Engineers worked into early Friday to position a tube at the largest oil leak site in the Gulf of Mexico—the latest effort to curb the crude gushing from a busted underwater well.
The six-inch wide tube, which will fit inside the leaking one and is surrounded by a rubber flap, will be connected to a ship above to siphon off the oil.
A BP spokesman said it should be operational within the next several days. Toronto star
Apparently BP has decided to go in a new direction by holding off on trying to cap the leak with their "top hat" condom. Instead they have chosen to insert a tube into the oil spill's pee-hole and siphon the oil to a tanker on the ocean surface.
As usually there is no guarantee that this will work, but it is guaranteed to be rather uncomfortable.
Click here for a larger view of BP's latest plan.
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