It’s interesting listening to all you “experts” but the oil, however much of it, is still flowing into the sea.
I say remove that stupid BP riser, cut it clean off flush with the bottom. The pipe is 20 inches in diameter? Or so i heard.
I do know something about torpedoes, sea pressure, salinity and make up of the ocean’s bottom and its strata. A Mk 50 torpedo is very close to circumference of the pipe. Send an inert Mk 50, with laser GPS at high speed straight down the throat of that sucker.
It could go into or push the pipe well below the bottom. Follow it with a Mk 48 ADCAP (again w/o warhead) straight in behind it. Use underwater concrete to plug the 3o foot deep, 3 foot wide hole. I guarantee there would be less oil flowing than what I see now
You can't cut the BOP off the well head as it is the well head. It is nearly 5 stories high and anchored to the ocean floor.
You could put a nuclear bomb under it and all you would get for your trouble after the oil made it's way through the sand and debris, would be a lot of radioactive tar balls to pick up off the beach along with radioactive dead birds and fish.
Yeah, right. Another "nuke the well" idiot. The probability is quite high that an explosion would actually make things worse.