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I'm thinking, if george w. bush didn't reaction -- didn't react for nine days it would be lead story on every newscast, every place, everywhere. am i right john fund? >> yes but the most important thing is regardless game game let's clean this up. the obama administration deserves fall for some things and bad luck in others. we didn't know the weather would change. we did know that the way you deal with an oil slick is well-known in science. you set it on fire. the light oil is burned off and the heavy oil drops to the ocean bottom that was not done. the 1990 oil pollution act requires that th...

I'm thinking, if george w. bush didn't reaction -- didn't react for nine days it would be lead story on every newscast, every place, everywhere. am i right john fund? >> yes but the most important thing is regardless game game let's clean this up. the obama administration deserves fall for some things and bad luck in others. we didn't know the weather would change. we did know that the way you deal with an oil slick is well-known in science. you set it on fire. the light oil is burned off and the heavy oil drops to the ocean bottom that was not done. the 1990 oil pollution act requires that th...

Of a drawing reputation and that's the buoy, it's sitting about 6,000 meters 18,000 feet above the floor, the ocean bottom. that's where they anchor this to and then there are sensors shall the buoy is sitting out here and waiting to see if there are any pressure changes of more water that moves over top of that and creates a larger pressure between the top and bottom and releases an emission that sends it up to the satellite and that gets sent to the tsunami warning center and they start to analyze the data. once it's triggered it gets into active mode and starts sending in the signals every ...

Over one of those buoys, we will know exactly how big the waves will be in hawaii, japan, australia, new zealand. this will certainly be a complete pacific wide event. >> chad, you make a good point. it's probably the most frightening, betty yused that word earlier. as the rolls around on the ocean it moves relatively little. if you were a fishing boat or freighter out there you wouldn't notice it. once it gets to a land mass, that ocean bottom gets more shallow it sneaks up on you like a big monster. these buoys that you're speaking of, huge addition to the pacific wide warning program. it's ...

Basically. >> so a wave in the ocean open. give me an idea of what your buoy -- >> buoys are seeing on the order in a 4-kilometer depth ocean as the whole water column moving something like 20 or 30 centimeters, translates to meters. >> so minuscule wave heights -- >> in the open ocean. >> in the open ocean grows by what time? by how many times? is it exponential? >> it'll vary with the coast it hits and the symmetry, the angle of the ocean bottom. >> okay. >> but as a rule, you're talking on order of centimeters going to meters. >> what do you think we'll say in respect to some of these harbo...