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>> no one listened and a few weeks later, tie ron benton was lying in his bunk on the deepwater horizon when the first explosion knocked him out of bed. the second covered him in debris, as he scrambled to find his flashlight, it was pitch black. >> panic on board, screaming? >> panic, screaming, people jumping overboard. it was completely chaos. and i could hear my supervisor telling everybody, let's go, let's go. let's get in the lifeboats. we've got to go. we've got to go. he kept his head. he kept his cool. most of us were just panicking and wanted to go like right now. but we had to wait ...

Preventer, find out what's wrong and fix it. >> anything less than that, you know, might have led or probably led to a major failure of the well and the results are well known. >> back on board the deepwater horizon several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous leak, that the bop, the blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. and it was taken care of? >> it wasn't taken care of. in order for it to be taken care of, you need to pull the whole bop, which would shut down production. from my understanding, they shut down one pod and wo...

Nobody in louisiana wants another spill, another explosion, another avoidable -- another tragic loss of life. we're also saying listen to the experts. let's do this right and do this safely. >> if politics and the economic impact wasn't an issue for you -- obviously as governor, that's a huge issue. economic impact on the people of your state. if that wasn't an issue, purely on safety grounds, how can you argue that some sort of pause does not make sense? >> i've agreed a pause makes sense. i have no problem with a pause. i have no problem saying we're stopping for a period of time and while w...

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