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Warpy

(111,338 posts) Tue Jun 8, 2021, 02:23 PM Jun 2021

Better'n dynamite

This is an old video but new to me, an ungainly looking but incredibly creative way to douse oil well blowout fires and probably a lot safer and more predictable than blowing them out with high explosives.

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Better'n dynamite (Original Post) Warpy Jun 2021 OP

This method was invented after the Gulf War, by Czech engineers, IIRC. eppur_se_muova Jun 2021 #1

eppur_se_muova

(36,287 posts)

1. This method was invented after the Gulf War, by Czech engineers, IIRC.

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Tue Jun 8, 2021, 11:54 PM

Jun 2021

(no audio here, don't know if they covered that)

There were hundreds of fires to put out, and things were going very slowly until these guys stepped in.

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