Hiding The Truth

The ABC reports on BP turning down outside expertise to deal with their problem in the Gulf: Oil spill ‘morons’ turn down Avatar director’s help

Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron says BP has turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“Over the last few weeks I’ve watched – as we all have – with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing,” Cameron told the All Things Digital conference.

Cameron, director of Avatar, Titanic and The Abyss, has worked extensively with robot submarines and is considered an expert in underwater filming. He did not say explicitly who he meant when he referred to “those morons”.
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“The government really needs to have its own independent ability to go down there and image the site, survey the site and do its own investigation,” he said.

“Because if you’re not monitoring it independently, you’re asking the perpetrator to give you the video of the crime scene.”

Cameron has connections to the real experts in deep water vehicles, but he is not subject to anyone’s control, and will say what he thinks. If he sees something, the public will see it.

Cameron isn’t the only deep water expert BP has turned down. After requesting information from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, BP turned down their offer to send their submersible, Alvin, to help with the problem.

I’m more than a little sick of listening to the excuse that no one knows anything about working at these depths, after BP turns down offers of assistance from people who work at even greater depths.