I know this isnt a real diary but after watching the ridiculas clean up in the gulf, and how we have these litle boats and skimmers trying to coral all of that oil, I was judt thinking about why they just dont do something that I think is a little easier.
How about bringing in a huge empty oil tanker along side where the rig was, and then get a huge sucking pipe or tube and put it right near where the leak is... and suck the oil up into the big tanker. Try to get as much as you can before it spills all over the place.
I know this wouldnt capture all of the oil, but it would capture about half of it and could limit the total damage of this catastrophe! It seems silly to me to try to capture the oil once it comes to the surface when you could try to get it at the source, and then clean up the residual mess of what is left over. Maybe this is a naive Idea..who knows.
Either way, this should be a wake up call to everyone in the country that we have to get off of this addiction to fosil fuels. More wind turbines, more solar, and more natural gas only because it is so abundent here and burns twice as clean as oil. (I think)