Is it possible to contain a “gusher” that keepings spewing oil with a boom on top of the water? Think about it. The oil keeps coming. It will eventually spill over the top of the boom, go under it or the boom will have get bigger and bigger.
This is a major castotrophy.
There’s 18,000 feet of bedrock between the ocean floor and the oil reservoir. One would think they could blast the damn thing shut.
Think about it, you contain oil at the same time you work to stop it. The idea is to suction the oil into barges and in some cases burn the oil off, that is contained by the booms. They even have fireproof booms.
Do two things at once.