"Charlie" wrote in message
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"mm" wrote in message
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OT BP again

So they capped the pipe.

Where was this cap for the last 89 days? Why don't they have three
of them or more, at least one on each continent where they have
off-shore wells?

This cap was made to order to fit the application

Why was every procedured they did reported with the caveat, This has
never been done before. Why not?

That's the trouble with this deep well. There has never been an event
quite like this one.


Eh...more reason to prepare for catastrophes. If they can't do it safely
they shouldn't do it. And yes, there have been deep water oil blow outs
before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill