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After getting the permits to start drilling, shell just made a hash of it. these are the two rigs they sent up there to start drilling. the one on of the left is called the "discoverer", the one on the right called the "kulic." last summer, the discoverer ran aground. four months after that, it had a fire break out in its engine room. then the u.s. coast guard found more than a dozen violations involving the rig's safety and pollution equipment. for example, the main engine pistons cooling water was contaminated with sludge and oil. the crew was skimming off the oil with a ladle in a bucket. t...

A hash of it. these are the two rigs they sent up there to start drilling. the one on of the left is called the "discoverer", the one on the right called the kulic. last summer, the discoverer ran aground. four months after that, it had a fire break out in its engine room. then the u.s. coast found more than a dozen violations involving the rig's safety and pollution equipment. for example, the main engine pistons cooling water was contaminated with sludge and oil. the crew was skimming off the oil in a ladle in a bucket. that's nice. safety violations led the coast guard to essentially detain...

After getting the permits to start drilling, shell just made a hash of it. these are the two rigs they sent up there to start drilling. the one on of the left is called the "discoverer", the one on the right called the "kulic." last summer, the discoverer ran aground. four months after that, it had a fire break out in its engine room. then the u.s. coast guard found more than a dozen violations involving the rig's safety and pollution equipment. for example, the main engine pistons cooling water was contaminated with sludge and oil. the crew was skimming off the oil with a ladle in a bucket. t...

Partly because of his good samaritan spirit and partly out of self-preservation. >> i am going to take this golf cart trail right here. i don't normally get to do this. >> i went up on the hill, went behind the homes and pulled my fire extinguisher out of my truck and got my shovel and started doing whatever i could do to put it out. >> the flames are spreading quickly over piles of dry pine needles on the ground and soon finds this fire is a more formidable opponent than expected. >> stop recording now and put all this stuff out. all right, i got that much of it out. there's still some other ...

>> the flames are spreading quickly over piles of dry pine needles on the ground and soon finds this fire is a more formidable opponent than expected. >> stop recording now and put all this stuff out. all right, i got that much of it out. there's still some other stuff burning right there. i ran out of extinguisher. all right, i came back with my shovel and put a little fire break right here. at least this house isn't going to burn. >> for the moment, richard has saved a stranger's house and he hopes he helped save his own in the process. but as he races back to his street, he realizes time is...