embedded, let s say heavy metals at the sea bottom could start creating problems for our health. but t optimistic it s optimistic, and i would not discourage anybody from eating seafood. however, i would say maybe pregnant women should be cautious. and also the excessive amount of seafood until you know for a fact that everything has been completely clear, and there s no reports, you know, limit to maybe once a week jenna: it looked pretty good. we talk a lot about health in general, seafood, people say don t eat too much of tuna, you re going to get mercury poisoning, so if you had to choose buying from the can or tuna, no, i would go for the shrimp in the gulf for sure because sometimes tuna does have, you know, high concentrations of mercury, and that could be more debt
like this haunting image of an underseas boneyard. except that we put it there. reporter: as we journey along with these creatures wait, what did he just say? except that we put it there. reporter: he s talking about that whale skull on the sea bottom? we had a scientist who had this killer whale skull, and we asked him if he would bring it, and then we put it at the bottom of the sea. reporter: back in the wolves movie that dead animal the whole pack is feeding on? we found a dead animal. there s lots of roadkill around. so we put it there. you hauled that animal we hauled that animal to that place. often in this situation, we didn t do it here, but often in this type of situation people who manage these animals will put m&ms or something tasty in the innards of a dead animals. an m&m-stuffed animal? to make the animals feed on it. reporter: oh, no. oh, yes, says chris palmer.
this a whale that is giving people in the gulf some hope. you ve got a hand in what many believe may be the next big thing which is the gunder boom. talk to me about it. what it can do that the booms currently in the water cannot do. well, in ocean springs, our board and i didn t have a lot of faith in the small booms you see all over the gulf coast. they re little more than a speed bump. we contracted with the anchor qea, a nationwide firm specializing in spill containment, and they came one this device that had been used in the valdez incident. it has a large boom about three to four feet above the water surface it is and designed to go on a particular footprint, taking into mind the soil sediment and the current. and the skirt of the boom is not just a measly 18 inches but would range from two feet down to 24 feet, following the contour of the sea bottom. that s the real problem here.