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The crew of a Maersk Line, Limited tanker conducted a nighttime rescue of a mariner who was in the water for 24 hours after his vessel capsized in the Aegean...

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Wonderful job and i appreciate youre coming on this evening. thank you, commander marks. >> thank you. all of our sailors appreciate it. >> live from the blue ridge, the command vessel of the seventh fleet of the united states. let me take a break. there are all kinds of things breaking tonight. we asked people a question, how much money do you think youll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a littl...

Wonderful job and i appreciate youre coming on this evening. thank you, commander marks. >> thank you. all of our sailors appreciate it. >> live from the blue ridge, the command vessel of the seventh fleet of the united states. let me take a break. there are all kinds of things breaking tonight. lots of opinions. well sum them up after this. ♪ ♪

Take it, certainly, when it comes to trying to battle back this oil spill. there are over 700 vessels that are being used to skim here in the gulf of mexico. and the recent weeks, its just swarming here. we try to get that big tanker to work, to skim oil, but its just too big. there is too many patches of oil. you need smaller, more agile skimmers. well, coordinating those skimmers is a difficult job. so the navy has let the coast guard borrow one of their blimps, or air ships, as they like to c...

>> reporter: all right. well, tony, right now we are circling around the vessel that rob marciano is riding on. and he is on the command vessel that is commanding all these simmers, so what were doing up here about 500 feet above the gulf of mexico is looking out for any oil slicks, damaged boons or injured wildlife. fortunately, we havent seen any of those yet so far. i think the biggest thing that has surprised our crew is that we are seeing people swimming off the beaches of the coast -- gulf...

Amber lyon is in a blimp, tracking the skimming boats that are covering the -- that are skimming up the oil. she is on the right of the screen there, shots coming in and out, but it looks like weve got her there. and rob marciano on the left is on a skimmer boat, being tracked by the u.s. navy blimp. so the two of them have got two different views of how this is going. lets start with you, rob. whats going on? >> well, the process of this operation all day long has -- well, in part, been led by ...

Angle and outpost to look from is a huge, huge advantage. so were on the command vessel, as amber noted. about a 60-foot vessel, ice lady, as its called and usually a touring vessel to catch fish, red snapper. but its one of the vessels of opportunity. it is commanding the other vessels of opportunity involved in this skimming operation. about ten that were in charge. there are other sectors around the gulf doing the same thing. and a lot of the information fed in by that air ship up there. ther...

"s.e.c. "zekes lady" on any other day is a commercial boat to take people out to fish for snapper, but now it is a command vessel in the skimming operation today, and telling other vessels what to do based on what that blimp is telling us. so a great asset into this battle that will continue to go on for weeks to come here, and the lucky thing is that we have not seen a whole lot today. and one reason for that, wolf, we have to stay a couple of miles away from the shore. and it is one of the han...