Ralph C. Whitley Sr.

From: Ralph C. Whitley Sr. [backflow2@verizon.net]

Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:35 AM
To: 'Ralph C. Whitley Sr.'; 'Brad Wehde'; 'Alternative Response Technology Alternative Response Technology';
'CGRDCDeepwaterHorizon@uscg.mil'; 'HorizonSupport@oegllc.com'; 'info@deepwater.com'; 'Innovative Technology'; 'charlie crist';
'Carol Browner, The White House'; 'Brad Wehde'; 'charlie crist'; 'Branko R Babic'; 'bobby.jindal@la.gov'; (bill@billnelson.senate.gov);
'Bill McCollum'; CFO Alex Sink
Subject: RE: FOR REAR ADMIRAL LANDRY AND OTHERS....OCEANEERING USE HALF OR QUARTER MOON WEDGE CLIPS WITH
STOPS AND TETHER TO BOP....YOU NEED EVERGLADES AIRBOATS AND UTILITY WORKERS AND CONTRACTORS FROM
FLORIDA QUICKLY .....RE: ..FREEZING WATER INSIDE.....

Importance: High

URGENT. Pressure created by cut appearing on far side means you must IMMEDIATELY insert and tap in place a small
QUARTER SECTION WEDGE same size as the CUT SAW DEPTH OF BLADE. Quarter section wedge must be forced into
the opening allowing both sides to vent but keep from pushing over onto next cut. ROV operator can with help of
CRANE lift slightly on the riser bent pipe creating pressure on the wedge then the diamond drill operator can make a
cut across the back following the same curve which is blowing on the other side.

After SECOND cut across back another quarter or 1 eighth wedge then you can change angle of the saw and start
toward the underneath section with ROV paying attention to the wedges or another person in the control room
watching the wedge for large opening which would signal crane to stand bye because it is shifting and closing on
wedges thus cut can continue.

Keep a little more tension lifting the bent pipe section UP which will allow the diamond round saw to cut almost
through with the crane operator ready to MOVE cut length OFF of the BOP area to the sea floor quickly as all oil, water,
mud and gas will not escape out of the cut 21 inch riser uncontrolled with full pressure. One quarter wedges with stop
points and lanyards will stop the wedges from going inside the piping.

Once the final cut is made get ready with water pressurized to push away the heavy oil, mud, gas mixture and
temporarily you could place a larger pipe with 90 degree ell over the pipe and blow the full oil and gas away from the
work area by turning same held by crane in left or right direction to keep flow away from bop for inspection. Lifting UP
slightly will allow inspection with lights of the cut area of the riser to see if it too is bent or out of shape.

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Frankly that would be the excellent time to have that Branko R. Babic Invention with flow thru pipe just going inside
riser pipe but you will agree the depth is minimized now with the cut so low but still it might be something to look at IF
you cannot find the replacement Flange to make up another when with the 90 and pipe you can put the temporary
diverter over the cut pipe allowing you to even consider cutting all bolts to the flange if you can get another one rigged
up.

JUST REMEMBER WHICH BOLTS ARE INSERTED FROM TOP TO BOP WITH NUTS AND WASHERS AND REMEMBER
WHICH ONES ARE BOLTS FED FROM BOTTOM PUSHED THROUGH TO TOP FLANGE TO JOIN UP WITH NUTS AND
WASHERS OR SPACERS.

I have used the WEDGE one quarter section forced into a cut area to allow me to lift the bent section slightly holding
my wedge area but still allowing flow then final cut will release RISER and allow retrieval of wedges with bent stop
section like an L shaped steel rod similar thickness as cut by the diamond saw.

Now to go back to sleep !

Ralph
060310 @ 1:35 AM Eastern

From: Ralph C. Whitley Sr. [mailto:backflow2@verizon.net]

Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:42 AM
To: 'Brad Wehde'
Subject: FOR REAR ADMIRAL LANDRY AND OTHERS....YOU NEED EVERGLADES AIRBOATS AND UTILITY WORKERS AND CONTRACTORS FROM FLORIDA
QUICKLY .....RE: ..FREEZING WATER INSIDE.....
Importance: High

Roger. Will see what else they can get TRAPPED trying to cut stressed pipe from the side or underneath. ROV
operators are not Construction Supervisors with stressed pipe. Still believe the JUNK SHOT with lead balls and even
perhaps baseball size steel would shut down the flow at the bent section but NOW they have cut the pipe and better
have it held in place by two cranes or it will PEEL really destroying the riser section all the way down into the
FLANGE. Why they will not get a new flange from the BOP manufacturer and cut the other one loose then swing the
new flange over and lower down….is beyond me.

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They need to put professional contractors in a meeting with ROV operators to introduce them to cutting stressed pipe
and even how to cut pipe on supported surfaces using cranes to hold pipe and pick up or remove pipe with slings
properly to prevent injury to personnel or equipment at any depth.

I watch occasionally BUILDING BIGGER where they build Liquid Natural Gas tanks and we even welded sections in
Mulberry of some similar rigs where the crane operators really got my respect as a Boilermaker/Welder with Local 433
in Tampa. The USCG have perhaps a similar group of ratings like machinist mate and boiler tech who could tell Rear
Admiral Landry to check with the SEA BEES and also U.S. Naval Divers on such cutting methods as they repair ship
items and special underwater pumps no doubt.

I remember clearly talking with Irrigation Contractors pulling water from 1,000 feet down for sprinklers and fire
sprinkler systems using special filters on the bottom under the submersible pump to keep trash out while they pump
the water UP to the surface where tanks store it and pump it higher for use on Fire or Irrigation sprinklers. Cutting in
to my ideas is training and experience working with these State Certified and Licensed Professionals since 1974 in
Florida.

We were watching the ROV with cut saw failing to get clean cuts and felt sorry for the ROV operator who did not
obviously have a Contractor qualified with such a saw in the control room seated beside him. NO CUTTING AND NO
CRITICAL WORK SHOULD BE DONE OR ATTEMPTED WITHOUT SPECIAL ADVISERS LICENSED FOR UNDERWATER
CUTTING OF SUPER HEAVY LONG SECTIONS OF STEEL RISER PIPE AS THIS SHOULD BE MANDATORY THAT THE
ROV OPERATOR LISTENS TO THE PROBLEMS OF SUCH CUTS AND SHEAR BLADE BEING ON THE UNDER SIDE OF A
STRESSED PIPE GROUP OF RISERS WAS ACTUALLY STUPID AND DANGEROUS AT 5,000 FEET AS THEY WOULD HAVE
TO USE DIAMOND WHEEL CUTTERS TO FREE THE UNIT TO GET IT BACK TO THE SURFACE UNTIL OXY-ACETYLENE
UNITS COULD CUT AWAY THE JAMMED PIPE WHEN IF THEY WOULD HAVE PUT THE BLADE ON TOP AND SUPPORTED
THE CUT WITH CRANES HOLDING FAST PULLING UP ON THE PIPE GOING TO THE SEA BED YET ANOTHER CRANE
HOLDING THE BENT RISER PIPE BEFORE THE CUTTER WOULD HAVE CUT IT IMMEDIATELY. CRANE WOULD HAVE TO
PULL THE PIPE UP AWAY FROM THE LINES HOLDING THE HYDRAULIC CUTTER AS IT WOULD BE TRAPPED WITH A
FALL ARC WHICH MIGHT CAUSE DAMAGE EVEN TO THE BOP CONNECTION THAT NO ONE COULD SEE.

Sort of unbelievable for me to watch feeble attempts more than three times resulting in jammed teeth cutting wheels
then the hydraulic shear pushed over to cut from the bottom on a stressed section.

Any County Worker with the Utilities Department or City Utilities specialist with steel water or air pipe could advise
the USCG personnel and be sitting on the ROV ship with the ROV operators telling them first what to expect from
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tension of steel that long that deep. Then they would stay with the ROV operator and guide him cutting away sections
of pipe away from the riser bend to the sea bed. Trying three or four cuts on the sea bed but again remember that
suggestion about putting water under pressure through fan spray to keep the vision clear between ROV and work.
Once you cut the RISER off the sheer weight of the escaping OIL will go up and then come back in a blob over the BOP
unless you blow it away and once the cut is clean have a crane with a close fitting 45 degree ell short section of pipe,
even flanged, then second 45 degree ell and straight section of pipe perhaps 20 feet long to take the flow of everything
away from the work area until totally ready to work. You can attach any short smaller pipe reducer on the pipe and
take the oil, gas and water UP to the surface but primarily you are trying to push the vision obstruction material away
from the work area.

Once you are ready to remove the FLANGE and move over with another crane with the flange at BOP TOP level in the
water undisturbed ready for mating with the new BOP FLANGE FEMALE then the bolts can be tack welded going DOWN
already and once placed properly the ROV can use the socket with nuts and giant washer perhaps to lock it down with
another round shutoff valve up toward the surface on that flotation rigged riser now connected to the BOP. My
concern is everyone will forget to attach the CHECK VALVE keeping all hydraulic oil inside the lines with a connection
to VENT salt water and debris out of the hydraulic line somewhere on the BOP. AGAIN READ THE MANUAL AND
CONTACT THE MANUFACTURER AS THIS CONTAMINATION MUST HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST !

I am betting heavily on the KILL VALVE AND CHOKE VALVE FORCING LEAD BALLS until the TOP BENT RISER SECTION
STOPS FLOWING…..that gives you time to regroup, make a new TOP FLANGE, weld bolts if necessary, insert check
valve and be ready to put a shutoff valve on the riser pipe then rejoin all five LINES welded perhaps by GE in a shop
with special flotation over all areas then give you special flotation rated pipe to go to the surface and at say 200 feet
have another shutoff on a flange to flange with bypassed hydraulic and mud lines…..GET THE PICTURE !

Florida is in danger and the United States may take 10-20 years to recover from this NATIONAL DISASTER which no
one would take command and shut down the BOP or stop the leaks when we all now know it is solvable within 8 hours
by a good machine shop with full specs designing a BOP TOP FLANGE and inserting a new one then going on with all of
our lives and using those deep water SUMPS, SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS, SUMP PUMPS FOUND IN LIFT STATIONS AND
SKIMMERS WHICH CAPTURE ALL LIQUID AND WATER FOR 24 INCHES DOWN IN THE WATER FORCING IT UP INTO A
SECTION OF PIPE WHERE IT FLOWS INTO A BARGE ENTRY POINT TO BE SEPARATED AND WATER PUMPED BACK IN
SEA CLEAR WITHOUT ANY OIL.

Inventions are out there to use long MATS of special material to pull water and oil into the barge, squeeze out the oil
and send the mat back down into the mess plus skim oil like one uses a dustpan forcing it over sand stacks so the
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water goes on through and is pumped away then the oil pushed into a barge and when it get full another barge comes
into the picture and the routine goes over and over with barges going out to deep draft barges to unload OIL and come
back for more. Those Cute LANDING CRAFT can be equipped with skimmers and load all oil and water into landing
craft to be taken to VACTOR units which separate the oil and water like the local ROTO ROOTER vacuum/vactor trucks
but super powerful suction units pulling oil deep from the ocean up into a barge. VAACTOR TRUCK PULL LIFT
STATION CONTENTS UP INTO A HOLDING TANK ON A TRUCK THEN IT IS TAKEN AND DUMPED INTO A BARGE
PERHAPS. OVER AND OVER ….BUT THE OIL WILL BE PICKED UP BY THE SUPER SUCTION AND WATER FALL AWAY
OVER SPECIAL MATS OF MATERIAL WHICH RUNS TO ROLLERS AS THE WATER RUNS THROUGH THE
MATERIAL…….PICTURE IT !

All CITIES, COUNTIES AND EVEN U.S. GOVERNMENT INSTALLATIONS HAVE THESE!
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SPECIAL SUMP PUMPS AND GRINDER PUMPS IN LIFT STATIONS CAN PULL ALL
OF THE OIL FROM DEEP WATER UP TO THE SURFACE BY JUST HAVING RIGS LOWER
PIPE WITH PUMPS IN SHEDULE 900 PVC MOVED AROUND AND TURNED ON SUCKING
OIL UP OFF THE AREA JUST ABOVE THE SAND INLAND RECOVERING ALMOST ALL
PATCHES. CHECK IT OUT WITH A 55 GALLON DRUM OF OIL PICKED UP ! IT WORKS!

The EPA or DEP has a manual of exactly how to build these things called skimmers….. I prefer to use ROOTO ROOTER
TRUCKS ON BARGES SUCKING EVERY OUNCE OF OIL WITH SKIMMERS INTO THE BARGE !

Centrifuge spinning of water through slits covered with fabric and OIL flowing down to another section where it is
moved into a BARGE even if you have to squeeze rollers is an option. Me I would think the GIANT MAT OF SPECIAL
ABSORBENT MATERIAL WHERE THE OIL STAYS IN SAME AND ROLLERS SQUEEZE IT INTO TANKS like an assembly
line material on rollers is an option worth consideration as the material will keep running over and over while the
water is thrown off on the curve like a roller coaster running at Disney or Busch Gardens. The MAT material holding
the oil would go through rollers fast enough but the sudden turning at 90 degrees fast would throw water off of the
surface into channels to send it back to the Gulf. Such would allow ALL SKIMMERS to function and recover perhaps
98 percent of ALL OIL SKIMMED ! Check with the professionals Rear Admiral Allen. Even super FANS can blow with
blowers across the oil soaked matting before it heads to the rollers and all water would be sent through special slits
into channels to the sea without OIL.

I am sure the KEVIN COSTNER CENTRIFUGE would work but to me the old shallow draft Flat Bottom AIRCRAFT
ENGINE “AIR BOATS” USED TO SKIM THE EVERGLADES CAN BE BROUGHT UP AND USED AT SEA TO SKIM THE
MARSHES AND THOSE ENTIRE FRONT SKIMMER UNITS LOOKING LIKE DUST PANS REACHING 12 INCHES BELOW THE
SURFACE CAN COLLECT A LOT OF OIL AND PUSH IT INTO THE TANKS WHERE PUMPS TRANSFER OIL AND WATER TO
ASSOCIATED BARGE CARRIED BEHIND SAME TO GIVE THE BARGE TO ANOTHER LARGER BARGE OFF THE SHALLOWS
THEN GRAB ANOTHER COLLECTOR BARGE BEHIND THE ODD FLAT BOTTOM BOAT USED IN THE EVERGLADES AND
ONLY REFUELING WOULD BE NECESSARY. To think of not using these flat bottom GIANT PROPELLER ”AIR” BOATS
FROM THE EVERGLADES is unbelievable as they can be brought from all lakes, rivers and streams on flat cars the put
into service in marsh lands with those 40 channel CB Radio’s with magnetic mount antennae assigned specific call
signs and channels staying off channel 9 and channel 19 for this work with support refueling vessels and barges plus
these can be used with or without extra personnel.

It is now after Midnight so Ralph must retire and sleep to dream of new ideas perhaps.

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Ralph
060310 2 12:42 AM Eastern

Ralph Charles Whitley, Sr. CFCO32631

Backflow Prevention, Inc.
4532 W. Kennedy Blvd. PMB-276
Tampa, Florida 33609-2042 USA
Phone: 813-286-2333
SCRIBD: ralphwhitleysr

WEB PAGE: http://www.scribd.com/ralphwhitleysr

From: Brad Wehde [mailto:brad@wehdeinteractive.com]

Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:29 PM
To: backflow2@verizon.net
Subject: RE: ..FREEZING WATER INSIDE.....

Ralph,

That would be a good idea and I would take it further down the well bore. But the problem with LN2 is that at 5000 feet below sea level the pressure is over
2100psi and the temp is 34 degrees. So at that pressure and tem the LN2 will remain a liquid. We need a gas that has a critical point of 4000 psi at say 80
degrees. I don’t know of the temperature of the oil down in that well. I heard like 80 degrees but I don’t know for sure.
But for sure that could work and basically was my thought of injecting water into the well bore, this would cause the ice that plugged up the Simpson dome
down in the well and plug it up.

Brad

Brad Wehde Interactive Media

65320 W Hwy 20
Bend, OR 97701
541-389-1261
email: brad@wehdeinteractive.com
website: http://www.wehdeinteractive.com

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From: Ralph C. Whitley Sr. [mailto:backflow2@verizon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:52 PM
To: 'Brad Wehde'; CGRDCDeepwaterHorizon@uscg.mil; info@deepwater.com; CGRDCDeepwaterHorizon@uscg.mil; 'President Barack Obama';
bobby.jindal@la.gov; 'Innovative Technology'; HorizonSupport@oegllc.com
Subject: ..FREEZING WATER INSIDE.....

Brad:

I recommended using Liquid Nitrogen or LN2 in a giant tank to force into the system to freeze a cap inside the bent pipe but people no doubt felt that was
stupid.

I have had puffs of SUPER COLD AIR from Liquid Nitrogen FREEZE my Cancer Nodules (skin cancer) and I could just see getting rid of all VAMC TAMPA
Dermatology TANKS so they would never burn me again but forgot the super thick tankers bring more when need to James A. Haley VA Hospital.

Attached directly at the CHOKE VALVE fitting it would push inside the BOP and head up 8 STORIES FREEZING EVERY DROP OF WATER for a long time and the neat
part was leaving the canister perhaps attached should more be needed when they decide to remove the FLANGE and replace it with another…..who knows eh?

Ralph
060210 @ 5:52 PM Eastern

Ralph Charles Whitley, Sr. CFCO32631

Backflow Prevention, Inc.
4532 W. Kennedy Blvd. PMB-276
Tampa, Florida 33609-2042 USA
Phone: 813-286-2333
SCRIBD: ralphwhitleysr

WEB PAGE: http://www.scribd.com/ralphwhitleysr

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