posted on Nov, 14 2010 @ 07:54 PM
reply to post by StealthyKat
This is a long video and there was several series of "bursts" of clouds with varying colours. You will notice that the white particles are flying at
different velocities, horizontally straight to the camera and then falling down or disappearing.
Like I said before the timing is important as well as the duration. For a natural explosion to last so long the fluid built-up must be very large at
shallow depth since the flow would be too limited through the faults due to low permeability (well high compared to normal rocks but cannot beat a
high pressure hose for instance). But at the same time for such a wide and large accumulation of fluid, the "bursts" would have happened much earlier
-- like those craters that we saw earlier. It would explode once and then continue to spew significantly lower force or just at leaking level.
I hope you are following the explanation because this is where I want the readers to understand the "force and supply equation of things". For such
large continuous supply of fluid (let call it that) you need a large container to hold it first with sufficient strength to hold it. But in nature
where there is no control valve, the container (seafloor crust or top layer) has to hold it until it burst like a balloon. So that is the difference.
So in all probability the source must be man-made and the supply of fluid through a high pressure hose. In this video it cannot be a series of
explosions (either induced chemically or electrically or otherwise) because in between the bursts you do get the white particles (less) flying
horizontally towards the camera and moving clouds more slowly away from the source. Each explosion would also cause the both particles and clouds to
radiate away from the point source but we do not see the pattern here.
Having qualified all the above, it is most likely that it was high pressure grouting in process. The recording ROV at a safe distance monitoring the
whole process. Initially the grout would hold until breaking point and burst. As more grout built up and block the exit points, the pressure built up
again and occasionally burst until the control gauges showed satisfactorily pressure had built up and no more bursting.
Actually because the fractures are interconnected, the pressure would build up elsewhere and the whole process repeats itself. Hope this explanation
suffice Skat. Excuse the grammar and sentencing as I am travelling and have limited time on the internet.
edit on 14-11-2010 by BK Lim because: (no reason given)