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> Since it is a nice, straight cut It looks to me like someone cut out the damaged portion and removed it for investigation. That cut looks far too clean for

• doodlebugging 4y ago
  This could be true. I didn't think about that. It would explain why there is no apparent melting along the cut as you might expect with an explosion too. I don't know what type of equipment the investigators have at their disposal but I would think that they could certainly recover sections of the pipe from the seafloor pretty easily. That capability would be necessary for any future leak repairs. That would also explain why there appears to be a trench at the location. It will be interesting to see what the various investigations turn up.