Having watched the Deepwater Horizon activities live, it seems they could do certain remote control actions with radio or cable controlled normal equipment...like Bobcats and other tractors fitted with specialized gripping equipment.
I’m sure there are overhead cranes etc, and they probably have the best engineers in the world there working on it, but why is nothing happening?
If ever there were a serious threat to the environment...this is it.
In the same regard, why are we trying to blow ourselves up over the ME?
It's like we've lost the ability to work together and put our differences aside in order to accomplish a common good, lately.
"...see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass..."
Btw, wasn't that something! The thread is still here on FR, I'm sure. We never did learn who the heroes behind the controls were.
Supposedly, the radiation is corrupting electronics.