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Official, significant pressure discrepancies were observed in at least two of these tests which were conducted just hours before the explosion. transocean, one of the world's largest operator of drilling rigs, says it has no reason to believe that the rigs fail-safe device called a blowout preventer, was not fully operational. but we've learned from cameron, the manufacturer of the blowout preventer, that the device had a leak in a crucial hydraulic system and a defectively configured rap. >> internal transocean documents reveal the fail safe blowout preventer had 260 known scenarios for failu...

This well. you've had some evidence of negligence already in a serious case. having said that, the tsa handles this issue domestically, and the plan is within a year to transition this no fly list into the tsa. in other words, it would be government controlled. i actually think that ought to be sped up. we ought to get it done as soon as possible. the no fly list is difficult because already they have had a missed match today of someone. >> right. >> so people are very sensitive about it. on the other hand, it is the fail safe. and my own view is to have a complete list you may have some misma...

Atmospheres, something like that. so the idea is to lower this thing down on top ever so carefully. >> let's take a look at this. >> this product of millions of dollars and years of research, to lower this thing down on top of this well, but it's under water. it's going to swing around. then you've got to get it in place. and then oil can come out from underneath it. >> yeah. >> so i've got to tell you, they call it a preventer. it's two valves. it's a valve on top of a valve. and it's really not, in my experience, they're not so-called fail-safe. if something breaks, they don't automatically ...

We know that what's happened here in the gulf has exceeded even what bp said was their worst-case scenario for this. should they have not been given approval to do this in the first place? >> raching, i think that is but one of many questions that we're all going to look for time to answer with facts. facts we're getting now, facts we'll continue to get. i think one thing is clear. that is there was supposed to be a fail-safe here, this blowout prevention valve. it's not safe at all. it hasn't worked. and sadly, there isn't much redundancy in that system. so what we're finding out is that bp n...

Bp right now. all has to be done with remotely operated vehicles. everything is being done because it looks like we had a failure pf the blowout preventer which is above the well that's supposed to close it down in times of emergency which appeared not to work. >> that's the big question. how does that not happen? how does a fail-safe procedure fail? >> i would defer to secretary salazar for follow-on comment. basically it's a multi-stage device that sits above the well head that can cut the pipe, crimp the pipe or put a rubber seal around it. there are various levels that can be actuated. it ...