Methane in the Gulf - Non-Wakeboarding Discussion

(mc_x15) · (mc_x15) **Join Date: Jul 2008** 07-15-2010, 10:17 AM

Just stumbled across this article. Not sure what to think of it. Pretty crazy stuff.

http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-...-killing-event

(jon43) · (jon43) **Join Date: Aug 2003** 07-15-2010, 10:56 AM

wow carpe diem
but I hope not I will be in slidel next week

(barry) · (barry) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 07-15-2010, 11:48 AM

Seriously?

(trace) · (trace) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 07-15-2010, 3:25 PM

I'm no geologist, but it's hard to see how a relatively small hole thru 5000' of seafloor could initiate a geologic event. Especially since, if anything, the pressure is actually being relieved to some small degree.

(wakeboardingdad) · 3:56 PM

I think I'm burying my head in the proverbial sand on this one. If it's true, there is nothing anyone can do.

(trace) · (trace) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 07-15-2010, 7:22 PM

Happened across this on Yahoo...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot...ne-eruption-no

(JJ) · (JJ) **Join Date: Feb 2010** 07-15-2010, 9:19 PM

I think there is some truth to it.

http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/...aneGeology.pdf

(brettw) · (brettw) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 07-16-2010, 8:28 AM

I was thinking of that same article that Trace posted I just read the other day. I guess some of these doomsday theories could be true, but you need to be careful who you listen to and take in all the sources.

“I wouldn’t believe that at all," Gregory Stone, director of the Louisiana State University Coastal Studies Institute, told us. "There’s a lot of press out there in regards to this event that is just inaccurate. We’ve got some of the best scientists in the world here, and we’re not concerned about that scenario at all."

(wakeboardingdad)

Seriously, if it is true, what are you going to do differently? It is almost like the 2012 theory. If it's true, I should be taking vacations and buying everything I want on balloon notes and stop paying everything off as fast as I can.