That was then. This is then. Ixtoc vs. Deepwater Horizon

This isn't good. You would think the technology would have improved over the last 30 years.

Rachael Maddow of MSNBC compares the efforts to stop the Deepwater Horizon leak in 5000 feet of water the to the efforts in 1979 with the Ixtoc I well in 160 feet of water. There is not much difference. It took 10 months to stop the Ixtoc leak. From Wikipedia:

Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible platform Sedco 135F in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (160 ft) deep.^[1] On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in the second largest oil spill and the largest accidental spill in history.^[2][3]