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How do you plug an erupting oil well 5,000 feet beneath the sea?
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00:00Millions of gallons of crude oil roar upward from a blown underwater pipe right now.
00:06How do you stop a catastrophic blowout under 5,000 feet of freezing, pitch-black ocean water?
00:13Extreme subsea pressures and freezing temperatures make standard wellhead repairs impossible,
00:19forcing engineers to abandon conventional tactics entirely.
00:23A three-story, 300-ton hydraulic capping stack drops down to clamp the broken pipe shut forever.
00:30This monumental steel beast stops the leak, proving that millions of gallons of crude oil...
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