Probably works better if you don’t use millions of gallons of dispersant, and if you put the ship in the path of the river of oil.
Probably works better if you don’t wait two months to deploy it. Probably works better if it isn’t tied up to the dock.
Apparently this has been done before and there are people who know how to do it. But, and this is a really big but, they didn’t have to contend with this government.
The test is being run in the vicinity of the platform. That’s the area of heaviest oiling.