Gulf Spill Disaster - Robots bead ascendancy box assimilate seafloor

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) - 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. A spokesman for oil giant BP LPC, which is in charge of the cleanup, said the box was suspended over the main leak just after noon EDT Friday and was being moved into position. Several undersea cameras attached to the robots were making sure it was properly aligned before it plunged all the way to the bottom. "We are essentially taking a four-story building and lowering it 5000 feet and setting it on the head of a pin," Bill Salvin, the BP spokesman, told The Associated Press. If the device works, it could be collecting as much as 85 percent of the oil spewing into the Gulf and funneling it up to a tanker by Sunday. It's never been tried so far below the surface, where the water pressure is enough to crush a submarine. Once the device in place later Friday, the robots will secure it over the main leak at the bottom, a process that will take hours. The seafloor is pitch black, but lights on the robots illuminate the area where they are working and they have found no problems so far. The cameras are off to the side, not in the path of the oil, Salvin said. There's no marine life in sight. About 1300 feet away is the wreckage of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which BP was leasing when it ...



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