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Into flames, an inferno that killed 11 men. that's when the disaster occurred. were there signs of a disaster in the making? tie ron benton was checking for anything unusual. weeks before the blast, he says he found it. he talked to special investigations unit correspondent drew griffin. >> tyrone benton. >> we flew down to the pod and saw there was an angular fit tig that had a leak on it, what was connected to the angular fitting wasn't able to see but there was an angular fitting that did have a leak. >> it was a fluid leak on one of the two pods.

That there was an angular fitting that had a leak on it. what was connected to the angular fitting wasn't able to see, but there was an angular fitting that had a leak. >> reporter: it was a fluid leak on one of the two pods. those are the mechanisms that control the blowout preventer. if they don't work the blowout preventer doesn't work. a leak, even if only a trickle, is a warning. >> yeah. it was abnormal. >> reporter: abnormal enough that you reported it to your company -- to transocean, to bp? >> that's correct. >> reporter: one pod is always working. the other, says university of texas ...

Could the worst oil spill in u.s. history have been prevented? one man says "yes" and he should know. every morning tyrone benton's job was to use remote cameras to inspect the deepwater horizon's rig and blowout preventers. weeks before he said he noticed something highly unusually in the water. he spoke exclusively withdrew griffin. >> reporter: tyrone may have seen the first sign something was very, very wrong on the deepwater horizon. did you ever get close enough to the leak to see what was leaking? >> yeah. we flew down to the pod and saw that there was an angular fitting that had a leak...

Into flames, an inferno that killed 11 men. that's when the disaster occurred. were there signs of a disaster in the making? tie ron benton was checking for anything unusual. weeks before the blast, he says he found it. he talked to special investigations unit correspondent drew griffin. >> tyrone benton. >> we flew down to the pod and saw there was an angular fitting that had a leak on it, what was connected to the angular fitting wasn't able to see but there was an angular fitting that did have a leak. >> it was a fluid leak on one of the two pods. those are the mechanisms that