I’m yet another one of blancolirio’s subscribers making a small detour here 😎 Flying is my second love... I'll be back...

Good job Wolfe! Where’s the oil dispersal aircraft? Do they not do that anymore?

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Thank you so much for the birds eye view. This is so sad....

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I found this video on a Surfline email. Thanks for doing this and NOT making a huge political statement in one direction or the other, just staying neutral and reporting what IS visible and known. We're super bummed about this oil spill situation, it's just another sad event for us in 2021. We live in south L.A., and my teen son surfs HB Pier more than anywhere else. My tween daughter and I were scheduled for a homeschool nature field trip to the marsh at Bolsa Chica next week to see the birds of all things. Obviously neither of them is getting to do either activity right now. I'll be interested to see your video about the container ship situation. We can see them every day from our front porch. Everyone is throwing blame at people who don't appear to be the correct ones to be blamed. Excited to show my kids some of your videos later.

Excellent job. ...editing, photography, story line and production. Very professional. Thanks.

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Bryan, as always... extremely well filmed and produced! Were you able to fly out near the oil rig to observe what (supposedly) is a big cleanup effort? Thanks! Wayne

Checking out this channel from Blancolirio..Great content.

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today it is being reported that the oil pipe appears to have been caught by an anchor and dragged til it ruptured.

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When I was a child oil seeping out of the ocean floor all along California's southern Coastline was easy to find. My Grandmother had a cluster of tar it had a lot shells embedded in it, (heavy crude) that she found when on the beach she was 7 years old. About 1895. My mother showed it to me. No one in my family was in the oil business. My mother told me the oil drilling had reduced the amount of on the Beach. Another natural seep is in LaBrea if you doubt the validity look that up.

Nice video! Great footage and reporting. Thanks

There has always been oil bloops on the coast for decades. Once it gets on you it’s hard to get off.

Great video. Shows you how minor this spill really is. In a few months due to weathering, evaporation, oxidation, biodegradation, and emulsification, you won't even know this happened.

I understand that it may have been a large container vessel dragging anchor or anchors that may have ruptured or broken an oil rigs, oil line to shore? I worked on surveys around the UK and Ireland, during the oil/gas boom, we usually berried the pipes in sand with a cradle over the pipe with tubes vertically either side forcing air either side so the pipe sunk under the sand so it was was buried at a calculated safe depth. On bedrock, rocks were placed either side to prevent such a instance of dragging anchors. But a few years ago a ship deliberately tried to snag the gas pipe link between Norway and UK, the 9in pipes pressure had to be reduced. The pipe was in a cradle bridge across on of the deep trenches between Noway and the UK. We used to have the same problem with ships mainly leaving Portsmouth and Southampton deliberatly discharging oil on our South Coasts untill this regular pratice was banned. Leaving usually sticky tar on the sand and pebbles which got on our cloths. Hope the pumping has stopped and it's fixed asap. As it not only spoils the coastline but also marine/coastal wildlife and plants.

Look at the population density right around that Huntington Beach Pier.

I’m pretty sure without oil, you would be grounded.

Great flyover from Warner to Goldenwest. If I may say, the water quality there has been dubious since drilling began. HB Realtors love to push product. But having once lived and worked there, I'm sorry, the coast from Long Beach to Laguna has been a stinky polluted mess for decades. So now it is just tragically but officially worse...

Thank you for this, your efforts are greatly appreciated. Appropriate audio track too boot, touché!

Great job - thanks for sharing. What a mess that was indeed.

That’s looking pretty bad..thanks for covering

The 3000 barrels is a Maximum number, not an estimate of the actual.

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Love the video

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Coming over to your channel at the request of Juan Browne “blancolirio” channel. Great reporting... Thank you sir.

Good call on the site Juan.

..."and the water turned into blood.." Thank you for sharing. It was kind of hard to tell at first, but if you really look you can see it. Might help if you could zoom in on it a little. Hope by this time there are concerted efforts to clean it up. Safe travels -

Thanks for this flyover footage. It helps give context to the issue. I was headed to the air show today when I found out about the oil spill. I am just heartbroken to think of the ecological damage being inflicted upon our shoreline right now.

Yo' corniwolf, Thanks for making this awesome video. Like others have said, it really adds context. I can't wait to see the video you have coming out about the supply chain. Here in Texas, going to walmart and not being able to find what you want is getting really lame.

The population density in Huntington Beach is staggering.

Went there August 30th couple months ago from Phoenix Arizona , such beautiful place dam

Liked and Subscribed. Thanks for the referral Blanco!

*Thanks! Juan* sent me here to see ... oh w0w _the view._ Don't see Floating 'Barriers' known to be used. ??? In the '90's ('95?) I sailed out on my board in Fla. Golf; Hours pass, I come upon floating Plywood, i thought, ... No, it was a Huge Turtle with Lovely Large Eyes. 8 ) Exciting! . ... but not when heading back shore, sailing into Oil.

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Could have used a narrative telling what we're seeing, I assume the darker water is oily water? Couldn't see effect on the beach because of altitude, a much lower pass might make the damage more evident - but thanks for posting!

Please do a walkaround video of the N244ER - What are the controls you use, what switch is used for what. Am just curious to know the operations of the Tiger :)

I'm another blancolirio subscriber making a detour here. Not much of a detour for me geographically, though.

My uncle was an head driller when he was alive. He died back in 2003. He was the head driller on most not all of the ones in the Gulf of Mexico. While he was alive. He never ever had one single spill. This just did not happen. This was premeditated.

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Thats waaaay more oil than they are saying!!

Hey Wolf? Do you know who owns or operates those rigs off the beach there? .Thanks!!

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can you just fly anywhere (excluding off limits airspace of course) or do you need to file a flight plan and stick to it?

Media reports are saying it was caused by a ship anchor hitting an underwater pipe. Why are so many ships anchored off the coast waiting to unload at the port?

Is KTOA your home field? It's mine and so of course looking through your vids I see we've hit up a lot of the same spots! Jealous of some of your longer trips though for sure.

Southern California is so beautiful from the air.

it didn't appear that there is a recovery in process. Ie: oil capture around the oil slick.

Man, that just sucks. I saw this reported on the local news this morning. Over 130,000 gallons spilled from a pipe leak. Crazy. I hope the company that owns it will be held responsible. Fly safe and fly often, my friend.

Did you buy your plane with that paint job or did you get it customized? It looks sick!

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Hey! Great job getting footage of the spill! Is it possible if i can use your footage and include your name in the credits? ( Just for a high school project)

Wolficorn, thank you for burning your fuel and air hours showing us what nobody else really wants to put in perspective. As you said, there are risks to offshore drilling but mega-big bucks in the pockets of politicians, oil company executives and stockholders (sadly that means many of our pension plans!). I'm another Juan Browne referral. Buy him a cup of Joe when you see him ;-)

Another blancolirio guy here. Funny thing is that when I heard JB mention this strange new word "Wolficorn", my very first thought was " will this channel have someting to do with Probably Cause landing in a corn field ?"

I learned to fly at Torrance in 1975. Good times.

Im in tears.. Ive never been affected like this.. So sad... And none will be held accountable.. I kept thinking.. Its just one spot and expecting you to fly past it.. But it just kept going.. And going.. How will we ever fix this and become seprated from such a high reliance on oil? We are too far in no? Itd be a dream.. But just not possible I think..

Watched your video because Juan suggested it. Is that the whole spill?

Nice job. It would be great to see it when the sun was higher in the sky, and maybe a pass going the other way, but then again, I'm a nitpicking jackass. :) Thanks for showing us this tragedy.

One or more of those ships out there dragged their anchor chain over the pipeline which ruptured it. As I remember, the oil company ended up being at fault via the courts. Malarkey!

Oiled seal makes the best merkins

Bryan, I met you a few weeks ago…zoom Cessna driver

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Depressing.

Thank you for your efforts. Hopefully scientist will figure out cold fusion soon before the Earth shakes us off like a bad case of fleas.

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This is a tragedy.

Why has nobody ever invented a pumping system where a load of pipes can be chucked into the water to suck all the water and oil up and then separate the oil in some kind of filter and then just pump the water back into the sea ? I know it probably wouldn't be easy but fuck, it might help at least a bit.

Funny how you don't hear anything about this in the news... This is the first I heard of it... So disgusting all this for some money

Day 8 people are surfing on the north side of the pier. If it was as bad as it looks on your video they wouldn't be surfing there now. Day two or three I was surfing at Bolsa Chica and the water was great. All of my walking out on the Huntington Beach pier and the Newport Beach Pier showed zero. My videos and walking by the Newport jetties showed none on the ocean and in the waves. If it's as bad as what your video is showing the beaches would be covered in black and I mean covered. That isn't the case. Unless of course if most of the oil just sank to the bottom or got cleaned up by boats? Spooky music at the beginning of your video? No spooky music at the beginning of mine. Furthermore, I think 2 birds died and 12 have been turned into the wildlife rescue. If it's as bad as your video shows there would be hundreds if not thousands of birds dead.

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I went to the Pier on Sunday evening, and couldn't see anything oily floating on top (I didn't go down to the sand) That is HUGE! From that angle you can see right down into the water. I'm horrified. It's a big deal in the news but they didn't have this angle.

Not the biggest spill I have ever seen by any means. Authorities believe a German tanker ran its anchor over the pipeline. Intentional? perhaps because they are pissed the US drivers aren't showing up to remove their cargo?

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Typical California it's ok

This sucks, and fracking is worse.

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