jump to conclusions without having any evidence from the well bore itself. and i think most of the people in the industry, as well as the agencies that regulate the industry would feel the same way. >> what is your assessment? is it assessable? of any effort to try to cap this emergence of oil beyond the relief well? in other words, are we fooling ourselves to think we stop the flow of this oil well prior to two or three months from now? >> well i think there are efforts going on. this top-kill approach that they're talking about has worked before. we've operated at twice the water depth that this well is located. i mean i've installed stuff in 5,000 feet of water 10 years ago. so the 5,000 feet doesn't bother me. what i think you're observing and some of this is due to transparency. but what you're observing is the fact that they're going to try