That's basically what they're going to do after they finish the relief well.

The problem is, a friend of mine knows an engineer on another Gulf drill rig, and he says (well, the Cliff notes version anyway) that they've managed to create so many cracks in the seabed already that the oil's spewing out of a crack 13 miles away from the original hole.

It's not ONE hole they have to seal, it's dozens of them.

Sealing one hole will just create pressure somewhere else, and the oil will just come out someplace else. Or out of several someplace's else.

And I didn't really understand the explosive gas and crystal stuff he was telling me about enough to repeat it here.