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Explosion. there was no indication beforehand that there was any problem on the rig. >> reporter: new orleans attorney bernie strauss has been approached for legal advice by civ several workers. he's close to taking on the case of two workers which will likely filed a lawsuit. neither of those worker nor others we approached would speak directly us to. they told strauss there wasn't just one explosion by several. anded -- >> they knew how to evacuate the rig but in a situation like this, it was fairly chaotic. some were jumping overboard. >> reporter: her husband carlos, a rig worker, gave her...

You know, it's an inherently dangerous business that they do, and, you know, the coast guard helps them make sure their safety procedures are in place, and there's 30,000 of these workers every day that go out to the gulf to do this work, and they're well trained and they work to try not to have these accidents, but on this day something went wrong, and now, you know, we're working with bp and transocean to try to find the cause. we're working on that investigation and we're going to -- so, you know, it doesn't happen again and also make sure we can control that pollution and do everything we ...

Has now sunk. this was a concern. we are getting more information about this. you're looking at pictures. these are taped pictures earlier of the battle to try and get that under control. but the deep water horizon, the name of the rig, operated by trans ocean been on behalf of bp, deep water horizon has sunk in the gulf of mexico. this is in modern times outside of a hurricane, lately, almost unheard of. there have been accidents, there have been fires, there have been some fatalities over the years. first of all, we have not seen an explosion or a mass i incident on a rig outside of a hurric...

More offshore oil drilling. is there something about rig wes should know about? >> obviously complicated pieces of equipment that are working in very dangerous environments. this particular rig is one of the newer ones and certainly the company trans ocean, the biggest driller and they've got a pretty good record of safety. the rigs themselves, it's dangerous, dirty work. they're working in extreme conditions with extreme pressure. any time you stick a pipe into the earth thousands of feet, you're dealing with a lot of pressure. of course, the hydro carbon. just by the nature, it's dangerous. ...

This. thank you for great input on that. we'll be back with bob and peter in the next hour. there really are remarkable issues. in the meantime, send me your comments on twitter and facebook. the questions you want those guys to answer so that you can understand this better because it's going to come to a vote. it may pass. this may become the law of the land. you need to know about it. i want to bring you back to a major news story, breaking news that that oil rig in the gulf of mexico that we've been following has sunk. that is an oil rig that is run by the company trans ocean. they are a ...