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>> what happened, keith, they shut that ram in a couple of hours ago. in fact, it was right after kent welles' technical briefing. and that's done hydraulically, and it closes pretty quickly, because it's a ram, and it's a blind ram that closes off that entire opening. that diverts the flow to these side valves. there's two in the old legacy stack and there's two in this new stack. and they've been gradually closing the side valves. the only one we can see is on the rov feed is the one on the left and it looks like only one is open, but you can't see the bottom valves, so i'm not sure exactly ...

Welles' technical briefing. and that's done hydraulically, and it closes pretty quickly, because it's a ram, and it's a blind ram that closes off that entire opening. that diverts the flow to these side valves. there's two in the old legacy stack and there's two in this new stack. and they've been gradually closing the side valves. the only one we can see is on the rov feed is the one on the left and it looks like only one is open, but you can't see the bottom valves, so i'm not sure exactly how many they have closed. >> any idea why the government's delay could not have come before bp took th...

Hours ago. in fact, it was right after kent welles' technical briefing. and that's done hydraulically, and it closes pretty quickly, because it's a ram, and it's a blind ram that closes off that entire opening. that diverts the flow to these side valves. there's two in the old legacy stack and there's two in this new stack. and they've been gradually closing the side valves. the only one we can see is on the rov feed is the one on the left, and it looks like only one is open, but you can't see the bottom valves, so i'm not sure exactly how many they have closed. >> any idea why the government'...