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Ard oil platforms that look like this but under federal law ikey're required to be removed in the next few years. ea when we put these platforms in we had no idea they were going to develop into these massive artificial reefs. they are more environmentally valuable in the water than they are scrap out of the water. >> reporter: ronnie anderson, a fourth generation shrimp fisherman, couldn't disagree more strongly. you'd like to see those old rigs gone. >> yeah, i would like to see it cleaned up. o> reporter: the gulf bottom, he says, is littered with old pieces of oil rigs that get caught in h...

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>> reporter: 14 people total across the mountainous waves and the two-hour flight back to land. jenny fields was one of the pilots. >> as we left the scene, some got emotional realizing they had left shipmates behind. >> reporter: partly because two sailors are still missing. this chopper going back to look. this boat featured in "mutiny on the bounty" and "pirates of the caribbean." about kuft accustomed to those seas. look at it in this video two years ago, and the ship's captain facebooking "it's safer at sea than port, but it loses its generator, the "bounty" is taking on water. the crew h...

In the 1962 film "mutemy on the bounty" was at the center of a real-life drama today. the ship was battered by hurricane sandy and sank. the crew had to be rescued. david martin has the story. >> reporter: coast guard rescue swimmer dan todd was lowered into 18-foot seas 90 miles off the coast of north carolina. he swam to one of two life rafts holding 14 survivors. >> there's two people remaining in there. >> reporter: the three masted ship-- h.m.s. "bounty" was sailing from connecticut to ship-- h.m.s. "bounty" was sailing from connecticut to florida when it foundered. the coast guard homed ...

But president obama came in a close second when the green president suddenly sounded like a texas oil man. >> we're actually drilling more on public lands than in the previous administration. and my -- the previous president was an oil man. >> reporter: not true. leases and permits for oil drilling on public lands are actually down by about 40% over the last three years. and the biggest shocker of the night? obama and romney broke their own 21-page debate agreement. it called for each of them to stay in their own pre-designated areas. so much for that. instead, they seemed to imitate gladiator...