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Are you okay, bammer? >> reporter: yeah. we're about 48 highlies away from the deepwater horizon spill, and if you look in the water, you can see that its cloudy. >> the oil isn't confined to the surface. it is distributed throughout the water columns. >> reporter: i was talking to bp's ceo, doug suttles, and i said, how is it going to be cleaned up because there is no technology to come down here and skim this out of here, and he said bacteria will eat it up. >> yes, there is bacteria that consumes oil in the water, but scientists are finding that bacteria also consumes oxygen, so when you ge...

Pounds of water coming up. i grew up in utah. for 25 years we tested thousands of upside ground hydrogen bomb explosions. they didn't cause tremors in las vegas. this isn't risky. it's the only solution. >> how would the solution work slowly? >> you get a seven-inch wide device. it's about this long, i'm told. from a seabed all the way down 18,000 feet, you're on top of the oil column, and you press a button. instantly the fusion turns the rock to glass. over, done. >> what would the risk in doing that be? >> that it didn't work. >> is there any other risk through the use of the bomb i

Difference between the hot oil and the colder water is creating density gradients so these dispersants aren't necessarily going to sink, they're going to travel in the oil column. when i hear b.p. say low toxici toxicity, this is not what the data sheets are really showing, it's not a very realistic picture. and what about the fish eggs that are in the water column now? for the crab eggs, for the oyster larvae. >> but this is a method that's getting endorsement by the epa? >> reporter: the epa only has to require these very old tests. so we have regulatory capture going on here where just beca...