Giant Condom Fails, BP To Try Another PR Gimmick

I like how the media constantly reports this as a "leak", or a "spill", like someone knocked over a glass of milk.
It's an oil volcano.

BP Chamber Clogged, Removed From Leaking Gulf Well

" BP Plc said gas hydrates like ice crystals formed inside the steel chamber it’s trying to use to capture leaking oil from a Gulf of Mexico well, forcing the company to move the structure aside while working on ways to stanch the flow of crude.
The hydrates clogged the 40-foot-tall containment system, which was designed to funnel oil to an overhead drillship, Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production, said today at a press conference in Robert, Louisiana. He said BP placed the chamber on the seafloor, about 200 meters (656 feet) away from the well’s biggest leak, and will evaluate ways to prevent hydrate slushes from forming."

plus - Most of the oil my be subsurface and on the move

"The ooze has washed onto a chain of islands off Louisiana and has come perilously close to getting caught up in the mighty Loop Current that could carry the mess southward, some 200 miles offshore of Naples, before skirting the Florida Keys and pushing up the East Coast.
But scientists say they are worried that disaster also could be spreading below the Gulf surface and out of the view of spill trackers."