manufacturing quite a bit of it . we deployed it in pensacola and it worked fantastic. it gathers a foot of this gathers a gallon of oil . incredible. you can get it out of the marshes and that s where we are finding the pelicans. bob devised a means of distributing the property in the marsh and we don t have to walk in the marsh grass to get the oil. that protects the ever seen anything like it?
this isn t out on the water but in the edges of this marsh grass. the oil is sitting out there. occasionally bp sends people out with these absorbent pads to literally soak it up. local officials are saying it s not doing the job. it s disgusting. in the corners the currents pull up the oil in one place and it s just sitting there. you look at the marsh grass, five feet deep into the grass and it is you see green in the distance but it is brown right upfrontd. killing those marshes. absolutely. ed lavendera, appreciate it. fears of another potential disaster out there. bp whistle blower telling congress bp continues to cut corners, this time on a rig called atlantiss the deepest deepwater rig in the ocean. former oil rig worker himself has a lot to say about how things are being handled down here and what it s like to be on one of those rigs and he also talks about the president s ban on drilling. tonight s big 360 interview ahead.
these barges for some sort of inspection which, according to the governor s office, never took place. that s what they re saying. they re saying we lost 24 hours. they weren t on there and the equipment they ve put on these barges is starting to suck up a lot more oil. the numbers we ve been talking about, they think will go up thousands and thousands in the coming weeks. they have 16 out there now and 14 more that are supposed to be coming. the governor said they would like to ramp these up so there s more than 100 of them out there, really attacking this oil with bigger machines, bigger vacuums and getting up what they can. they re big into this. these barges are deployed into the marshy grass area. this isn t out on the water but in the marsh land, in the edges of this marsh grass. the oil is sitting out there. occasionally bp sends people out with these absorbent pads to literally soak it up. local officials are saying it s not doing the job. it s disgusting. in the corne
inspection which, according to the governor s office, never took place. that s what they re saying. they re saying we lost 24 hours. they weren t on there and the equipment they ve put on these barges is starting to suck up a lot more oil. the numbers we ve been talking about, they think will go up thousands and thousands in the next coming weeks. they have 16 out there now and 14 that are on their way. the governor said they would like to ramp these up so there s more than 100 of them out there, really attacking this oil with bigger machines, bigger vacuums and getting up what they can. they re big into this. these barges are deployed into the marshy grass area. this isn t out on the water but in the edges of this marsh grass. the oil is sitting out there. occasionally bp sends people out with these absorbent pads to literally soak it up. local officials are saying it s not doing the job. it s disgusting. in the corners the currents pull up the oil in one place and it s just
a long way, ed. reporter: a lot of this is inspired because so many people along the gulf coast especially here in the areas of the louisiana marshland feel like they re up against the clock that the waves of oil will only continue and continue to come over the months ahead. they feel they ve got to do whatever they can to fight back the oil. on the edge of this oil-stained marsh grass, vacuum trucks sit on barges. crews using a plastic hose suck oil out of the water. but this isn t an idea brought to you by bp or the federal government. it is what governor bobby jindal likes to call cajun ingenuity. it was frustrating, before we did this, they were simply letting that oil sit there. we said that s not acceptable. you don t win this war by waiting for the oil to go away. you attack the oil by wherever it is away from our coast. reporter: here in barataria bay, the urgency of this oil disaster continues to heighten, we re 15 miles north-northeast of the city of grand isle. officia