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Long before he became a congressman, john lewis fought for civil rights for nonviolence, organizing sit-ins and freedom rides. he did so even though he himself was attacked brutally as an activist. he was beaten so badly on bloody sunday that his skull was fractured and he nearly died. throughout john lewis life, he has been this world class devotee and practitioner and teacher of nonviolence. on one hand its weird to name a naval ship. on the other hand, you would em blazen his name not on the ...

Class. long before he became a congressman, john lewis fought for civil rights for nonviolence, organizing sit-ins and freedom rides. he did so even though he himself was attacked brutally as an activist. he was beaten so badly on bloody sunday that his skull was fractured and he nearly died. throughout john lewis life, he has been this world class devotee and prak tictitioner an teacher of nonviolence. on one hand its weird to name a naval ship. on the other hand, you would em blazen his name n...

He was beaten so badly on bloody sunday that his skull was fractured and he nearly died. throughout john lewis life, he has been this world class devotee and practitioner and teacher of nonviolence. on one hand its weird to name a naval ship. on the other hand, you would em blazen his name not on the side of his destroyer, but on the side of a support ship, thats in existence to serve others. congressman lewis said when the idea was shared with me that he would like to name a ship for me, we bot...

Expansion. the bluefin, you know, it gave its best shot, but its not enough. there are parts of the search area that it cannot reach. its too deep. and, of course, we need additional resources because the bluefin turned up nothing. so what theyre going to have to do is bring in some of the deeper descending autonomous underwater vehicles. they have sight scan sonar, and each of those vehicles needs a support ship. theres needing to be more crew. i think theyre planning an expedition or a search ...

Missio mission? >> well, what we are seeing is its right on the very edge of its operational parameters. you know, the machine is rated to 4500 meters. and, you know, its limited by weather and because it operates autonomously, it is programmed if it has any issues, that it has to return back to the support ship. and these are some of the draw backs of operating with auvs. so, if we have good weather and if we dont go below 4500 meters and we can accept that its, you know, a relatively tight sea...

The challenge. this is the pipe bringing the crude up to the enterprise. as you go down and sink down to ocean floor a mile deep you see the equipment they have put on. and in here, this is the wellhead here. the cap they put on is underneath here. you still see oil spewing out. we dont know totally over the course of the crisis. we do know now 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day in excess of the capacity of bp to contain it on the top. a quick look before we go back to the surface. you see some of t...