would be out of luck. she would be grounded. they've got the flotilla of ships and brain power of dc here and on the gulf coast. this will be one more tool to help use to battle the oil spill. >> one way to put it, reynolds, a controller, command center telling everybody where to go. there's oil here, get the skimmer boats over here and get the oil up. one more thing. i talked about a blimp. but a-whale, we've been talking about the skimmer ship billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel. are they ever going to get this thing out there and working? it seems like they've been testing and testing and testing. >> looks like it might be next week. you're talking about this being a whale literally. it's a freak of a boat. take a look at that thing. it's over the length of 3 1/2 football fields long, the size of a ten-story building in height in the water line to the bridge tower. it is a tremendous ship. and what they're doing is they've been doing a series of tests. last week they had to do it in some fairly rough seas.