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Here for ten hours, if they wanted to. but it's -- what temperature is it in here right now? >> right now, inside the cabin, we have a temperature of 92 degrees with a heat index of 118. >> yeah. 118, ali. so that's why we're probably not going to be sticking around here for 10 to 12 hours, but these brave guys have been doing that for the past 11 days, as they have been out here on the coast off gulf shores testing this blimp to see how useful it will be in the skimming process. and as rob marciano said earlier, if they do spot anything on the blimp, we haven't seen any oil out there yet toda...

I just thought, you know -- i've been in show business a long time, and i know liars when i hear 'em, you know? and, you know, that thing couldn't have blown up without, you know -- i thought they were lying in the beginning. that was just me personally. >> so when you heard 1,000 barrels. >> total lie. that's what i thought. >> tomorrow, crews plan to test a giant tanker described as the world's largest oil skimmer. if the technology works, it could dramatically speed up the skimming process. cnn's ed lavendera takes us on a tour of the massive ship. >> this is how you get on the world's larg...

Nobody can be precise exactly how much oil is coming out, but that seems to be the steady estimate we've been getting for the past four or five days. the coast guard just held a briefing a short time ago giving us an idea of how the whole skimming process is going, going out there and skimming some of the oil and bringing it back. in fact, we just got some pictures of a skimmer that went by about five minutes ago. this has the ability to go out there and skim the water and then take in the water and the oil, separate it, and it can hold about 4,000 barrels of oil. there's a company called mari...