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Skimmers dont work in ocean waves. they only work in flat water. oil that does come to the surface does end up in the wetlands and on the beach. keep in mind in deep water, when you have a spill like this, almost 90% of the oil never comes to the surface. its damaging the sea sea life and could be there for months and years. >> is there any progress to report in terms of shutting down deep water spills? terms of dealing with deep water emergencies? you hear people talk about this is equivalent t...

Have experience operating, are we any better in terms of dealing with deep water emergencies? >> you know, the challenge we have here in deep water is control the well itself. we have done nothing to improve the prisb)y control device which is the blow out preventer. we still have that almost 50% failure rate that you and i have talked about before in deep water. so if something does go wrong, theres a 45% to 50% chance that the well is going to lose control. there are a couple of well containme...