If I were dealing with a household leak I couldn't shut off, I'd try to at least channel the flow in the general direction I wanted it to go. I used an industrial rubber glove to make up for a broken downspout--cutting off a couple of fingertips to bridge the gap between the remains of the downspout and the drain.
Why not, while waiting for all the high-tech stuff, trying to steer the jet of oil and gas with some sort of flexible, wrap-around "fabric" funnel that would at least pen the oil into a floating 'tank'? I'm thinking of products like Tyvek--that indestructible paper product, or the heavy-duty vinyl they make contractor garbage bags out of? Or the industrial rubber glove material used by electrical lineworkers?
The chemistry, depth of the pipe, and all that may preclude those substances, but the "steering the column of oil" idea seems to make sense. Even drop a bigger pipe over the existing pipe--the stuff'll go UP by itself--the key is to keep it from spreading. Corral it in a flexible column of some kind, and then use tankers to suck it out of the water.
And for God's sake stop using the toxic dispersant!
Marsha Iverson
Seattle, WA
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