ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - Ships relaying the images and sounds from broken oil BP held out well Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie blew straight up the spill site, threatening to force a complete evacuation would leave engineers puzzled about whether a cap on property held geyser.
Communicating Vessels deep sea robots equipped with cameras and seismic would be among the last to escape and get out of bad weather, if possible retirement from the Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen.
"If conditions permit, they will remain through the storm passed," Allen said in New Orleans.
Bonnie made landfall south of Miami on Friday morning to a tropical storm with top sustained winds lower than 40 mph. It broke apart while crossing Florida and was a tropical depression as it moves through the Gulf, but forecasters expected it to strengthen slightly and roll over the spill site around noon Saturday.
Ships carrying robots would be among the first to go if the forecast force them to leave, but they could be gone for two days, said Allen, head of overthrowing the federal government.
The mechanical plug which contained primarily oil for eight days will be left closed, "Allen said, but if the robots are rolled in, the only way to know about employees of the CAP is not the case for satellite and aerial views after the storm passes View the pooling of oil to the surface.
audio surveillance equipment left behind BP could say that the well is stable, but scientists will not be able to listen to the recordings until the ships return to the region.
Allen expressed his confidence growing experimental cap, despite a few leaks initially worried that the government experts. Scientists say that even a storm should not affect the form, nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
"There is almost no chance that it will have an impact on the wellhead or the CAP, since it is just about 5000 feet deep and even bigger waves will not get that far," said said Don Van Nieuwenhuis, director of professional geoscience programs at the University of Houston.
The crews of other vessels, including a tunnel drilling intended to kill the flow of crude oil for good, spent Friday in transporting their gear and passing out of the storm. The workers were pulling a mile of pipe in sections 40 to 60 feet on the deck of the rig so they can put away the water, probably at the southwestern flank of the storm.
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'Preservation of life and preservation of equipment is our greatest priorities,' said Allen, a veteran of the rescue mission of the Coast Guard after Hurricane Katrina.
Shell Oil has also been evacuating its operations in the Gulf, moving more than 600 workers and stop production at all but a well-sheltered safely in Mobile Bay.
On the site of a spill, the water does not look thick viscous tar. But the oil is still there under the surface, the color of the hulls of vessels around her car.
Strong winds and waves could help break the oil later, but a storm surge could also grow in areas sensitive marshes along the coast.
"These are two opposite consequences and we are ready to move aggressively attack and this time the threat is gone," Allen said.
Bad weather has stalled progress toward the killing of the property and may be delayed until mid-August, the sealing of the tree nearly two-mile underground with mud and cement, said Allen and BP . BP had hoped to end the drilling of a tunnel emergency Friday, but had to plug Wednesday to prepare for the storm.
On the tiny island resort of Grand Isle, off the southeast Louisiana coastworkers packed the oil removal operation, the demolition of tents, stow boom boom loading clean and soaked in oil in large containers so it will not pollute the area if the storm causes flooding.
"Part of our plan is to remove all weather equipment from the beach," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmd. Nan Bangs. "We do not want to take a chance on something damaging the mound of sand or houses along there. "
Before the cap was set and closed a week ago, well broken spewed 94 million to 184 million gallons in the Gulf after the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon bench exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.
BP is likely to be sentenced to a fine per gallon spill, determine who might well be difficult. Concentrations of hydrocarbons submarines at least doubled last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Researchers at the University of South Florida announced Friday that it had the first scientific proof that two plumes of oil giants in the Gulf area were from the same broken. BP initially denied the existence of feathers. http://jodnet.blogspot.com
Dishneau reported from New Orleans, Weber, aboard the Coast Guard decisive. Associated Press writers Mary Foster in Grand Isle, Louisiana, Jason Dearen in San Francisco and Matthew Brown in Billings, Mont., Contributing to this report.
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