Straddle It News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Cleanup. but the price has already topped $34 billion and will go much, much higher. >> so far, bp has filled to seal the gushing well n deep underwater, chemical disperse sants have had some success breaking up the oil so so it drop to the ocean floor. they have huge containment domes they have been building ready to ship out to the site as soon as tomorrow night. once in place, possibly by the weekend they hope to pump out some of the leaking oil. >> this weighs about 100 tons it is about 40 feet tall, 15 feet wide. this is the dome that they are going to lower on top of this leaking pipe, s...

Know, real vivid form. we have a live picture of it for the first time. you see those guys up there on the top of it? they have been working here for more than a week, 25 to 30 people working 24/7 to get this thing constructed. this is about 40 feet high, it's about 15 feet wide. and it's supposed to go down into the ocean, into the bottom of the ocean, where it will lock on to the leaking pipe and straddle it, and it will also dig about 15 feet below the floor of the ocean to kind of latch on to the ocean floor. the idea being that this will essentially capture the oil as it comes out of the ...

I missed the top. >> i said one of the distinctions i think people are going to make and i think all people would make just that 5,000 feet. i think it's a lot safer the more shallow the water you drill in, but it will be some time before we go back to drilling in that deep of water. so it is probably going to delay the whole thing for a long time, bus i don't think anybody is saying we should stop the drilling in shallow water, wolf. >> one thing that will happen, having grown up in california and having watched the santa barbara disaster a number of years ago it will prolong the progress of ...

The so-called dome we've been talking about. it weighs about 100 tons. 40 feet tall, 15 feet wide. the dome they're going to lower on top of this leaking pipe, straddle it, funnel the oil up to the top of the surface's they believe they can capture up to about 85% of the outflow from that. once they get this thing lowered on top of the pipe. you have spexz access to this today. nobody has gotten before. over my left shoulder, your right, they're building a smaller one. that's not going to be ready before this bigger one is. now, the timetable is key. they hope to finish this bigger dome essent...