through because the water is 80 degrees. the mixture, the oil and everything else that s in the water will not go through it. how heavy is this one? i would say her size, you have to be talking 30 pounds. she weighs 100 so 130. he s going to have the fins on. there s the hazmat suit. to our viewer, that s a breakdown from our chad myers. we are waiting for amber lion and philippe cousteau. they are out there searching, diving from one of these abandoned oil rigs here is what i was talking about. they re at this abandoned rig here. if you go to google earth, you can see them. there are many abandoned things
they re just off the coast of louisiana right now. 40 or 50 miles or so where from the deepwater horizon well is. they are going to different abandoned rigs right now to do their dive. they have made several attempts so far, like our chad myers said, they are the needle looking around in that haystack for the oil. we are trying to see the purpose of this it s to show you how the dispersants and the oil is taking an effect on the aquatic life down there. this is our correspondent, amber lion, she is showing that special suit that s been described almost as a hazmat suit because this needs to protect our people from that oil and all that stuff that s in the water right now. a lot of people aren t sure exactly what s in it and how it s having an affect on the marine life. a live picture, something that
has not been done before, we re going to show that to you. meanwhile, we are also keeping an eye on exactly what s happening with that oil well. thad allen, who s in charge of the whole oil response, says they re trying to put a different kind of seal on top. they re going to have to remove the one that s on now, put a better seal on, siphon up more oil. they expect to have that in place sometime this weekend. our reporter, amber lion, is out there right now. we heard from her just a little bit ago. she and philippe cousteau out there hunting for oil. take a listen. reporter: this is what we ve got here. we can t see any huge slicks of oil. but the problem is, it s because we don t know what s underneath the water that makes everyone a little weary. what we do know is that thousands of gallons of dispersa dispersant crude mix has been pumped into the gulf. we re going to be wearing these
with a dive master making sure everything is okay. then our amber lion, our correspondent, and then the environmentalist, philippe cousteau, who s been doing a lot of this type of diving but unable to bring you a live picture of it, this is the first time we ll be able to bring you a live picture of this. we want to remind you that the whole purpose of this is to really give you a different view and to cover this story in a way it hasn t been covered before. these dispersants they are speaking. let me see what these guys are talking about down there. that s pretty much all i can see because of the depth of the water. right now, seeing you okay and hearing you fine. okay, good. just tell me again what you re seeing down there.
according to our people, a clear picture, a clear signal and you have been seeing some of our every once in a while, a shark will go by. we have set this up, we have now a live picture we can bring you from the gulf. that was the test shot, showing you a little bit of how this is done, how it s being set up. but really intriguing, fascinating to see a live picture. a couple of sharks will go by every now and again. our correspondent, amber lion, is on standby to go down. we ll continue to bring you that live reporting. again, a first in this coverage of the oil disaster that we can bring you a live picture from below the surface as we hunt for how this oil and also these dispersants are having an effect on marine life. quick break.