As noted on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, see video below, there are strong parallels between the 1979 Ixtoc Gulf Oil Spill and the BP Oil Spill of 2010.
Both involved the failure of a blowout preventer device, and in both cases metal domes put over the well failed to stop the leaks.
In both cases, the only way to stop the spill is with relief wells dug horizontally through the seafloor, a process that takes months.
The BP Oil Spill is not something new. This has happened at least twice before, at Santa Barbara and in the Gulf of Mexico, and the remedies are no more sophisticated or effective as they were 30 and 40 years ago.
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