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you know, a subsurface well failure, the well was designed to take that load when it was originally drilled, and if it does fail, it could fail very deep. the fluids would never reach the surface in that case. so all in all, this is just pure positive news coming out of the gulf this morning. i really think so. the fact that they ve got a mechanically engaged seal that s basically a flange instead of a slip-on friction seal, if you will, that s a great improvement. darryl, a lot of people have been asking the question. perhaps we just don t know how long things take from an engineering standpoint, but why didn t they think of this sooner? we talk about the large cement containment dome, then a smaller one, this top hat that was not fitting exactly right, a little bit lopsided.
moment. and so cuba s making headlines without this news. what s interesting is fidel coming on state television, making headlines again around the world. but things here in cuba unearthed very serious domestic issues that are taking place. fidel choosing to speak about international issues. david, i got to ask you, most of our viewers don t speak spanish so we re just listening to his sounds. does he come across as lucid and coherent? the reason i ask that, is he is accusing the u.s. now of sinking the south korean ship to try to provoke hostilities with north korea, kind of an odd out-there theory. reporter: right. well this is par for the course in some of these columns and blogs that he s written but he does look in terms of his health, he was able to come on television last night. he s been able to pen these columns and articles so that has
work? reporter: well, kind of a big picture question really. this kind of goes back to the criticism of the oil industry in this particular case that a lot of this technology just didn t exist a few months ago when this disaster struck. so a lot of this technology has been developed and bp officials say this simply just wasn t ready. a lot of this has been worked on, trial and error kind of engineering on the fly. if you remember back in to may, different versions of these types of caps have been experimented with and they ve kind of been learning from the mistakes of the previous weeks an months. they say if this would have been ready back in may, they would have done it but it is just ready now. the white house meanwhile also issuing a new deepwater oil drilling moratorium after the courts overruled the first one. what s been the reaction among people in the gulf to the news that they could perhaps get their way this time the white house when it comes to stopping deepwater drilli