fear the company has set a precedent that will strike a blow to academic freedom richard camilli and christopher ruddy there are two oceanographers who work at woods hole oceanographic institute in massachusetts and they responded to an appeal for help from b.p. and the coast guard after the deepwater horizon spill in april two thousand and ten their expertise studying the ocean was needed so using robotic submarines that to study the flow of oil from the cracked well they determined and the spill released four point nine million barrels of crude into the gulf but because b.p. is engaged in costly lawsuits battling government fines of the local state and federal levels well they aren't as camilli and ready to turn over their findings so the two scientists first said that they volunteered more than fifty thousand pages of documents raw data reports algorithms all used in their research research that was thoroughly vetted and as committee explained it september of two thousand and ten in congressional testimony. you know order to avoid subjective boise's are actually misrepresentation