crude oil. It's still that way today. The connection and disconnection of the underwater pipeline spills crude every time and they do that a couple times every week.
The port and mission originally shipped cow hides. Before the Panama Canal the ships sailed around South America from Boston to pick up ship loads of dried cow hides for the east coast leather industry in Boston and New York.
Yeah and you cannot walk on Arroyo Burro beach( Hendrys beach) without getting oil on your feet/shoes. Almost impossible to clean. God forbid you take your dog on a walk down those beaches.
I grew up in SB in the 60s. Tar was washing up then. It's been washing up always. Do you know that the first real industry in SB was the harvesting of the natural asphalt that was above ground and visible.
Another brilliant video. No sensation, just facts. I've said this before yet I cannot work out why you don't have at least a million subs. When you look at the channels that have multi-million subs and put out garbage I have to wonder about the mental capacity of those subscribers. On another note was this disaster ever investigated? Did money change hands? Some people should have ended up jail.
i really dig your channel. i look forward to each weeks videos. i know there is a pronunciation differential between our 2 cultures, and i don't mean to be a grammar demon. but Lyndon Johnson's first name in america is pronounced 'Lind-un'. when you say it at normal speed it sounds like 'Lind-in". thanks for the videos. most older people will know who you're talking about if you simply say LBJ.
He's really quite good at receiving pronunciation feedback; I noticed in this video UNOCAL got the standard pronunciation, where it had his intuitive pronunciation in earlier videos. And agree entirely - these are always high quality, succinct videos
Your seem like a decent chap, one who’s educated in our planet’s majority seascape environment,I’m a native of Liverpool myself and just a few years older, so I’m just curious as to what your thoughts are regarding the sad raft of petroleum disasters that have blighted our oceans and seas from San Francisco to the Caspian Sea and whilst I am impressed by your work here I am compelled to ask what you yourself feel regarding the seemingly endless deaths of our fellow man and how you envisage the future, ideally or abstract. Much respect Sir, Dave. 📚🇬🇧☘️
Hey Dave I think I’m a pragmatist. I’m not a fan of big oil. I think that often decisions are made in the name of profit with little thought to the consequences. That’s true of almost any large corporation run by committee. But chemicals can have such a huge impact on the environment and people. On the other hand I drive a petrol car, I find the engineering incredible and I have a huge amount of respect for the people who work in oil, often putting their lives at risk to keep the economy turning. We would not be as advanced as we are without it. I think in the future, we will all probably need to make conscious decisions about our use of energy. Oil is a short term decision. It’s quick and easy. To change our behaviour we need to make decisions today that affect our future but they’re not as easy as oil. A bit like exercise. It sucks to do but we know it’s good for us. In reality I think we need to use up all the oil so we run out of options and have to adopt new technology. How long that takes, I don’t know. For now we rely on it.
@ my friend I am grateful for you taking the time to reply here and as someone who was born and raised on the banks of the river Mersey and the culture was cammell lairds shipyard and a city apart from the rest of England buoyed up by the Eireann diaspora and the fantastic mix of global people including the oldest Chinese community in Europe you can hopefully see the outlook we had rather than the inwards looking perspective that the majority of Britain has held onto over the years and after watching many of your uploads now I was compelled to ask you for a few of your ideas and your thoughts on a little bit more than what you offer us all in your wonderful work and well crafted posts and I’m not being nosey but I assume that you’re a native antipodean and that you seem to be a chap who would be quite inquisitive regarding your family history as indeed I am and so I guess I’m just trying to explain my curiosity and reasoning for being inquisitive. We lost our grandfather in #WW2 aboard the HMS Celendine in 1943 and our matriarchal grandfather served in the RAF and once again I am most grateful for your time responding to me and your channel is pretty special and I hope you continue posting on it for a long time to come. Best wishes from the city of Liverpool and keep shining your light brightly Sir. ⚽️🇬🇧☘️🙏📚🏴
Your content is great, but the AI you use is really distracting and hurts the credibility of the material. Good facts paired with fake photos is like eating prime rib with ketchup
So thought provoking on so many fronts: - the tragic toll on wildlife, environment and local economy, - the failure of regulatory oversight, and how those regulations are designed, - and not least, the technical and engineering aspects of predicting overpressure, then preventing, and ultimately containing, the blowout... We should be able to learn so much, yet the lessons never seem to stick.
As the old saying goes "Incidents don't happen in a vacuum, they are the culmination of multiple bad decisions". At multiple points a single person could have stopped the chain, including the Gov whose job it was, and instead they subverted their own regulations to prevent this!!!!!! IMO the oil company should also have lost their lease rights (in addition to fine and cleanup costs), and the geological survey should have lost the ability to allow exceptions.
That would leave the industry at the whim of crooked government. The "Deep Horizon" disaster was approved of by myriad regulators. Violations were OK'd and even encouraged by various regulators, not just one guy. Then when the well blew out, the regulators cited the offences they had approved earlier. Do not expect government agents to be truthful.
I lived I. Redondo beach, (about 100 miles away from Santa Barbara) in 1999 and I have three rocks I picked up off the beach and all of them, I’d later found, had spots of tar and crude on them. To this day you can still smell it on the rocks as well and see it.
I remember in the back in the 90s me and my family went to the Santa Barbara beach and I got a glob of crude oil that had washed up on the beach stuck to my foot, it took several days to get it all off.
Use vegetable oil next time. You won't walk a So Cal beach very far without getting petroleum on your feet. There's hundreds of natural seeps on and offshore.
Was the entire usa not won, by mass migration leading to mass invasion? They like to use the soft language, and call it expeditionary forces or Pilgrims. They were invaders
“Hey! I’ve got a great idea! Why don’t we just cut a few corners? Nothing bad ever happens when companies do that…”. Always slap the guy who suggests this…. I always look back and wonder: “What were they thinking?” The really crazy part is that, someone actually AGREED WITH THEM!!! SMH….
Grew up in L.A. as a kid in late 60's early 70's and when I went to the beach my feet got covered in tar..old timers said it was always that way because of oil seeping up from the ground out at sea. After they started drilling for the oil beach sand cleaned up...
It's a good thing we as a society are so reactionary or we might need regulations to control this kind of malpractice. Oh, right, we do have them but so many seem to ignore them or have them removed for profit. Profit. Thanks, mate. Take care, fair winds
another banger video! sadly i knew greed would have something to do with it. These oil companies got access to a life time deal for cheap and they still want to cut corners. I really could see know legit reason why they thought it would be a good idea to drill in short in the first place.
What do they say, safety regulations are written in blood? In an oligarchy regulators are captured and obey the oligarchs that don't care about the blood of proletarians. Thank you, excellent as always.
When money, influence and power means more to people then health and safety. Last time Trump was elected he turned it up. Question is, when will the next disaster happen, because it needs to feed a war? Scary future ahead perhaps
Did you mention "beach tar," blobs if sticky black stuff in the sand left from oul spills? My family would go to the beach in Santa Monica, CA from 1970-1972 and our beach blanket (an old bedspread) had hardedened, black tar if various spots.
Hey. The video was based on a story that’s not proven, a conspiracy. I thought the research on the diving techniques was interesting so I made a story. It was badly received because the audience want factually accurate stories. I tried to repost to clarify that it’s just a story and that the diving interested me but that didn’t fly. I don’t want the audience to feel like they can’t trust my videos. It’s not a conspiracy channel so it wasn’t aligned with the channel and I took it down.
And you ask yourself, would you want someone that wants to deregulate industry and 'drill baby drill!' In charge of that 'sweet liquid gold', just saying regulation isnt a bad thing... And wow.. our little brains have a hard time understanding the size of geological formations.. they literally cracked the earth open
And I bet that you think that items just magically appear, are transported through the air to get to your market. It never enters your very thick noggin that the tractor that harvests the plants runs on fuel. That the truck that transports these vegies/fruits to market runs on fuel. And then your party puts a stranglehold on the fuel industry, making fuel and transport more expensive, and you think that grocers are gouging you? How old are you? 5?
markrix asks "And you ask yourself, would you want someone that wants to deregulate industry and 'drill baby drill!' In charge of that 'sweet liquid gold', just saying regulation isnt a bad thing?" Well, he said he has a little brain. That explains why he thinks grocers are price gouging and doesn't understand that grocery stores have a profit margin of only 1%. Markrix doesn't understand that the tractor that reaps yummy veggies from the earth runs on fossil fuel, as does the truck that transports the veggies to the processing plant and the truck that transports the veggies from the plant to the market. Since a senile old fool declared war on the fossil fuel industry, causing prices to go up has absolutely nothing to do with the prices of veggies. Yeah, keep drinking the kool aid markrix.
Another fantastic telling of a horrific mess-up in human history. But did I miss something, what was the reason for the conductor and surface casing not to be installed??
The whole Santa Barbara coastline and further south still to this day has that sickening crude oil stench - over half a century later. But we humans keep on sickening other parts of our planet with these big events every few years. But hey, let's maintain and grow our modern "way of life".
And i bet NO ONE was ever held accountable from the corporation and politicians .. but if i poured a quart of oil into the sea i would be arrested and charged for environmental terrorism...
3:05 I had no idea there was a president named "Lyden Johnson." As a bigger insult the narrator says this over the correct name "Lyndon Johnson" appearing on screen. Even with the narrator getting this wrong it could have been easily corrected in editing.
What strikes me most is the carelessness of the whole operation: safety margins are cut to or even well below the bare minimum and yet signed off on without seemingly much problems. The scary thing is that all these decades later companies and governments still seem to have learned nothing from accidents in the past and still put money (read: greed) before safety wherever they think they can get away with it, consequences be damned. It's this "who cares about tomorrow as long as the dollars pour in today" attitude that ruins economies, societies and the environment, just so a select group of already very rich people can become even richer at all costs.
You know that saying about “I’m from the government and I am here to help “? Replace “government” with any of these greedy companies and it starts to ring true.
I went to UCSB,every apartment and dorm had black oil stains on floors and carpet, the beach’s had black globs,the oil smell was everywhere,that was in 1987,I’m sure the oil is still there….
I used to think that if we could find a different business for oil companies to do that provided them with equal profits they would change in heart beat because they just want to make money not destroy the planet however when hearing this story as well as many others are making me think that that idea is not true!
Amazing HOW big OIL and GAS were allowed to ride roughshod over the Safety and Environmental concerns... And when confronted about it their patheic and sick response " No Problem, everything is (>NOT>) OK... And we have it under control... Under Control...??? What kind of Control were they thinking or describing and how were they using that idea???
Can we take a moment to realize that we have destroyed every beach and small businesses over greed.. The small fishermen business has been destroyed. Making it easier for corporate companies to come in fishing the same grounds. B.P. Exon Valdez. Deep Water Horizon And so on… It’s never the same And people are never made right again
You would rather we be dependent on foreign oil and gas? How did you like the high gasoline prices these last four years? Are you aware that the day after Trump got elected, Germany declared they are going to buy American oil?? No, probably not....
@@s.marcus3669They, and the rest of Europe, have already been buying a lot of our oil the past few years. There are other ways to become less dependent on foreign oil besides producing more of our own.
Thanks for your video! I hate to "go there," but everyone needs to be aware...the administration that allowed this to happen & loosened the mandates for Union Oil was a *Republican* administration. I know it was a long time ago, but one thing is for sure...Repubs love their oil & lobbyists...that much hasn't changed. Vote with your conscience this election.
@@Corinne-v9c that thing you wrote this comment on, what do you think it is made from? What do you think powered the extraction and refining of the metals needed? Sanctimonious hypocrisy.
@@Me-zo8yc I knew I'd probably get a nasty comment from a Trumpie...& that's ok. I'm well aware of how electricity is produced...& where I live it's a hydroelectric dam. There are also other ways to produce electricity & have transportation other than gas/petroleum...but someone as incurious as Trump & his supporters could actually *care less* about new tech. And that's a real shame. He even says windmills cause cancer...how stupid is that?! I'm not sanctimonious...I just want leaders who aren't incurious & look to the future, not the past.
That makes one want to write... Did you not pay attention, when watching the video? Watch it again... Or.. to help you. They cut corners on safety and regulations. Then bad stuff happens, or the risk of it multiplies exponentially. Exactly what happened with so many other oil/gas related accidents and catastrophic events. A recommendation. Have a look a chinese tofu dreg, and see exactly what happens when you cut corners to the extreme. With extreme results
Your story telling as always is great but your choice of photos to captions on this video was terrible, some of the photos used were 60-70 years from the timeline you were speaking of. Just a note still enjoy your content
This is my first video from your channel and it's nice to see excellent narration when most can barely speak in an articulate fashion. I have one suggestion and one small correction: the suggestion is to title it as: "The 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Drilling Disaster" The correction is in the pronunciation of then-President Johnson's first (and very unusual) name of "Lyndon"; it's spoken as "Lin-dun" and not "Line-dun". Fun fact: President Johnson was one of the most racist, sexist and corrupt of the Democrat Presidents, setting a precedent which has been approached and nearly matched by the last two Democrats to occupy the White House....
My father successfully represented the local fisherman in a lawsuit against the oil companies - one of his proudest "wins" in a long career serving the people of Santa Barbara. Thanks for putting this together! I was able to share it with his grandchildren and recount his small part in the story.
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And i bet they just paid out and no one went to jail in the corporation or politicians that waved safety.....
But it's money. far more important than any fisher.
You have an outstanding ability to make a factual essay channel that could be in a mind numbing documentary format into an interesting story telling channel telling the narratives within beyond their intrinsic value. Truly you are an excellent storyteller, and thank you for this video!
Yes.
I want to go to Germany and take one of his scuba courses.
Yes!!! I was trying to find how to put what I was thinking into words. You nailed it!
Factual like how he refers to the "state of Santa Barbara?"
Thanks. I really do appreciate your kind words👍🏻
So basically they were like "Hey you guys, can we ignore that important safety stuff pretty please? What could possibly go wrong?" and then they found out what exactly can possibly go wrong
A tale old as greed.
And even then. They hit the dangers from Coast Guard and public, allowing it to spread even more!
The govt really dropped the ball on granting exceptions to the drilling requirements. They should have paid for the entire mess.
@@MrPLC999That’s what happens when politicians stand on reducing bureaucracy and red tape, sound familiar?
Lots of shots of Australia and New Zealand beaches 😅
When I was in high school there was a tanker collision in San Francisco bay that made a pretty big mess. The oil company even hired us older kids to shovel oil off the beaches. January 1971...that was the beginning of requiring tankers and chemical carriers to have double hulls, or at least they talked about it....
So the US gov completely ignored the protests of people who actually live in the area in favor of making money...then they let safety standards be ignored ( in favor of money ) and then when things inevitably go wrong...a fine that's not even really a slap on the wrist gets levied and things carry on. I am shocked, shocked I tell you!
The greatest democracy indeed
This is not by the people for the people….that is a lie. Everyone keeps falling for
Dont call a handfull of criminals, whose names snd faces should be named "the government".
That's what governments do!
It's heartbreaking to think about all the casualties, even though the lives lost weren't human. Thousands of animals gone 😢 great video as always
I remember watching the Exxon Valdez incident on tv as a boy.
Lost their lives in immense suffering too.
remember the feel good commercials advertising dish liquid to clean birds?
@@mike_w-tw6jd I sure do. Dawn dish soap really cashed in on that.
I worked on Platform C as a Welders Assistant/ Fire Watch in the early 90s. My boss "MacGyver", was a contractor, and was basically on his third rebuild of all the splashworks, and everything else that rusts away. The Oil is Sandy and thick, causing scour in the 48" lines and sometimes they burn a hole and we have to put a HUGE patch cover over it (yea, its easy AND fast) NOT! ...strap it down, but what a mess! Was a fun job.
The subject matter is outstanding
The narration is even better
Thank you mate
👍🏻😀 thanks
Agree.
The subtlety with which you describe the environmental impact on both land and sea was masterful. You just stated the numbers, which speak bleakly for themselves. Top notch, as always.
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I live in orange county, half way between the leak and San Diego. You can still find clumps of oil tar after storms and on hot days sone beaches still smell like crude.
That's from hundreds of natural seeps, with the largest being at the Coal Oil Point Seep Field. California Longshore current travels from north to south, so the petroleum will travel in that direction. It's why one will almost always see an iridescent sheen on So Cal waters, especially at Goleta, Carpenteria, Ventura, and further south.
Just for Coal Oil Point, it's estimated at 100 to 150 barrels of oil per day. I think La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles is coming from the same formation. 500,000 years of seeping.
Another brilliant video mate. Always a pleasure learning about these events, even if they're a bit grim.
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38mil is a complete joke of a fine
Don’t worry
They got tax breaks to more than cover it😮
@@fastinradfordableget over yourself 😂😂😂😂
Tbf this was in the 60s. Today it’s be about 400 million adjusted for inflation…that’s was just the cost of clean up though.
@@redactedrider760638 million$ in cost is already adjusted, it was 4.5 mil. at the time. Also from napkin math, 4.2 million gallons of oil is something like 100000 barrels, so with modern prices oil itself would cost about 8 million.
"Yeah yeah, safety and the environment are nice and all but what about our PROFITS!?"
Didn’t the US geological survey dept approve the changes to the plan?
@brkbtjunkie Yeah, but they're sadly not immune to political pressure. Where money equals power, profit will always trump safety
@@foo219Especially when the boss puts deregulators in charge of depts that should be regulating. You can expect a lot more of these type of events over the next four years.
@markc17 Alas. I wish you well.
@@markc17knowing how Harris handled the southern border one should be thankful for the change in government.. it’s frightening to think of how many incompetent people are now overseeing this industry
So happy your channel is successful! While I watched the new video 500 other viewers did too. Even my bbf is now hooked on ws 😅
😀 thanks
I work in this industry and am not surprised by this one bit. Oil companies need regulations or they will absolutely go cheap every time!
Just finished a vid of yours, then this shows next second. Perfect.
Paul, when you speak, I lean back, close my eyes, and just listen to your sweet voice 🎶🎵
Thanks Beverly. Enjoy😀
When it comes to money versus the lives and livelihood of people, money almost always wins. That is the real tragedy and the sad reality.
I'm too young, born in 1965 to actually remember that incident but I was raised about a mile from.the beach South of Santa Barbara in Los Angeles next to LAX airport. My neighborhood is on the Northside of LAX and the airport is actually on the property of my neighborhood called Westchester /Playa Del Rey. The Southside of LAX is El Segundo which is the home of the second Chevron refinery built in California in the early 1900s creating the company town of El Segundo which is Spanish for The Second. The refinery has oil tankers that drop anchor about a quarter mile off the beach near Dockweiler State Beach and El Porto , there is an Edison power plant also on the beach at that location.
When the tankers drop anchor they have underwater pipe connections that they couple to and crude oil gets pumped through underwater pipeline to the refinery and sometimes refined gasoline or other products are pumped to the tankers for delivery elsewhere.
Growing up surfing and sailing and fishing and snorkeling I spent a lot of time in the water of the Santa Monica Bay. In the location of El Porto (45th St) is a great surfspot during good swells and during the 1970s and 1980s when you were in the water at that location we would constantly get thick black tar on our surfboards our shorts our feet and hands, it smelled very strong of gas in the water at times and the only way to get that tar off of you was paint thinner or gasoline. If it got on your surf trunks it was not likely to get out the stain completely. Many years and many articles of clothing and sandals and beach towels ruined by the leaking crude oil. It's still that way today. The connection and disconnection of the underwater pipeline spills crude every time and they do that a couple times every week.
The port and mission originally shipped cow hides. Before the Panama Canal the ships sailed around South America from Boston to pick up ship loads of dried cow hides for the east coast leather industry in Boston and New York.
Read "Two Years Before the Mast" for the story....
@0:54 I love the antique pickup truck. That being said it is very sad to hear about all the poor animals who suffered and lost their lives.
You always tell a great story, well done on your superb delivery. Defo my favourite channel.
😀👌🏻 thanks for that
I am from Southern California and I hadn't heard of this oil spill. Well made video.
There’s still a bunch of oil globs washing up on El Capitan state beach in Goleta to this day.
Yeah and you cannot walk on Arroyo Burro beach( Hendrys beach) without getting oil on your feet/shoes. Almost impossible to clean. God forbid you take your dog on a walk down those beaches.
Much of that oil is from natural seepage. There’s always been tarballs and natural gas into the ocean directly offshore. Especially along the Mesa
I grew up in SB in the 60s. Tar was washing up then. It's been washing up always. Do you know that the first real industry in SB was the harvesting of the natural asphalt that was above ground and visible.
Chumash Indians used to use beach tar to seal their canoes.
@@kamakaziozzie3038don’t let facts get in the way of some juicy misinformation!
Great job covering this event, i remember the beaches even a few years later having tar like chunks sprinkled around as they came inshore over time.
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Another brilliant video. No sensation, just facts. I've said this before yet I cannot work out why you don't have at least a million subs. When you look at the channels that have multi-million subs and put out garbage I have to wonder about the mental capacity of those subscribers.
On another note was this disaster ever investigated? Did money change hands? Some people should have ended up jail.
i really dig your channel. i look forward to each weeks videos. i know there is a pronunciation differential between our 2 cultures, and i don't mean to be a grammar demon. but Lyndon Johnson's first name in america is pronounced 'Lind-un'. when you say it at normal speed it sounds like 'Lind-in". thanks for the videos. most older people will know who you're talking about if you simply say LBJ.
👍🏻😀 thanks for that
He's really quite good at receiving pronunciation feedback; I noticed in this video UNOCAL got the standard pronunciation, where it had his intuitive pronunciation in earlier videos. And agree entirely - these are always high quality, succinct videos
Holy cow, 69 bar is 1000psi !! That's a lot of pressure.
About 1/2-1/3 of my hydraulic lines max pressure on my forklifr
Your seem like a decent chap, one who’s educated in our planet’s majority seascape environment,I’m a native of Liverpool myself and just a few years older, so I’m just curious as to what your thoughts are regarding the sad raft of petroleum disasters that have blighted our oceans and seas from San Francisco to the Caspian Sea and whilst I am impressed by your work here I am compelled to ask what you yourself feel regarding the seemingly endless deaths of our fellow man and how you envisage the future, ideally or abstract. Much respect Sir, Dave. 📚🇬🇧☘️
Hey Dave
I think I’m a pragmatist.
I’m not a fan of big oil. I think that often decisions are made in the name of profit with little thought to the consequences. That’s true of almost any large corporation run by committee. But chemicals can have such a huge impact on the environment and people.
On the other hand I drive a petrol car, I find the engineering incredible and I have a huge amount of respect for the people who work in oil, often putting their lives at risk to keep the economy turning.
We would not be as advanced as we are without it.
I think in the future, we will all probably need to make conscious decisions about our use of energy. Oil is a short term decision. It’s quick and easy. To change our behaviour we need to make decisions today that affect our future but they’re not as easy as oil. A bit like exercise. It sucks to do but we know it’s good for us.
In reality I think we need to use up all the oil so we run out of options and have to adopt new technology. How long that takes, I don’t know.
For now we rely on it.
@ my friend I am grateful for you taking the time to reply here and as someone who was born and raised on the banks of the river Mersey and the culture was cammell lairds shipyard and a city apart from the rest of England buoyed up by the Eireann diaspora and the fantastic mix of global people including the oldest Chinese community in Europe you can hopefully see the outlook we had rather than the inwards looking perspective that the majority of Britain has held onto over the years and after watching many of your uploads now I was compelled to ask you for a few of your ideas and your thoughts on a little bit more than what you offer us all in your wonderful work and well crafted posts and I’m not being nosey but I assume that you’re a native antipodean and that you seem to be a chap who would be quite inquisitive regarding your family history as indeed I am and so I guess I’m just trying to explain my curiosity and reasoning for being inquisitive. We lost our grandfather in #WW2 aboard the HMS Celendine in 1943 and our matriarchal grandfather served in the RAF and once again I am most grateful for your time responding to me and your channel is pretty special and I hope you continue posting on it for a long time to come. Best wishes from the city of Liverpool and keep shining your light brightly Sir. ⚽️🇬🇧☘️🙏📚🏴
Your content is great, but the AI you use is really distracting and hurts the credibility of the material. Good facts paired with fake photos is like eating prime rib with ketchup
As a geophysicist I'm finding it fascinating hearing these stories of the industry's less than reputable past. Thanks for these videos!
So thought provoking on so many fronts:
- the tragic toll on wildlife, environment and local economy,
- the failure of regulatory oversight, and how those regulations are designed,
- and not least, the technical and engineering aspects of predicting overpressure, then preventing, and ultimately containing, the blowout...
We should be able to learn so much, yet the lessons never seem to stick.
thanks for not asking for likes&subs in every video. gonna listen to this one before bed
Good point!
🤣 please enjoy your day. 👌🏻
As the old saying goes "Incidents don't happen in a vacuum, they are the culmination of multiple bad decisions". At multiple points a single person could have stopped the chain, including the Gov whose job it was, and instead they subverted their own regulations to prevent this!!!!!! IMO the oil company should also have lost their lease rights (in addition to fine and cleanup costs), and the geological survey should have lost the ability to allow exceptions.
That would leave the industry at the whim of crooked government.
The "Deep Horizon" disaster was approved of by myriad regulators. Violations were OK'd and even encouraged by various regulators, not just one guy. Then when the well blew out, the regulators cited the offences they had approved earlier.
Do not expect government agents to be truthful.
Since the leases were under federal authority I'm not sure the Givernor could have stopped this.
@susangrulkowski2710 What? Gov is short for the government, as in fed gov, not the governor
"Let's just ignore all the safety regulations, what's the worst that could happen"
3:07 LBJ is rolling in his grave after that slaughter of his name.
I lived I. Redondo beach, (about 100 miles away from Santa Barbara) in 1999 and I have three rocks I picked up off the beach and all of them, I’d later found, had spots of tar and crude on them. To this day you can still smell it on the rocks as well and see it.
I remember in the back in the 90s me and my family went to the Santa Barbara beach and I got a glob of crude oil that had washed up on the beach stuck to my foot, it took several days to get it all off.
Use vegetable oil next time. You won't walk a So Cal beach very far without getting petroleum on your feet. There's hundreds of natural seeps on and offshore.
mineral oil softens it, messy cleanup for sure
0:34 "Annexed" is a better term than "ceded" to describe the California Annexation 🤔
Was the entire usa not won, by mass migration leading to mass invasion?
They like to use the soft language, and call it expeditionary forces or Pilgrims.
They were invaders
Semantics, if you dont fight to hold the territory then you ceed it by default
“Hey! I’ve got a great idea! Why don’t we just cut a few corners? Nothing bad ever happens when companies do that…”. Always slap the guy who suggests this…. I always look back and wonder: “What were they thinking?” The really crazy part is that, someone actually AGREED WITH THEM!!! SMH….
greed trumps good morals
Love the story telling mixed with relevant footage
Grew up in L.A. as a kid in late 60's early 70's and when I went to the beach my feet got covered in tar..old timers said it was always that way because of oil seeping up from the ground out at sea. After they started drilling for the oil beach sand cleaned up...
It's a good thing we as a society are so reactionary or we might need regulations to control this kind of malpractice. Oh, right, we do have them but so many seem to ignore them or have them removed for profit. Profit. Thanks, mate. Take care, fair winds
another banger video! sadly i knew greed would have something to do with it. These oil companies got access to a life time deal for cheap and they still want to cut corners. I really could see know legit reason why they thought it would be a good idea to drill in short in the first place.
I lived just North of Santa Barbara in Santa Maria when this happened. It changed the way a lot of people think.
always takes a tradegy
Well told as usual. Interesting too!👏🇨🇮
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What do they say, safety regulations are written in blood? In an oligarchy regulators are captured and obey the oligarchs that don't care about the blood of proletarians. Thank you, excellent as always.
well said
Seems like if the regulations for the casings were followed, this likely wouldn’t have happened.
if only the video went into that
@@mike_w-tw6jd It did, in the end.
So, was the gimboid from the Geological Survey found guilty and punished? I’ll wait……..
When money, influence and power means more to people then health and safety.
Last time Trump was elected he turned it up. Question is, when will the next disaster happen, because it needs to feed a war?
Scary future ahead perhaps
0:47 that doesn’t look like the 1870s to me 😂
I’ve lived in SB since 1968 and we still see the effects.
Your seeing the effects of natural seepage, not the effects of this particular oil spill. See: Coal oil Point.
@ I realize that. You can see gas coming up from the sea floor when you go out to platform Holly. Kinda cool.
Fun fact - one of the platforms was used in the movie Face/Off as the exterior of the magnetic boot prison.
This is an example of what can happen when rich commercial entities capture regulatory bodies.
Did you mention "beach tar," blobs if sticky black stuff in the sand left from oul spills? My family would go to the beach in Santa Monica, CA from 1970-1972 and our beach blanket (an old bedspread) had hardedened, black tar if various spots.
Hi. Really enjoy your work. Just curious, why did you delete your first and second videos on the Nordstream pipeline sabotage?
Hey. The video was based on a story that’s not proven, a conspiracy. I thought the research on the diving techniques was interesting so I made a story. It was badly received because the audience want factually accurate stories.
I tried to repost to clarify that it’s just a story and that the diving interested me but that didn’t fly.
I don’t want the audience to feel like they can’t trust my videos. It’s not a conspiracy channel so it wasn’t aligned with the channel and I took it down.
And you ask yourself, would you want someone that wants to deregulate industry and 'drill baby drill!' In charge of that 'sweet liquid gold', just saying regulation isnt a bad thing... And wow.. our little brains have a hard time understanding the size of geological formations.. they literally cracked the earth open
And I bet that you think that items just magically appear, are transported through the air to get to your market. It never enters your very thick noggin that the tractor that harvests the plants runs on fuel. That the truck that transports these vegies/fruits to market runs on fuel. And then your party puts a stranglehold on the fuel industry, making fuel and transport more expensive, and you think that grocers are gouging you? How old are you? 5?
TRUMP DRILL BABY, DRILL! They say "People get the government they deserve."😮 🇮🇪
You must of missed the part where the us dept of geological survey approved the change in the plans for the casing size and depth.
@@JohnEltinyup, couldn’t be more excited.
markrix asks "And you ask yourself, would you want someone that wants to deregulate industry and 'drill baby drill!' In charge of that 'sweet liquid gold', just saying regulation isnt a bad thing?"
Well, he said he has a little brain. That explains why he thinks grocers are price gouging and doesn't understand that grocery stores have a profit margin of only 1%. Markrix doesn't understand that the tractor that reaps yummy veggies from the earth runs on fossil fuel, as does the truck that transports the veggies to the processing plant and the truck that transports the veggies from the plant to the market. Since a senile old fool declared war on the fossil fuel industry, causing prices to go up has absolutely nothing to do with the prices of veggies.
Yeah, keep drinking the kool aid markrix.
Well done piece
Another fantastic telling of a horrific mess-up in human history. But did I miss something, what was the reason for the conductor and surface casing not to be installed??
Shit I was only 7 years old, love the history!
All this and the one in the gulf a few years ago make solar and /or wind look good
You make great videos👌🏻
That picture captioned 1870’s definitely is about a hundred years off. 0:45
Incredible video
👍🏻 thanks
The whole Santa Barbara coastline and further south still to this day has that sickening crude oil stench - over half a century later.
But we humans keep on sickening other parts of our planet with these big events every few years. But hey, let's maintain and grow our modern "way of life".
And i bet NO ONE was ever held accountable from the corporation and politicians .. but if i poured a quart of oil into the sea i would be arrested and charged for environmental terrorism...
3:05 I had no idea there was a president named "Lyden Johnson." As a bigger insult the narrator says this over the correct name "Lyndon Johnson" appearing on screen. Even with the narrator getting this wrong it could have been easily corrected in editing.
What strikes me most is the carelessness of the whole operation: safety margins are cut to or even well below the bare minimum and yet signed off on without seemingly much problems. The scary thing is that all these decades later companies and governments still seem to have learned nothing from accidents in the past and still put money (read: greed) before safety wherever they think they can get away with it, consequences be damned.
It's this "who cares about tomorrow as long as the dollars pour in today" attitude that ruins economies, societies and the environment, just so a select group of already very rich people can become even richer at all costs.
short term thinking, result of deregulation
You know that saying about “I’m from the government and I am here to help “?
Replace “government” with any of these greedy companies and it starts to ring true.
Did anything happen to the idiots that okayed the companies' ignoring regulations? They all belong in jail!
I went to UCSB,every apartment and dorm had black oil stains on floors and carpet, the beach’s had black globs,the oil smell was everywhere,that was in 1987,I’m sure the oil is still there….
They had drilling platforms in 1896🤯
They actually thought they could gaslight the authorities
"There will always be a moon over Marin..."
Thats why they are all crazy now?
Every Safety course .
Safety 1st .
Real world .
1st profit .
2nd profit
3rd . Safety .
4th take money and run
Love the b roll of a Nissan frontier
Regulations? What regulations? I'm sure it'll be fine, what's the worst that could happen...
And how much money did they save by leaving out the casing string.?
Nice photo of the 12 Apostles
Photo at 12:38 is on Oahu, not Rincon break.
Lydon?? FFS.
I used to think that if we could find a different business for oil companies to do that provided them with equal profits they would change in heart beat because they just want to make money not destroy the planet however when hearing this story as well as many others are making me think that that idea is not true!
Get ready for a lot more deregulation in the upcoming year.
Amazing HOW big OIL and GAS were allowed to ride roughshod over the Safety and Environmental concerns... And when confronted about it their patheic and sick response " No Problem, everything is (>NOT>) OK... And we have it under control... Under Control...??? What kind of Control were they thinking or describing and how were they using that idea???
Can we take a moment to realize that we have destroyed every beach and small businesses over greed..
The small fishermen business has been destroyed.
Making it easier for corporate companies to come in fishing the same grounds.
B.P. Exon Valdez.
Deep Water Horizon
And so on…
It’s never the same
And people are never made right again
Humans are not responsible enough to be trusted with matters this great .
On the upside the extra funding was able to keep the Vietnam war going so at least we had that going.
Excuse me, it became part of what
0.55 black n white photo with a 4x4 2010s 4 door light truck/ute..... ummmmm yea no
at 3:23 - what does a picture of President Johnson signing the Civil Right act have to do with drilling for oil ???
Also the seven apostles on the Australian coast
Cue Donald going "Drill baby drill!" Woohoo! Glad to see humanity learning nothing from its past mistakes.
You would rather we be dependent on foreign oil and gas? How did you like the high gasoline prices these last four years? Are you aware that the day after Trump got elected, Germany declared they are going to buy American oil?? No, probably not....
@@s.marcus3669They, and the rest of Europe, have already been buying a lot of our oil the past few years.
There are other ways to become less dependent on foreign oil besides producing more of our own.
Just because some greedy idiots let this happen, doesn't mean we can't extract oil and gas safely. Same goes for nuclear energy generation.
Thanks for your video! I hate to "go there," but everyone needs to be aware...the administration that allowed this to happen & loosened the mandates for Union Oil was a *Republican* administration. I know it was a long time ago, but one thing is for sure...Repubs love their oil & lobbyists...that much hasn't changed. Vote with your conscience this election.
@@Corinne-v9c that thing you wrote this comment on, what do you think it is made from? What do you think powered the extraction and refining of the metals needed? Sanctimonious hypocrisy.
@@Me-zo8yc I knew I'd probably get a nasty comment from a Trumpie...& that's ok. I'm well aware of how electricity is produced...& where I live it's a hydroelectric dam. There are also other ways to produce electricity & have transportation other than gas/petroleum...but someone as incurious as Trump & his supporters could actually *care less* about new tech. And that's a real shame. He even says windmills cause cancer...how stupid is that?! I'm not sanctimonious...I just want leaders who aren't incurious & look to the future, not the past.
@@Me-zo8ycif only those with power didn't use it selfishly
75 mi.² of oil on the surface is a massive disaster. My question is was this preventable?😮
That makes one want to write...
Did you not pay attention, when watching the video?
Watch it again...
Or.. to help you.
They cut corners on safety and regulations. Then bad stuff happens, or the risk of it multiplies exponentially.
Exactly what happened with so many other oil/gas related accidents and catastrophic events.
A recommendation. Have a look a chinese tofu dreg, and see exactly what happens when you cut corners to the extreme. With extreme results
And they have the audacity to be thankful for surviving the breakdown.
Your story telling as always is great but your choice of photos to captions on this video was terrible, some of the photos used were 60-70 years from the timeline you were speaking of. Just a note still enjoy your content
.76 of a meter 30 inches of pipe thickness. I think you mean 76 mm
pipe diameter, pipe thickness, it's all the same 😅
whos dumb idea was it to use gold as money....its hard to find........should be rocks...everyone can find those lol
Get ready for this.
Gold is a rock
@@fastinradfordable lol thats debatable
I'm not sure you understand how money works.
First ;) love ya work
This is my first video from your channel and it's nice to see excellent narration when most can barely speak in an articulate fashion. I have one suggestion and one small correction: the suggestion is to title it as: "The 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Drilling Disaster"
The correction is in the pronunciation of then-President Johnson's first (and very unusual) name of "Lyndon"; it's spoken as "Lin-dun" and not "Line-dun".
Fun fact: President Johnson was one of the most racist, sexist and corrupt of the Democrat Presidents, setting a precedent which has been approached and nearly matched by the last two Democrats to occupy the White House....
can you name any racist comments from trump's campaign?
@@mike_w-tw6jd Nope.
Next question?
Dam .
Tarballs