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The workers who died on the company's rig. ceo steven newman explaining, "the executive team made this decision because we believe it is the right thing to do." those are the transocean people acting out of embarrassment or maybe even contrition. but at least nodding toward the human decency that creates the capacity to feel shame. those are the people. and on the other hand, there's the transocean corporation. able to sense only the difference between profit and loss. the same way a cat uses its whiskers to walk around a house in the dark. and even as the humans inside transocean are having t...

Donate $225,000 in safety bonuses for the families of 11 workers killed when that rig exploded in the gulf of mexico. that happened last april. alison kosik is here with more details in today's currency report. alison? >> reporter: carol, just want to dial back and let you know how this began. on monday, transocean came out with a statement saying, quote, in 2010 we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company's history. of course, that is when we had that oil spill in the gulf. and transocean wound up apologizing. the explosion in the gulf was 2010 actually. transocean wound up...

Transocean calls 2010 o, quote, the best year in safety performance in the company's history. the company bases that apparently on what it describes as its exemplary statistical effort. >> that reminds me of a company's worst christmas card i've ever seen. merry christmas, hindenburg zeppelin associates. congratulations for 364 incident-free days of flying. >> straight ahead, paul ryan coming up. >> paul's coming up? >> yes. >> he's going to delight you. >> he's a nice boy. we've got a budget to talk about. ♪ sun in the sky ♪ you know how i feel i feel lighter than ever. i lost 52 pounds. ...

Recorded the best year in safety performance in our company history. to warn them not just boosting salaries, they are giving bonuses to the top execs. did we forget about the worst oil spill in u.s. history? transocean owned one killing 11 people. now there's an s.e.c. filing that shows that the ceo is going to get a bonus of $374,000. safety accounts for about a quarter of that bonus and getting a $200,000 bump in his salary as well. that brings his salary to just over $1 million. i have to be fair about this. transocean didn't award the total possible safety bonus. only two-thirds of it and...

I apologize for that. we're up about 7.5 points, not bad. always good to see it in the plus category. transocean is the company that brought us the worst oil spill in u.s. history. now it's handing out big bonuses to top executives and praising its safety record, calling 2010 the best year in safety ever. allison kosic is at the new york stock exchange. for a second i didn't think we were going to you. >> that's okay. there's so much to talk about transocean. i mean, this is a real head scratcher, carol. transocean says it's boosting the salary of its top execs. and on top of that, giving th...