Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100511:02:27:00
The gas burns as the ice melts and releases it. that is the culprit that is stopping up this funnel from stopping this leak in the bottom of the ocean. >> so i understand they've considered using a smaller dome. how would that be any better? >> an interesting question. the reason it would be better perhaps, the researcher tells me, it might allow them to focus a heat sources around here to prevent those crystals from clogging the spout. but fire ice is a tricky thing. vast beds of this stuff on the ocean floor can become highly volatile if either the pressure or the temperature equation is ups...