On Board The Develoment Driller II Relief Well Rig
On Saturday August 7th 2010 I was assigned to probably my coolest assignment since I began coverage of the oil spill for my client Bloomberg. It took over a month of trying but I finally was able to schedule a seat on a helicopter through the Joint Information Center in New Orleans to go out [...]
The Source From On Board – USCG Cutter Decisive
I arrived at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport around 12:15pm on July 30th for my assignment with Bloomberg News, for the next 24 hours I would be embedded with with the crew on board the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive out near the source of the BP Deep Water Horizon well site. My flight on a [...]
Another Look at the Oil Spill Coverage
Once again I have fallen a bit behind in updating my blog, but it is only because I’ve been incredibly busy, and just so you no coverage limits mentioned in my last entry have been removed so it was back to work. Below check out some select images of what I’ve been up to in [...]
Oil Spill by land, sea, air and a visit with Kevin Costner
Ok, I know the title of my blog entry today may have you confused, but for this blog entry I am combining recent spill coverage all into one entry. Normally I post a blog following each assignment, unfortunately I have not had the time and have been forced to neglect my regular updates. So since [...]
Oil Blankets Grand Isle Beach, Cleanup Begins Again
Wow it’s been a busy week, and I barely have time to sleep let alone blog, I’ve been adding links from publications of one of my recent assignment through Bloomberg News, as I drove out to Grand Isle for a second time, and arrived to see heavy oil had impacted the closed beaches. I knew [...]
From Above the Spill
On Tuesday I covered by sea, on Wednesday I took to the air with the U.S. Coast Guard in a HC-144A Coast Guard airplane with along with a large group of journalist and photographers to get a birds eye view of the storm. Early in the day things did not look good, severe storms were [...]
