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Doesn't bother me. the film crew -- the television crew was having a tough time with it. >> having seen it in the flesh, is your impression worse from a distance? have you gotten any encouragement or discouragement from what you saw? >> you know, the scale of the operation, keith, this has got to be the largest offshore operation ever undertaken. there's three semi submersibles there plus a drill ship and 30 other ships. the coast guard told us they have over 700 people in this operation on a continuous basis. the effort is massive. it shows the weakness in our system where the technology, whe...

Six years out in the gulf. when you first heard about this disaster, what went through your mind? >> well, my first reaction, of course, was just sympathy and empathy for the men that lost their lives and their families. that was one of the first things i learned when i went to work offshore. i worked in the oil field for ten years, worked in the gulf of mexico on six of those years in the drilling rigs. when i went to work, they just lost a drill ship in the china sea and it was just felt throughout the entire company. i mean, i had men on the rig that i worked on who knew men that had died o...

Is where do we begin, josh? >> let's do a little bit of both. what we had from allen and a little bit of what our viewers are talking about. i want to recap what he said. it was so interesting and important. he said they managed to collect 25,000 barrels yesterday. the reason that is so significant, that's a big judgment from what we were seeing the day before when they collected 18 thousand barrels. what he is talking about, they have two ships operating. international drill ship here. each of them is working differently. enterprise drillship collectses and the q4000 burns. the amount of oil ...

When i went to work, they just lost a drill ship in the china sea and it was just felt throughout the entire company. i mean, i had men on the rig that i worked on who knew men that had died on that drill ship. and any time that happens, i mean, you know, it is a big family out there. >> the workers i've talked to, whether from the deepwater horizon or other rigs say it's crucial that you be able to stop for safety, that if you feel you're doing something dangerous out on the rig, that you have the ability and everybody has ability. is that something when you were working out there that that w...

Enterprise. about 15,000 barrels on monday. skip ahead to wednesday now where they have both ships going, this is what we got. we got about 15,000 barrels collected on the one drill ship. and 3,850 barrels flared from the new ship. put it together and we've gotten a little bump. in general they're saying 14,000 to 15,000 barrels collected each day. now over 18,000 barrels collected. so we're seeing a little increase, a little bit of good news from the addition of that additional ship there. it means they are pulling up more oil out of the water. that said, ali, we keep hearing more and more di...