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firstdown · 07-15-2010, 05:17 PM

A good customer of mine who is a diver and worked in the gulf after Katrina as a supervisor was just in my office and I asked him why this was so hard. First he said the pressure coming out of that pipe is Hugh and thats a major issue just by itself. Then you have the ocean pressure that deep is 2,225 pounds per sq. inch so the oil flow is greater then that. He said when you combined the two along with the 5000 ft down it not easy to solve the problem.

The formula for figuring the ocean pressure is .445 x (how many feet down)= Per Sq inch
So if your diving at ten feet .445 X 10 = 4.45 pounds per sq inch. of pressure

07-15-2010, 05:17 PM	#14
firstdown Living Legend Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: chesapeake, va Age: 62 Posts: 15,817	Re: BP caps spill A good customer of mine who is a diver and worked in the gulf after Katrina as a supervisor was just in my office and I asked him why this was so hard. First he said the pressure coming out of that pipe is Hugh and thats a major issue just by itself. Then you have the ocean pressure that deep is 2,225 pounds per sq. inch so the oil flow is greater then that. He said when you combined the two along with the 5000 ft down it not easy to solve the problem. The formula for figuring the ocean pressure is .445 x (how many feet down)= Per Sq inch So if your diving at ten feet .445 X 10 = 4.45 pounds per sq inch. of pressure