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reporter: dave ballet built this marina 25 years ago. the fishermen here are like his sons. if they were just kind of living on the money they made last season, it s probably about to run out. these guys are worried. the charter boat captains, they re worried. the phones are not ringing. reporter: and, david, that huge steel box is now waiting at the bottom of the sea floor until bp engineers can figure out what to do with it, ow to solve that problem with the crystals if they can solve it at all. meantime, only other solution is digging a relief well 18,000 feet down to plug that damaged well for good. but, david, ha could take months. month, matt guttman again tonight thanks very much. reporter: and the fishermen and bp may be getting a little involving that dome we re also learning more tonight about what caused that explosion in the first place. sending some 3 million gallons of oil and counting pouring into the gulf. it was a horrific chain of events described