there with a rescue litter. and we could properly hoist them to say helicopter and get them to further attention. >> lieutenant murray, coast guard goes out for so many different calls. and i know you've been out to rig fires before during hurricane katrina. when you get the call, luke at all the training you go through, when you get the call and hear that there's been a rig explosion, what goes through your mind? >> the first thing that goes through your mind is to weigh the risks and identify the hazards. we knew by seeing the flames over the horizon, this is going to be a very dangerous situation to approach. that's why we started at half a mile identifying the hazards because we knew that there were other assets in route that would be behind us. and we wanted to come up with a good risk assessment to determine what the hazards for those other assets coming in would be in a plan to mitigate those risks. that's why we immediately went to the supply vessel. we eliminated the fact that anyone would be in the water at that time.