Clathrate blowout?

[unixronin]

Via Military.com, an AP article on the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion.  This seems to be saying that the cause has been determined to be a methane clathrate blowout from the seafloor below the rig, triggered by heat from a curing sub-seafloor well seal, that sent a huge bubble of methane up the drill line.

Comments

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

There's been a lot of speculation in the Blogosphere that deliberate sabotage was responsible for the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion. I have no doubt that these findings won't put an end to the conspiracy theories, but it could very well be the case -- it seems reasonable enough, and as I think it would be rather hard for saboteurs to get down to the sea floor to deliberately rig something up to cause such a blowout, I'm putting my money on the clathrates for now.