there was lots and lots of swearing. it was not random swearing. i don t even think it was swearing in anger. it makes sense why there was swearing, but still, a ton of swearing. did you see this? look what your sales team was saying about timber wolf. boy, that timber wolf was one [ bleep ] deal. they sold that [ bleep ] e-mail. this was from the head of the division not the sales force. whatever it was, it s an internal goldman document. this was an e-mail to me in late june. right, after timber wolf no, no, you sold timber wolf after as well. we did trades after that. okay, and the trades after some context might be helpful. the context is mighty clear. june 22 is the date of this e-mail.
could take three months to drill relief wells that would divert the oil into a storage facility. 16,000 barrels a day the spill could amount to 4 million gallons of oil spilling into the gulf of mexico before all is said and done, a little less than half the amount of oil spilled from the exxon valdez into alaska s prince william sound 21 years ago. joining us now commander richard schultz, commanding officer of the u.s. coast guard atlantic strike team. thank you for your time tonight, commander, really appreciate it. you re welcome. glad to be here. what you tell butts overall cleanup in the contain efforts and what have been tried thus far? we have tried a number of different things to try to contain and mid myth gate the oil spill that is on the surface now and do things below the surfacez, he s indicated, 5,000 some odd feet below the surface. we have done disbursement applications, chemical disbursement applications to try to disburse the amount of oil, break up into smalle