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How do you cut a giant steel pipe a mile below the surface of the ocean?
The Deepwater Horizon was connected to the seabed by a steel pipe called a riser - 21 inches wide and a mile long.
After the rig sank, BP needed to cut away the riser pipe above the blowing out well - a complex job never attempted before a mile below the waves.
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