12th, i asked and revealed that the blowout preventer was modified in ways that it wouldn t work, okay. one modification, for instance, was to remove the important variable boar ram and replaced it with a test ram that made it ineffective. at our hearing i asked mr. mckay, the president of bp america about these modifications. he testified under oath. he took the oath, and he said he didn t know anything about modifications. we ve since learn that had bp approved modifications despite being warned that it would reduce the safety of the blowout preve preventer. this is tab number ten. here s the letter from 20 2004 from transocean sent to bp that bp signed and acknowledged. bp acknowledges that the conversion you asked for, the conversion will reduce a built-in redundancy, potentially