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Originally Posted by red-beard
Basically a stick with a series of rubber tires.
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Why even use a stick? Instead, make your stick a straw. Keep the inflatable bladders around it. Insert straw, inflate series of bladders, and allow the straw to channel the exploding oil to the safety of some surface containment.
Your inflatable bladders don't have to withstand thousands of psi of pressure. They just have to offer a seal from the ocean water. The oil can still eject itself upwards through the straw. Have some sort of expandable metal ring (like a shutter in a camera, but in reverse) incorporated to protect the delicate rubber seals from the onslaught of rocks and grit ejected up by the plume of oil.
The top hat idea is a "female" connector on top of the "male" spewing tube remnant. Do the reverse: make the spewing tube remnant the "female" end and insert a smaller "male" device (in place of the top hat) to capture the oil.