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Those are the mechanisms that control the blow-out preventer. if they don't work, the blow-out preventer doesn't work. a leak, even if only a trickle, is a warning. >> yeah. it's abnormal. >> abnormal enough that you reported it to your company, to transocean, to bp? >> that's correct. >> one pod is always working. the other, says university of texas petroleum engineer tad patzek, is designed as its immediate backup. >> i don't think there's any discussion of that basic fact. and the basic fact is that you have to do whatever it takes to fix fully the blow-out preventer as soon as you can. >> ...

Canada. we'll have more suction devices than ever in the water next week. >> do you have a sense of how many you're going to have? the governor said he would love to see 100 of them. >> we bought everything they had, 20 something and asked them for a production schedule. these things work, suck up the oil. they're quick, can get in close where the birds are. we could save a lot of wildlife, marshland. we seem to be getting the support from the coast guard. we're optimistic and we think we got a team we can work with on the ground now. >> billy, appreciate it. >> thank you so much. next, wait...

Than ever in the water next week. >> do you have a sense of how many you're going to have? the governor said he would love to see 100 of them. >> we bought everything they had, 20 something and asked them for a production schedule. these things work, suck up the oil. they're quick, can get in close where the birds are. we could save a lot of wildlife, marshland. we seem to be getting the support from the coast guard. we're optimistic and we think we got a team we can work with on the ground now. >> billy, appreciate it. >> thank you so much. next, waiting for work, a bp program to hire fishe...

What happened after the discovery was made. >> tyrone benton may well have seen the first signs that something was very, very wrong on the deepwater horizon. >> did you ever get close enough to the leak to see what exactly was leaking? >> yes. we flew down to the pod and saw that there was an angular fitting that had a leak on it. what was connected to the angular fitting, wasn't anal to see. but an angular fitting did have a leak. >> the mechanisms that control the blow-out preventer. if they don't work, the blow-out preventer doesn't work. a leak, even if only a trickle, is a warning. >> yea...

For a desperate time. >> that's what it's designed for. >> as co-owners of dragon boat, they spent their lives on the water and were sickened by animals dying in the catastrophe and so they set out to dramatically modify a line of their boats to come to a rescue. >> you drew this thing up on a cocktail napkin? >> yeah. it was a quickie. >> where are you in the process now? >> we're trying to produce a boat like every seven days right now for this. >> completely funded by donations and on their own time, the men consulted wildlife biologists to produce what they believe is the first boat ever m...