[15thRegionSlamaBamma]

30 + acres is not a small man made structure. It is true that the oil from a spill would quickly find its way to the water but it is also true that it is much easier to cap a well head above ground than on the ocean floor, particularly a well drilled under frigid Arctic water and often below ice. Environmentalists should be happy that the well was not drilled from a traditional drilling platform.

Well i should have reworded it...I was meaning it would still make it to the water. What I am wondering and maybe you can clear this up for me it is made out of gravel and gravel shifts easily is there a chance it could shift enough to cause a breach in the pipe or something????