Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
It just seems like they keep making lots of excuses for not plugging it, most of what Ive seen has been top hats and domes and very little solution that doesnt also envolve pumping oil/using the well point etc. They even said. oil will continue to leak in the gulf into next year...becuase they dont have enough boats to syphon it off too.
To be so fair it hurts, they do have a huge problem there. Working on pipes by robot sub at that depth has been compared to doing heart surgery in the dark with tongs; as for dropping the dome on it, I'd compare that to putting an extinguisher on a candle by lowering it from the roof of an apartment block on a string.

But this is exactly why they should have had backups on their backups, so the insoluble problem didn't happen. A famous manual of sailing offered the advice on what to do when caught on a lee shore on a falling tide: "Never get into this situation."