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.
Ok, I know I’m still alive when I learn something new each day, but I never meant to use explosives. I just thought you could get down to the pipe at the ocean floor and work with it from there somehow. I didn’t know the BOP was so big, or what it’s function was...just trying to brainstorm...I feel so damn helpless.
I still think if they had gotten the Military and R&D experts from the universities together with the Navy’s resources, they could have stopped this by now...