some standby team or something we don t know of? i have to tell you, rachel, when i was out at the well sight, the horizon well sight earlier this week, and we were sitting in pools of oil for miles. i have to tell you there was not a skimming boat within ten miles of our boat. so i don t think that they ve got to have everything activated. they don t have enough for this response, much less another response. the other thing that concerns me is that we have a problem that is not plateauing. it gets worse every single day. the amount of oil in the water and steaming toward shore and landing on shore every day becomes a larger number based on how much is coming out of the pipe that day. it feels like we need to be able to proportionally increase the containment and cleanup response. from what you re saying, it sounds like you re telling me that there s just nothing else
keep on drilling in the gulf of mexico, as this existing disaster effort continues. are there any resources that aren t being tapped here if there wasn t another accident? some standby team or something we don t know of? i have to tell you, rachel, when i was out at the well sight, the horizon well sight earlier this week, and we were sitting in pools of oil for miles. i have to tell you there was not a skimming boat within ten miles of our boat. so i don t think that they ve got to have everything activated. they don t have enough for this response, much less another response. the other thing that concerns me is that we have a problem that is not plateauing. it gets worse every single day. the amount of oil in the water and steaming toward shore and landing on shore every day becomes a larger number based on how much is coming out of the pipe that day. it feels like we need to be able to proportionally increase the containment and cleanup
is significant to battling something of this magnitude. the imagery can be crucial when determining when and where to deploy boats and people. throughout much of the flight, there was an undeniable sense of futility. one of the vessels out there trying to clean the oil off the surface. infrared, oil hotter than water is represented by all the white. here is the white boat right here, the dark pathway here, that is sea water cleaned of oil. as you can see, the further back you go from the skimming boat, the oil now bleeding in the path. oil all over the place here. for two straight months now, the oil from b.p. deepwater horizon disaster spewed to the gulf. flotilla of ships sits above the well. large discovery enterprise siphoning oil on board and turning off the methane gas coming off the flight. this is the evergreen burner, torching collecting crude on scene. overall for this crew, the
skimming vessels out there trying to clean the oil off the surface. now in infrared the oil, which is hotter than water is, represented by all of this white. here is the white boat right here. the dark pathway here that s sea water cleaned of oil. as can you seat further back you go from the skimming boat the oil now pleading all into the path. and for this crew, pretty overwhelming. look at all the freaking oil down there. that plane is also quite effective at mapping large incidents like forest fires in the inform the military guys on that plane had fully intended to map the entirety of this oil spill but shocking to them, they had to turn around and fly back before finishing the job to refuel. the oil spill, shep, is simply that large. shepard: phil keating in our south florida newsroom tonight. phil, thanks for that for anyone not familiar with the gulf coast region, it may be a little hard to comprehend the scale of this thing. even the highest aerial video
president the president basically said today that he s going to judge bp s performance basically by basically it sounded to me like the noise level coming around here. if you people down there along the gulf aren t satisfied, the president is not going to besou that s what he was saying today. politically because we re not satisfied today. there s 30,000 skimming boats in the world and 59% of every skimming boat in the world needs to be in the gulf of mexico and we need to be dealing with this spill out in the gulf of mexico, not in our waterways, inland waterways i keep bringing that up having talked to an expert, john hofmeister, head of shell, and i kept getting, i talked last night to carol browner who knows the environment issue and she said it s being looked at. i keep getting pushed back on this. what are they saying to you when they say there s a lot of boats in the world? they have them over in holland and different parts of europe. we ve got private enterprise