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>> yeah. this is where we need to stay. >> you know, as we saw, there were two gentlemen there. i believe one was a diver, obviously, who headed to the ambulance, and beside him, may have been a part of the fire department. he was not in a dive suit. allen, if you were out in the weather, doing the work on the bank, you may be in a position where you're going to have serious issues of hypothermia yourself whether in the water or not. >> in this particular area, they have wind chill arne warnings. tulsa metro has wind chill warnings, and they have been on average from minus 15 to minus 25. >> w...

Boat with us and he says he used to enter the water in a normal dive suit but last time he went diving a couple weeks ago he saw a chemical cloud under the water and wasn't going to take any chances anymore. so he says because he doesn't have hazmat training, now he can't enter the water to do his research on corals and fish to see what type of effect this oil crude dispersant mixture is having on the gulf. kiran, drew? >> if you guys have to suit up to that extent to get in the water, did felipe cousteau give you any indication of what he thinks, what effect that is having on the marine life ...

Dive suit, yesterday, descended along the felipe cousteau to get a look at this water to see how the dispersants may have polluted the water. any idea what some environment lists or others might be thinking about felipe cousteau about news the old containment cap is removed by bp as hay make way for the new one? >> reporter: i haven't talked to felipe cousteau but he will be happy. they want bp to quit pumping dispersants in the water. we were diving around yesterday and saw little pieces of oil and according to felipe, that oil is toxic to fish eggs and larva. to explain that, one part per

Under water tumble. >> you can be completely out of control in a dry suit, because there is air that could be moving around in your suit. when you're in a wetsuit, you are completely in control. you can just sit there, get your buoyancy compensated right, you put nine pounds of lead on your hips, you get' vest, and you can go up and down, you go up, take air out of it and go down. you can be upside down if you want and never, ever move. when you're in a dry suit, it's completely different, because then this is not stuck to your body. there are air bubbles underneath you, and those air bubbles ...

Our chad myers is also a diver. he says the visibility isn't very good. but in the middle of your screen, you can spot that shark. we've seen sharks go by time and again. our photographer, rich brooks, is the one bringing us this live picture. he is outfitted in a special dive suit, a suit that will keep them protected from all of the oil dispersants and whatever else might be out there in the water ch not going to protect you from a shark necessarily. but he described those sharks as being four to five feet long. the cables are going up to is surface where our ore correspondent is. this was o...