See my post #155 immediately above this. I’ll be a bit nicer to you though - BP was working on topkill right away. It takes much more time to get things together for topkill than it took for the other attempts first. They have been working on topkill efforts almost from the first day. The ROVs have been preparing the environment and making the connections for at least two weeks now, cutting, tearing, polishing, welding, etc. BP had to get many other pieces of equipment on site - like vessels with nearly 100,000 barrels of specifically designed “mud” to feed to the 16,000 psi, 5000 gallon per minute pumps (One heck of a power sprayer)... not to mention at all the hoses, connectors, powerlines, hydralics, etc needed to accomplish this Herculean feat.
//the 16,000 psi, 5000 gallon per minute pumps//
What, are those things Saturn V F-1 engines?
Thanks...didn’t know all that was involved plus 100,000 barrels of mud ready to go on board a ship. There was/is always a risk this top kill would make it worse. I’m sure everyone had their fingers crossed.