Well if nothing else, BP is trying something completely unheard of in an attempt to contain this debacle...
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Their plan is to lower the chamber to the ocean floor where the biggest of three leaks in the well's underwater piping occurs. It would straddle the pipe and lock itself into the seabed, so that the leaking oil goes into the chamber itself.
Then the question becomes how to pipe it up to a giant tanker on the surface, 5,000 feet up. It is by far the deepest attempted use ever of such a containment chamber, according to BP officials.
"This has been done in shallow water; it's never been done in deep water before," Suttles said
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/03/oil...ex.html?hpt=C1