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And it is outrageous that 90% of the safety documentation is missing. >> reporter: last month, two dozen members of congress sent a letter to the administration asking for the rig to be shut down. >> why can't you just go out to the rig, look around and see if everything is in order or snot. >> well, for one thing, the bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet into the sea and then even deeper into where the oil is, so a lot of these components aren't visible from the platform. >> reporter: bp says reports claiming the operating with incomplete or inaccurate documents aren't true and operators have access t...

Diagrams, the drawings that show you how to put it together, you'll get a surprise. 90%, that's right, 90% of the safety documentation was missing as of the end of 2008. that's according to the advocacy group water and food watch getting the information from a bp supervisor turned whistle-blower. the group says it's an accident waiting to happen and in court seeking an injunction claiming it needs to be shut down now because in an emergency no one would know how to. >> in a production facility, there are millions of components, moving parts, that the operator needs to know where they are to tu...

Sits bp's monster of an oil rig. it's atlantis. when you ask for the engineering documents, the blueprints, the schematics that show you how to put this thing together, you'll get a surprise. 90%, that's right, 90% of the safety documentation was missing as of the end of 2008. that's according to the advocacy group food and water watch who got the information from a bp supervisor turned whistle-blower. the group says it's an accident waiting to happen and in court seeking an injunction claiming it needs to be shut down now because in an emergency no one would know how to. >> in a production fa...

Parts that the operator needs to know where they are to turn it on, to shut it off in case of an accident. and it's outrageous that 90% of this safety documentation is missing. >> the whistleblower himself is schedule to testify for congress this week and last month two dozen members of congress sent a letter to the administration, asking for the rig to be shut down. >> why can't you go out to the rig, look around and see if everything is in order or not? >> for one thing, bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet into the sea and even deeper where the oil is. a lot of these components aren't visible from t...

As the oil disaster of the gulf plays out, some other catastrophe like this one could happen off of the deepwater of louisiana. here is joe johns. >> reporter: 122 miles off of the louisiana coast in deeper water and able to pump more water than any deeper horizon does sits bp's monster oil rig, and they call it atlantis, and they say it runs on technology that rivals the space shuttle. when they show you the schematics and how this thing is put together, 90% -- that is right, 90% of the safety documentation for atlantis is missing as of 2008 which is according to the food and advocacy group f...