Actually, the idea that it can be done at all impresses me. I would have thought that they'd have plugged the hole with mattresses and welded plate on as best they could, requisitioned a bunch of buckets, and prayed for glassy seas.

Yet I've seen drilling platforms being built and under tow.

I doubt that I'll set foot on any water-borne vessel before next September (I'm going on a small ship cruise then).

Just the idea impresses me -- and if during the transport they HAD run into heavy weather....