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Just imagine one of these. what you have is a pipe less than a foot in diameter spewing oil under enormous pressure. should have automatically shut this down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. so, what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device. for simplicity, just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads out, and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a ...

This down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device for simplicity. just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads it up and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a depth. the military could be crucial because they have deep-diving subs to help run this operation. that could take four weeks compared to the other alt...