User blog comment:Shadow Wolf TJC/Apparently, you can still flood hell (sort of)./@comment-24.17.213.90-20110825100118

You can do this really easily in 1.6.1. Dig a hellevator with a plug down from one ocean, break the plug, leave and rejoin, and then simply fin hell flooded. Since oceans are infinite (Somewhat) the water will stay because it will keep flowing down from the ocean.