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>> so, when they're searching, all those probabilities are, you know, taken into account. are they in a raft? you know, they could be floating on a piece of equipment. they could be, you know, if they're wearing life jacket, you know, they could be in the water, all those different things we take into consideration. so, that's why we surface assets as well as air and get out there and do a very intensive search. >> okay. senior chief petty officer michael o'berry, stand by. he's with the u.s. coast guard. breaking news in right now that we're covering. the deepwater horizon, the oil rig that h...

Crew members from that rig. you heard him talking about the heat, suzanne. what he experienced there, he said that he could only step outside onto the deck for about a minute at a time, because of the heat was so intense. he said other boats actually had to peel away and move back when their exterior equipment started to melt. >> thank you, david. i can only imagine what that was like for those people there on the rig. thank you very much. joining us on the phone now with more is our senior chief petty officer michael o'berry. he is with the u.s. coast guard. thank you, sir, for joining us. ...

Technology of onstar to help keep you safe. from new energy solutions. to the designs of tomorrow. we invite you to take a look at the new gm. senior chief petty officer michael o'berry joins me on the line. he's with the u.s. coast guard, he's been keeping us up to date on what's going on with the oil rig, the deepwater horizon, and unfortunately we've just learned that oil rig has sunk. he continues with me on the phone. you've got two things going on, michael. you've got now the efforts to deal with the remediation of all the oil that is coming out of that -- that hole, that that rig was ...

Here, but there's so many different components that could have a failure issue. could you have had a pump up on the surface fail that was keeping the pressure of the mud that -- that's flowing down there, to keep the hydrocarbons at bay while you're putting the cement in. there's so many different variables where it could happen, but they were at the point where they were really getting the well bore itself ready for production, which is, you know, putting big steel pipes down there, putting cement down there, and believe it or not you can do cement underwater. letting it dry and then doing mo...

Balloon. >> much later in the life of a well, you then have to start putting water or mud in or things to get the oil out, right? >> enhanced oil recovery. you pump in co2, for instance, they do that on ground, on shore. >> mike o'berry, this is what we're dealing with. we have a pressure thing, something is pushing oil into the gulf of mexico. we believe it might be 336,000 gallons of oil per day. two issues, we have teams coming in dealing with the environmental aspect. you have teams coming in that have to cap the well. what else do teams have to do? do you have to keep people out of the ar...