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Maybe a 60-knot wind. these are enormous rigs, three and two. they're a football field wide by a football field wide, 50,000-ton vessels. they're very stable and waves and winds, they're designed to withstand 100-knot winds and 40, 50, even 60-foot seas so they need to stay drilling as long as is safely possible. if they have to disconnect from the drill string, which is a fixed structure, we understand that, but they shouldn't move off to florida, spend a week getting back on site. if they miss a week of drilling the relief wells, that's equivalent to another exxon valdez or two going into th...

Off the site threshold. but i think they ought to push that envelope a little higher to maybe a 60-knot wind. these are enormous rigs, the development dw development rigs, three and two. they're a football field wide by a football field wide, 50,000-ton vessels. they're very stable and waves and winds, they're designed to withstand 100-knot winds and 40, 50, even 60-foot seas so they need to stay drilling as long as is safely possible. if they have to disconnect from the drill string, which is a fixed structure, we understand that, but they shouldn't move off to florida, spend a week getting b...

Off the site threshold. but i think they ought to push that envelope a little higher to maybe a 60-knot wind. these are enormous rigs, three and two. they're a football field wide by a football field wide, 50,000-ton vessels. they're very stable and waves and winds, they're designed to withstand 100-knot winds and 40, 50, even 60-foot seas so they need to stay drilling as long as is safely possible. if they have to disconnect from the drill string, which is a fixed structure, we understand that, but they shouldn't move off to florida, spend a week getting back on site. if they miss a week of d...

Help seek that pipe. they can turn the drill string towards the well. and there's a good chance they can hit it in the first or second try. hopefully. >> you have a good sense it's going to work? >> i feel like it's going to help. >> reporter: a lot of people are hoping that is the case. maybe in mid-august, maybe earlier. but one last thing, keith, i ought to mention is it stinks out here. the sun is hot, it's evaporating some of the oil. and at times, i've gotten a little dizzy out here, and that's not from the motion of the ocean, it's very noxious. keith? >> reporting to us from the gulf. ...

A half of those 86 days to make sure that we don't have a crack in the casing down below the sea floor. now, i understand they couldn't evaluate this until now. you know, this stuff, my kooky little models here, none of this stuff existed before this blowout, before this explosion that killed 11 people. so these guys, the people working on this are designing and building these fixtures as they go. and i think you can see in the video we're showing now, the end of the drill -- the end of the casing, the drill string, the oil well has been cut off much more cleanly than it was in previous weeks....