One Cap Off, One Cap On: BP Tries Another Plan to Catch Leaking Oil

Will this solution finally be the solution? Today in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is attempting to secure another containment cap onto its oil leak, which the company says could trap and collect all the oil gushing from the leak—if it works. On Saturday BP removed the leaky cap that had been catching a little bit of the oil, meaning that the oil is now flowing unchecked into the Gulf as engineers race to install the new one. This is the latest try in a string of attempts to cap the leak, and BP's Kent Wells says that engineers are lowering the new, tighter-fitting cap into place this morning.