the environment. there is a lot of biomass in the environment. there is still shoreline impacts over the next several days. i think we also clearly are on the down side of this thing. and the environment is incredibly resilient. it return to normal. the bacteria out. there they're helping. we're also helping with tropical weather that dispersed residual oil and breaks it into much smaller components. the concentrated oil can't be degraded very fast. dispersed oil can be. and bonnie helped in that respect. >> stan, do you agree? do you believe that there's been bacteria that is eating the oil? that the soil so dispersed that that's the reason we can't see it? >> well, there's no doubt that there's action by things like bacteria that can degrade the oil. it's really way too soon to a where all this oil has gone. who knows where it's going to pop-up next. one of the things we're concerned about is oil can get buried in sentiment and work its way under marsh grasses. it may take a lot longer to