oil in the gulf of mexico. our amber lyon live up there in that blimp. are you able to hear us okay, amber? reporter: i can t hear. still having trouble hearing her? amber, are you hearing me okay. reporter: we re having a little communications issues here. it s hard to hear over the loud engineses on the side of us. we are headed away from the alabama coastline out deeper over the gulf of mexico to continue to look for oil and any injured marine life. now, some things we ve seen so far. we haven t seen any of those big oil slicks but we are talking with a couple of the lieutenants on board and when we flew closer to the coast, they saw brown patches in the water and that concerns them because that is huge patches of bait fish and they say normally they are about a mile away from the shore but
tell there is oil here because you get a free one. it s kind of become the hidden huh. smarter. oil. [ male announcer ] accumulate 10 nights and get a night free. and amber lyon joins us live welcomerewards from hotels.com. smart. so smart. from new orleans. great to see you. the prices. that s a terrific view you and the team provided for us. the profits. what did you learn, take-aways? the pollution. anything surprise you? what s next from the big oil companies? reporter: i think what a multi-million dollar smear campaign. surprised me the most as an avid .to stop clean energy legislation from passing in the us senate. scuba diver is the amount of the little beads of oil in the first the clean energy bill will produce more power here in america for us. 20 feet of the water column. it made it very hard to see and big oil knows that means less dependence on them. philippe just a couple of feet away from me, like a cloudy film it s time to take charge with clean american energy. bet
surface, but seeing a lot of oil underneath the surface. as many people have said, this is a science experiment. they re saying putting dispurr sant dispersant in the water is the lesser of two evils. is it if you don t know the long-term effects on the mixture on human animals, for that matter. that s why you saw us in the hazmat suits today. you are a diver, i assume, amber, to have done something like this. the marine life people have dived recreationally so they can see the marine life. what was it like? did you see much? one big concern is on the way out there, we didn t see bait fish. they normally see bait fish in the upper water. that concerned them. in the water, we saw sharks swimming around us.
pieces of dispersed oil on it. in addition to that, we had a crew of fishermen and local boat captains with us. they said they were most concerned about the fact the lack of bait fish in the water, also about the lack of tuna they were seeing, and i m an avid diver and i think what got me the most about this dive is normally when you re on a hot boat all day the first thing you want to do is jump into the water, it s refreshing, and in this case after looking at foamy pieces of dispersed oil, foamy like pad pattys of it on top of the water you had a disgusting feeling when you were getting into the gulf of mexico and it was pretty upsetting for most of us, especially philippe coust u cousteau. what is philippe going to do with this information after making this dive with you? reporter: i think he wants to philippe is really big on telling stories with pictures and really spreading the word to the public about what he believes is going on in the gulf of mexico.
seeing a lot of oil underneath the surface. and as many people have said, this is kind of a science experiment. they re saying putting dispersants in the water is the lesser of two evils. but some are saying is it really the lesser of two evils when we don t really know the long-term effects of the dispersant-crude mixture on humans or animals for that matter. that s why you saw some of the hazmat suits today, sanjay. well, what you are a diver, i assume, amber, to have done something like this. the marine life, people dived recreationally to see what they can see. the marine life, what was it like? could you see snuch. one thing that concerned captains, on the way out there, they didn t see bait fish. and those weren t there. that concerned them. but when we were in the water, we did see some sharks swimming around us. and so that was a good sign to see them alive.