Oil spill? Blow up the ocean!

[OriginalWheelman]

http://www.dailytech.com/A+Solution+to+ ... e18683.htm

Franz Gayl, a U.S. Marine Corps technologist, has long been cooking up creative solutions for our nation's troops. He pushed out spy drones and bomb resistant trucks. And he's had a hand in more outlandish research efforts -- robotic exoskeletons, space-dropping troops, and laser weaponry.

Now he thinks he has a solution to the BP oil spill -- blow the hell out it.

Gayl suggests using the GBU-43 MOAB — known as the “Massive Ordinance Air Burst” or “Mother of All Bombs” — which has been "proven, safe and ‘green", according to Gayl. If a MOAB is unavailable, Gayl says a Vietnam-era Daisy Cutter would also do quite handsomely.

The USMC genius suggests:

Either one … can be enclosed in a simple pressure shell, that is augmented with several tons of liquid oxygen canisters, and lowered to just a few meters above the leaking well head. An oxygen-enhanced MOAB or Daisy Cutter detonated at a water depth of 5,000 feet will indeed have an interesting effect on all the well-related plumbing and equipment that is above, at, and slightly below the sea floor…. The exploding MOAB or Daisy Cutter would have an incredible implosive-sealing effect on oil plumbing within the immediate vicinity of the detonation.

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Really? How does this work? The article say's it's been done before to some degree, but I'm really not sure how it would work.

[Dittoz7]

I say go for it.

Should be somewhat entertaining if nothing else.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

I'm for the nuclear option. All the sea life in that area is dead, dying, or maimed for life anyway...why not add some radiation into the mix? The plan goes for launching a nuclear bunker-buster at the leak site.
Also...implosive sealing effect means when the implosion takes place all the surrounding water will rush outward then inward violently...crushing any surrounding piping or machinery. Sort of like how depth charges Pwn submarines and why you don't want to be anywhere near the water when an explosion goes off in the briny deeps.

[dusred]

What would it do to the relief wells being drilled near by? Seems like it would destroy them. We don't want to hamper the effort of the one thing that will for sure work. work.

[The Count]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM[/youtube]

[RCA]

I was going to start a thread about that video...

Too funny...

[Alfador]

Could actually work, or could backfire and crack the ocean floor, causing seepage in more than one place. Depends on how far under the oil is, the consistency of the rock underneath the seabed, and a few other things. The idea is that the initial shock wave, and later the seawater rushing back in to the vacancy the explosion creates, would put pressure on the seafloor, which, being solid, can't exactly compress, and can't go down , so the added pressure will crush the pipe and the drilled channel closed.

The biggest downside to this though being that if it doesn't work, it would not only potentially cause further damage, but would in all likelihood severely hamper efforts to stop the leak afterward.