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With these robot submarines that are stationed on the rig. they are doing routine inspections of the blowout preventer on the sea floor. there is still a lot of questions about why it didnt engage. if you can imagine, this is a huge piece of equipment down there. there is a lot of redundant safety mechanisms on this thing. there should have been warning signs up on the rig when a dangerous spike in pressure was detected. >> like censors should have gone off and said, we have an issue and there i...

Work, a censor wasnt working. >> or maybe it wasnt detected. >> b.p., you heard an official say that the report from the bridge at the time of the accident was before they evacuated the rig, they had tried to gauge the block preventer and it didnt work. so b.p. is really focused on what went wrong with this blowout preventer. you are hearing the government zero in there a little bit. i this i that will probably be at the center of whatever investigation takes place. >> is it possible, does someb...

Receiving. >> you actually went out with transocean recently, right? >> i did, at the end of march. you can see just sort of all the -- how rigorous they are in monitoring all this data coming in all the time. it is hard to believe there were some indications or warning signs before this happened, which points more and more back to some kind of mechanical failure with this blowout preventer. >> got it. mechanical failure. there are critics out there that are saying, you have got b.p. that miscal...