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have experience operating, are we any better in terms of dealing with deep water emergencies? you know, the challenge we have here in deep water is control the well itself. we have done nothing to improve the prisb)y control device which is the blow out preventer. we still have that almost 50% failure rate that you and i have talked about before in deep water. so if something does go wrong, there s a 45% to 50% chance that the well is going to lose control. there are a couple of well containment organizations that you mentioned in your introduction that is in place, but the thing that everyone ignores is the fact that there s a massive drilling rig that sits above these wells and 5,000 or 10,000 feet of pipe that goes from the rig to the ocean floor, that has to go somewhere if it sinks. and generally it s going to be on top of the well head. so i think the 17-day number is a really wild number, because

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