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Necklace of hell. >> yeah. unfortunately, tidy bowl isn't going to clean this up. it's probably going to cost us many, many billions of dollars, and with every oncoming high tide, we get this oil. what's really spooky, is you go to that oil strip and you dig down about six to eight inches, you find the oil from the previous tide, because when that tide comes in, it brings more sand. of course, this is just the tiny little kiss of this oil spill. when you go along the coast of venice and other parts of louisiana, you see the true destructive nature of this unprecedented oil spill. but until the...

Efforts taking place to rescue oil-soaked efforts along the coast is also inhibited by this. it's threatening to destroy some of the animal habitats. msnbc science and environmental expert jeff corwin is live from pensacola, florida. jeff, have you seen any signs of oil in the sand where you are today? >> good afternoon, thomas. as can you see, it's a stormy, blustery day here in pensacola beach in florida. this beach should be covered with tourists. instead, it's covered with a cleanup crew and with this. i mean, oil, wherever you look. i don't know, thomas. can you sort of see where i'm stan...

And obviously, nobody wants to drill unsafe. the bp disaster was unpredictable, but the question is, do you deal with this with a scalpel or sledge hammer? and with ebelieve the scalpel is better. >> there have been tragedy all of the way around with the oil spill disaster and the recovery effort, there have been two deaths. one man is a fishing boat captain for two decades, and he lost his livelihood, and decided to be a part of the cleanup crew for bp, and we understand that he apparently shot and killed himself. can you give us a sense of this psychological toll, the type of damage that has...

Correlating a disease with say alcohol or smoking. so you have to control the variables. bp is setting up centers to keep track of the people complaining of short term effects. the cdc is asking poison centers to track and follow the people. >> neil: you have to look at those anomalies. with 9/11 we had a spike in lung-related irish. issues. >> it's going to be difficult to say and always will be difficult to prove, just because you were a rescue or part of the cleanup crew in the gulf, that ten years later you ended up with infertility or lung problems. it is going to be hard to do that unles...

Underwent what is known as hazmat training, hazardous materials training. anyone, any of the first responders, whether you're a worker out there saving wildlife, part of a cleanup crew or you're with the u.s. coast guard, everyone has to be through this hazmat training. it's a very intensive four-hour course. some of these courses are 40 hours long. it really depends where you're going to be in this spill whether you're at the source or the site where it starts watching up onshore. i actually brought some things to show you, alex. for example, this is one of the suits that everyone has to wear...