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Closest proximity to anyone there. so to me, if i was not getting any damage or any problem with what i was breathing, i don't think anybody else would either. >> jeff, thanks very much for joining us, jeff cantrell. burning that oil using the booms they supply. thanks for being with us, jeff. world cup time. world cup fever is still with us. if you are a watcher, what a day today was. so close. that sums it up for the u.s. team in its match against slow veen yachlt we're going live to pedro pinto in johannesburg. that's coming up next. for me to breathe.copd maked

It's key to this whole success, because they've got to be able to corral this oil. it has to be -- the boom has to be big enough and fire resistant enough to corral it so it can be -- it can be ignited and it can burn. i want to bring in a guest of mine, jeff cantrel, vice president of a company called elasttech, joining us from skype. he's one of those guys that's been out there like i was the other day, watching this process. jeff, one might argue that this oil burning process in a series of mishappens about this oil spill and things that aren't working, this has been the one thing that's ac...

So these burns are way bigger than we all imagined, and there's much more oil there than what we predicted that we would ever get into. so to me, that was the biggest -- >> the success of a longer burn has got to do with the fact that there's enough oil there and that these booms that you supply are able to be used the right way so they can corral the oil into a tighter space that can burn better? >> that's correct. the oil seems to change from day to day. and within this last week, the oil is in such fashion that it's in long streamers. so we can get on one of those long streaks and continue ...