What Happened With The Dome For The Oil Spill?

[Beetwasher]

Anyone see any updates? I can't find anything.

[dionysus]

1. it's almost in place, last i heard. they're prepping the sea bed.

[Beetwasher]

2. Man, I Sure As Hell Hope It Works

I thought it was supposed to be done yesterday? Or was it that they were going to start with it yesterday?

Thanks! Where are you getting updates from?

[slackmaster]

4. Me too. Simple solutions are often the best, but deploying something at that depth is very hard.

Best of luck to the engineers.

[Beetwasher]

5. Yeah, Nothing Is Really "Simple" A Mile Down Under That Sort Of Pressure

"Pressure" being used both figuratively and literally.

[dionysus]

9. they update this link periodically;

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37008288/ns/us_news-environment/

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - Underwater robots positioned a giant 100-ton concrete-and-steel box over a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as workers prepared to drop the device to the seafloor in a first-of-its-kind attempt to stop oil gushing into the sea.

[theoldman]

3. An interesting idea, I hope it works.

[boston bean]

6. hope it works out better than these two domes...

Superdome



Astrodome:

[Statistical]

7. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8290904

[Beetwasher]

8. Thanks!

n/t

[Warpy]

10. It's going to take a few days to a week to put into place

It's swinging in the current at the end of a mile of cable. That last five feet are going to be critical and might take some time to accomplish even after they're down a mile.