'Not for public': the oil spill may be getting much worse

[seemslikeadream]

[elfismiles]

Gulf oil spill: Boat captain, despondent over spill, commits suicide
June 23, 2010 | 11:51 am

William Allen Kruse, 55, a charter boat captain recently hired by BP as a vessel of opportunity out of Gulf Shores, Ala., died Wednesday morning before 7:30 a.m. of a gunshot to the head, likely self-inflicted, authorities said.

"He had been quite despondent about the oil crisis," said Stan Vinson, coroner for Baldwin County, which includes Gulf Shores.

Kruse, who lived with his family in nearby Foley, Ala., reported to work Wednesday morning as usual at the Gulf Shores Marina on Fort Morgan Road in Gulf Shores, Vinson said. He met up with his two deckhands at his boat, The Rookie. One of the deckhands later told Vinson that Kruse seemed his usual self, sending them to fetch ice while he pulled the boat around to the gas pumps.

As the deckhands walked off to get ice, they heard what sounded like a firecracker, Vinson said. They turned around but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. So they proceeded to gather the ice and wait for Kruse at the pumps. "He never showed," Vinson said.



After waiting a while, the deckhands returned to the boat, which was moored where they had left it, Vinson said. They went aboard and found Kruse at the captain's bridge above the wheelhouse, Vinson said. He had been shot in the head. A Glock handgun was later recovered from the scene, and investigators do not suspect foul play, Vinson said.

Vinson said Kruse was in good health, did not suffer from any mental illness and was not taking psychotropic medications.

But he said it's not surprising the oil spill had weighed heavily on his mind, as it has on many local fishermen no longer able to support themselves with deep-sea sport fishing trips for marlin and the like, Vinson said.

"All the waters are closed. There's no charter business anymore. You go out on some of the beaches now, with the oil, you can't even get in the water," Vinson said. "It's really crippled the tourism and fishing industry here."

Vinson's office was to perform an autopsy Wednesday, and the Gulf Shores Police Department is still investigating. Det. Justin Clopton did not return calls.

Kruse's family was notified by Wednesday afternoon, Vinson said, and his deckhands were sent home for the day.

-- Molly Hennessy-Fiske

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greensp ... icide.html

[Fixx]

They are replacing the cap now or attempting to anyway.

[DoYouEverWonder]

Thanks justdrew!

BTW: They're trying to put the top hat back on again.

[82_28]

Mucho robot action down there right now!

[2012 Countdown]

Edit- already posted -apologies.

[2012 Countdown]

they are lowering the chapeau ....ok now i dunno. The claw machines are at work though. I hope they don't run out of quarters.

[82_28]

they are lowering the chapeau ....ok now i dunno. The claw machines are at work though. I hope they don't run out of quarters.

Got it down on. I spent an hour watching this. Had to see it through!

[anothershamus]

Raining oil!

If you thought you were safe if you were inland, think again.

I'm not buying that. I've seen that many times, oil on a street. Most likely it's oil that drained out of some leaky old car. People are panicking.

Hurricanes, though, will indeed hurl the oil many miles inland.

This seems like a bit much of a rainbow for somewhere that gets a lot of rain. It usually washes away not produces more!

[2012 Countdown]

Deepwater Horizon commission gets executive director, subpoena power

The House of Representatives today also voted 420-1 to give the panel the power to subpoena documents and compel testimony from reluctant witnesses as part of its probe.

http://blogs.chron.com/newswatchenergy/ ... horiz.html

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The lone no vote? RON PAUL
I was holding out hoping/thinking Ron Paul was better than his son, but no.

[Simulist]

Ron Paul is, was, and may always be — a liar.

This vote also indicates that he is a loyal friend of the "Greedy Oil People" (GOP).

[Nordic]

Raining oil!

If you thought you were safe if you were inland, think again.

I'm not buying that. I've seen that many times, oil on a street. Most likely it's oil that drained out of some leaky old car. People are panicking.

Hurricanes, though, will indeed hurl the oil many miles inland.

This seems like a bit much of a rainbow for somewhere that gets a lot of rain. It usually washes away not produces more!

The most likely explanation for this is oil from a car's crankcase.

That's the only way I know how to put it.

Just today I noticed an enormous puddle of oil here in Los Angeles that came out of a car as I was riding my bike around.

Do I know that's what it is? No, but it's the most likely explanation.

[Laodicean]

[ninakat]

Laodicean, that has to be extremely bad, whatever it is. "God only knows"? I doubt that seriously -- it's likely BP and the Obama administration know.

I'm trying my best to keep from being paranoid, but with all this obfuscation and inaction from all the highest levels of authority, I'm beginning to believe the situation may well be out of hand, beyond redemption. If that is indeed the case, would they tell us? Hell no.

My preps are going back into high gear again, as I have a bad feeling about this. Isn't the possibility of mass panic in the southern states becoming more imminent each day?

[justdrew]

I don't know, was that filmed by someone who was used to being around that beach? if that was around tide coming in time, it could just be air bubbling up from the previously exposed dry sand and just the crashing of the wave mixes in a lot of air that can bubble around. not necessarily strange.