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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone. Today is Monday, the fifth of July.

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Speaker 1: As always, I am joined by co founder of the Dally,

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Speaker 1: Sam Kavlawski. Sam, what are we talking about today?

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Speaker 2: I thought we'd spice things up today and start with

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Speaker 2: a COVID update from around the country. Then we're going

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Speaker 2: to chat through a landslide in Japan, some good news

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Speaker 2: from the NT and we're going to finish up by

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Speaker 2: talking you through the unbelievable image of a fire in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the ocean. Let's start with COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday was relatively good news for New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: There were only sixteen new locally acquired cases to eight

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Speaker 1: pm on Saturday. Fourteen of those cases were linked to

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Speaker 1: a known cluster and thirteen were in isolation throughout their

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Speaker 1: infectious period, so relatively better news for New South Wales residents.

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Speaker 2: There was definitely a change of tone from New South

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Speaker 2: Wales Premier Gladys bergically and at the press conference yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Here's a little bit of what she had to say.

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Speaker 3: So whilst the results of a night are very pleasing,

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Speaker 3: there's no doubt the impact of the lockdown has been evidenced. However,

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Speaker 3: to keep that trend going. We need to make sure

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Speaker 3: people don't give in and don't break Those rules were

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Speaker 3: put in place so there for a reason. And yes,

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Speaker 3: it's great sunny outdoors. Would much prefer you to go

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Speaker 3: outdoors in a COVID safe way then go to those

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Speaker 3: riskier indoor sittings.

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Speaker 1: Western Australia recorded just one locally acquired case of COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen and that was a close contact of an existing infection. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Queen's unrecorded also one new locally acquired case and that

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Speaker 1: was on the first day of the full state coming

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Speaker 1: out of lockdown.

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Speaker 2: A boat carrying one hundred and twenty seven migrants from

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Speaker 2: Libya sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, with at

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Speaker 2: least forty three people drowning. The other eighty four people

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Speaker 2: on board were saved by fishermen. Among those on board

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Speaker 2: were forty six people from Sudan, sixteen from Eritrea and

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Speaker 2: twelve Bengali nationals. The boat was on its way to

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Speaker 2: Italy when it capsized over the coast of Tunisia, and

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Speaker 2: it's not the first time this happened. In the last month.

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Speaker 2: Just a few weeks ago, one hundred and seventy eight

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Speaker 2: migrants are rescued from their boat after it capsized in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the Mediterranean as well.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Not moving to much better news here. At least two

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Speaker 1: people are dead and an estimated twenty people missing after

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Speaker 1: a landslide in the Japanese city of Atami. It comes

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Speaker 1: up parts of the region were hit by torrential rains.

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Speaker 1: So far, we have seen ten people rescued and three

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty people have been evacuated from their homes.

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Speaker 1: Eighty homes have been swept away by a mud slide,

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Speaker 1: and an estimated one hundred to three hundred households have

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Speaker 1: been affected, with over two thousand households in the city

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Speaker 1: losing power.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news. Over the weekend, the Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: recorded zero that's a big fat donut locally acquired COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen cases as lockdowns in our Springs and Darwin were lifted.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday was the third consecutive donut Day, and Chief Minister

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Speaker 2: Michael Gunner wrote in a Facebook post saying I'm pleased

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Speaker 2: to report it's all good news today.

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Sam, we saw some pretty incredible footage

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Speaker 1: of the water on fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Speaker 1: And that is not a phrase that I have really,

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Speaker 1: i think, ever said in my life. But it was

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Speaker 1: something that we were seeing all over the news, all

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Speaker 1: over Twitter, and everyone was talking about it. So let's

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Speaker 1: start from the beginning. How did a fire erupt in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the ocean.

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Speaker 2: It seems totally scientifically illogical, but introducing the eye of fire.

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Speaker 2: It's a fire that began in an underwater pipeline. So

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Speaker 2: these are pipes that run through the ocean, connecting continents

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Speaker 2: in terms of their oil supply. The cause was a

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Speaker 2: gas leak that was found in pipes connected to a

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Speaker 2: platform at an oil development run by a company called Pennex.

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Speaker 2: This development is actually responsible for forty percent of Mexico's

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Speaker 2: total oil output and it's one of the company's most

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Speaker 2: important platforms. It's a multi billion dollar oil giant, this company,

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Speaker 2: and this is one of their flagship products.

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Speaker 1: So after we saw this incredible footage circulating, the company

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Speaker 1: did come out and after five hours they said that

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Speaker 1: the fire had been extinguished and that no human life

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Speaker 1: had been lost. But obviously there was quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of concern as to what the environmental and ecological impacts

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Speaker 1: of what had happened could have been. What do we

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Speaker 1: know so far about the ecological impacts.

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Speaker 2: The official party line from the company is that no

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Speaker 2: oil was spilled from the explosion or the leak. We

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Speaker 2: are yet to see true evidence of how correct that

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Speaker 2: statement is, but we'll take them on their word today.

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Speaker 2: In terms of the cost of life, yes, no humans

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Speaker 2: were hurt that we know of. The oil refinery in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the ocean nearby didn't even have to

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Speaker 2: be evacuated. It was safely out of the way. The

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Speaker 2: toll is more on the wildlife in the ocean, which

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Speaker 2: is immeasurable. And we won't know really the damage to

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Speaker 2: the ecosystems until scientists can get around the area. And

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Speaker 2: it's still very much a no go zone for anyone

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Speaker 2: on the scene.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we found out that the way that they

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Speaker 1: extinguished the fire was with nitrogen, and so the nitrogen

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Speaker 1: was used to control this fire over as I said before,

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Speaker 1: a period of five hours. Even though it looks like

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Speaker 1: that situation might be under control at the moment and

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Speaker 1: they've said that the fire has been extinguished. A lot

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Speaker 1: of commentators are paying attention to how this incident plays

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Speaker 1: into a broader narrative and broader context of how Pemex

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Speaker 1: has acted in the past, because, according to reports, this

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Speaker 1: company does have a long record of major industrial accidents

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Speaker 1: at its facilities. So some of these incidents include that

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety two, Pemes was found to be at

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Speaker 1: fault for a series of ten explosions that occurred in

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Speaker 1: Guadalajara in mexic This claimed the lives of about two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two people. Then in twenty twelve, there

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Speaker 1: was an explosion in a gas plant, again in Mexico,

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Speaker 1: and that incident claimed the lives of thirty people and

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Speaker 1: injured forty six. A year later, there was an explosion

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Speaker 1: at the company's offices in Mexico City where thirty seven

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Speaker 1: people were killed, and we still don't know what the

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Speaker 1: cause of that incident was. In twenty sixteen, there were

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Speaker 1: two separate incidents of explosions and fires at the company's plants,

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Speaker 1: and we know that twenty eight people died. Then then

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Speaker 1: two years ago, in twenty nineteen, eighty people died in

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Speaker 1: a blast that occurred at a Pemex pipeline.

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Speaker 2: There's a major investigation happening that we'll look into. This

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Speaker 2: latest chapter in the company's seemingly troubled recent history. One question, though,

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Speaker 2: that we can answer, is how on Earth do you

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Speaker 2: light water on fire? According to Simon George, a professor

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Speaker 2: of organic geochemistry at Sydney's Macquarie University, the fire was

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Speaker 2: caused by methan and probably other wet gas components like

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Speaker 2: ethane and propane, and other pains igniting at the ocean's

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Speaker 2: surface after leaking from the pipeline. I had a friend

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Speaker 2: who's particularly well versed in science tell me yesterday that

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Speaker 2: I should think about a cup of water and pouring

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Speaker 2: oil into the water. The oil rises to the surface slowly,

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Speaker 2: and that is what caught on fire, and that's why

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Speaker 2: we see the flames seemingly come straight out of the

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Speaker 2: water like the eye of Hell. If you need to

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Speaker 2: feel a little bit better about your natural environment, I

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Speaker 2: guess the only thing to do is to look up

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Speaker 2: the memes from this incident. There's some good ones. I

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Speaker 2: recommend the ones to do with Godzilla. But for now,

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Speaker 2: that's all we've got time for today. Make sure to

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Speaker 2: follow along on the daily OS on Instagram and we'll

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Speaker 2: keep you up to date with any COVID nineteen developments.

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Speaker 2: Over the course of the day, have a great start

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Speaker 2: to the week,