Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said though that the military is ready to take the lead in ending the spill, if President Barack Obama asks them to do so.

“We’ve looked at that continuously since the leak started — whether or not we would have submersibles that could go do this,” Mullen said during an appearance on “Good Morning America” on ABC. “And the fact is, the best technology in the world, with respect to that, exists in the oil industry.”