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That means they have to pass under lots of bridges look the way, including this bridge right here, which we've marked on the map called the st. john's bridge. what happens happen too long is on that bridge or more specifically underneath it. it started this weekend, which this ship right here pulled into portland under the cover of darkness, you see the lights gleaming in the darkness there. that's a shell oil icebreaking. it's key to shell's efforts to try to drill the arctic for oil this summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack,...

Three months on the gulf of mexico floor. according to a federal judge three billion barrels of oil spewed into the water damaging coastlines from florida to texas. that same judge ruled bp's gross negligence and willful misconduct were to blame for the disaster. five years later bp tells us many lessons were learned. new technology has been implemented across the industry like enhanced blowout preventers. this giant piece of gear you're looking at now, developed by bp, and it is designed to prevent another spill we're told of this magnitude. >> capping stack is an enormous piece of equipment ...

Disaster. that new equipment has been developed, new technologies have been implemented, not just by the this oil giant but across the entire industry. you're looking at what is called a capping stack, a giant containment type vessel stories tall, that could now be deployed on top of a well head to stop a gusher like we saw here five years ago. also, enhancements were made to another vital piece of equipment. listen. >> one of the changes we made was to require all of our blowout preventers offshore to have two sets of what is called blind sheer ram. so that if there were a well control incide...

A headline for that hour, that minute, the next day, that, you know, this was a problem that was going to take some time to fix, but of course the media can be very impatient and you were the guy taking the questions. >> well, you're absolutely right. they want information every day. there's a 7 by 24 hour news cycle that needs to be filled but some of these things take a period of time. it took -- from the day the rig sunk, it took 85 days to build that capping stack, put it on and have it be successful. every day people wanted to know what would happen. sometimes there were delays because of...

Sense." that's what he said. >> breaking news tonight, no one down here is celebrating just yet. what you see is the new capping stack on top of bp's broken well. what you don't see not anymore is that huge cloud of oil leaking into the gulf. >> i grabbed the mike and told the people, and there was a loud cheer and applause. you could see it on the face of the fishermen, the feeling of finely there's light at the end of the tunnel. >> and with that, it ended. and that's the work of our producer and kelly daniel. you saw him about a year ago, younger in that piece, the president of the parish. ...