Registration for Crystal Cup now open, volunteers still needed
Registration is now open for the Crystal Cup Pond Hockey Challenge and Sid Davis Youth Memorial, and volunteers are still needed to help out at the event.
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Registration is now open for the Crystal Cup Pond Hockey Challenge and Sid Davis Youth Memorial, and volunteers are still needed to help out at the event.
From the ship, you pour in shredded rubber, other junk and at a high velocity, rocket it down and try to plug, cork, jam the leaking oil. they're going to try that possibly. but again, that's never been done at 5,000 feet. >> phil. thank you. >> one environmental expert says bp engineers are trying anything they can think of to contain the leak or give the perception they might contain the leak. mike miller, safety boss, predicted the spill would be bigger than the exxon valdez spill weeks ago. >> you know, it hasn't surprised many experts with whom i've been speaking that none of these soluti...
One of them had the least amount of oil coming out of the hole. bp just capped that one. crews are also working on two other methods to stop the rest, involving relief wells to redirect the flow of the oil. they believe that will take 90 days minimum. the faster fix or band-aid involves the domes that i mentioned. the x factory is the water pressure, the teams -- domes have never been tested at this depth. it's a long way down and the pressure is very high. mike miller is head of the canadian oil well firefighting company, safety boss. we spoke with mike last week when he predicted this spill ...
Chopsticks. that's how it was referred to. it's relatively true. these rov's are limited. >> shepard: remote operated vehicles. >> right. if they want to hook up a line or unhook a line, most can't do it unless the items they're doing are especially designed. it's not like your hands or other articulating machinery. they're very limited as to what they can do. that's probably the biggest thing. of course it's dark and you have to light your way down there. it's wavy on what light penetrates. >> shepard: we're in hope mode. that's about all we have. >> i hope it works. i know a lot of the guys ...