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Control the well itself. we have done nothing to improve the primary control device which is the blow out preventer. we still have that almost 50% failure rate that you and i have talked about before in deep water. if something does go wrong, there's a chance the well will lose control. there's a couple of well containment organizations that you mentioned in your introduction that is in place. the thing that everyone ignores is the fact that there's a massive drilling rig that sits above these wells in 5 or 10,000 feet of pipe that goes from the rig to the ocean floor. that has to go somewhere...

Have experience operating, are we any better in terms of dealing with deep water emergencies? >> you know, the challenge we have here in deep water is control the well itself. we have done nothing to improve the prisb)y control device which is the blow out preventer. we still have that almost 50% failure rate that you and i have talked about before in deep water. so if something does go wrong, there's a 45% to 50% chance that the well is going to lose control. there are a couple of well containment organizations that you mentioned in your introduction that is in place, but the thing that every...

Room for error. in the rare instances where things do go wrong, the results can be dreadful. like this heart stopper of a moment on a texas racetrack. a fender bender sends a drag race way off track. >> it looks like a model car out there coming apart and somebody stuck a fire cracker in it or something. >> january 14th, 2004. racer galen smith relaxes before his run by watching two tear up the track. >> couldn't ask for nicer weather. mid-70s, no wind, clear day, perfect day for racing. tommy adams was the driver of the yellow car and david hugo was the driver of the lumina in the right lane....

Welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. drag racers can go from 0 to 125 in just ten seconds. that's so quick it leaves little room for error. in the rare instances where things do go wrong, the results can be dreadful. like this heart stopper of a moment on a texas race track. a fender bender sends a drag race way off track. >> it looks like a model car out there coming apart and somebody stuck a fire cracker in it or something. january 14th, 2004. racer smith relaxes before his run while watching two tear up the track. >> couldn't ask for nicer weather. mid-70s, clear day, p...

Drag racers can go from 0 to 125 in just ten seconds. that's so quick it leaves little room for error. in the rare instances where things do go wrong, the results can be dreadful. like this heartstopper of a moment on a texas race track. a fender bender sends a drag race way off track. >> it looks like a model car out there coming apart and somebody stuck a fire cracker in it or something. january 14th, 2004. racer smith relaxes before his run while watching two tear up the trackp. >> couldn't ask for nicer weather. mid-70s, clear day, perfect day for racing. tommy adams was the driver of