mr. anderson, why did he ask you to pump up the andular.seemed to be a side discussion between you and mr. anderson? >> he just asked me. i said no, i can't do it. he said okay. that's as far as it went. >> do you donor mall maintenance on the b.o.p.? >> ye i do. >> when i was a cutter it was my job to do maintenance on the gun system, but there was a certain level of maintenance i can do on that. are you restricted to the type of maintenance you can go do on the b.o.p.? >> anything electronic i don't work on. i'm there with the electronic technician learning, but as far as doing it, no. >> okay. and so you perform normal plann planned maintenance that's identified by transocean to do -- >> that's correct. >> when you splashed the b.o.p. originally when you came on location, was the planned maintenance up to date on the b.o.p.? in other words were there any maintenance requirements that were deferred until later? >> i don't know. >> okay, fair enough. when you got to the bridge -- i'm just trying to capture a sense of the environment up on

mr. anderson, why did he ask you to pump up the andular. that seemed to be a side discussion between you and mr. anderson? >> he just asked me. i said no, i can't do it. he said okay. that's as far ast went. >> do you donor mall maintenance on the b.o.p. >> yes, i do. >> when i was cutter it was my job to do maintenance on the gun system, but there was a certain level of maintenance i can do on that. are you restricted to the type of maintenance you can go do on the b.o.p.? >> anything electronic i don't work on. i'm there with the electronic technician learning, but as far as doing it, no. >> okay. and so you perform normal plann annemaintenance that's identified by transocean to do -- >> that's correct. >> when you splashed the b.o.p. originally when you came on location, was the planned maintenance up to date on the b.o.p.? in other words were there any maintenance requirements that were deferred until later? >> i don't know. >> okay, fair enough. when you got to the bridge -- i'm just trying to capture a sense of thenvironment up on the

mr. anderson was coming on. >> it was just a tool pusher handover. it was just the well site leader handover. it would also been the senior subsea engineer swapping out with chris pleasant. that would have been changed out. i think the mud engineers would have changed out. >> with those folks that you have described -- or they the senior people on the floor? -- were they the senior people on the floor? >> chris was not. mark was. mark was knocking off, so to speak. don bedreen, yes, he would have been the senior person. bob had only been there for a couple of days and he was not really familiar with the rig's operations. jason would definitely have been the senior. in a lot of cases, yes, they were senior people coming on. >> those were the people making the decisions at that time? >> they would have made those decisions. >> yes, sir, thank you. you had mentioned as the tour was going through the drill floor -- it seems like it was shortly after the time where the senior people, they were going through. you had come through. there was discussion abou

mr. anderson was on nights? to relieve you from what? >> mr. revet -- who relieve you from what? -- who relieved you from what? >> mr. revet. >> ok. >> trans ocean, the you have any questions? -- do you have any questions? >> [unintelligible] [inaudible]o >> yes, sir. >> [inaudible] >> you have a 5.5 engine drill pipe and a 6 and 5/8 drill pipe. >> [inaudible] >> 800 feet. 25 stands. i do not know right off the top of my head. >> [inaudible] >> dds1 >> so that the record is clear, [unintelligible] >> yes, sir. >> it is fair to say that you do not know what is in the board of the dot at the time. >> i was not up there at the time, but i know where they were supposed to stop. i know what was supposed to be in there. i do not know what was in there, but -- >> thank you, sir. . . [inaudible] the pumping of blood [unintelligible] -- the pumping of mud c- spa[unintelligible] >> not that i am aware. >> [unintelligible] >> not that i'm aware of. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> typically when you are monitoring, it doesn't come to the rise? >> yes, sir. >> did you feel that this

mr. anderson was nights? who relieved you? thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> flags date. transocean. cameron. >> i represent cameron. just a few questions. when the sizes of the pipes? >> 3 1/2 inch, 6 5/8 pipe. >> how long was the 3.5 inch? >> 800 feet. 25 stands at 137 feet per stand. i do not know right off the top of my head. >> were you on ets one or two? >> e.p.s. 1. -- eds 1. >> it is fair to say you do not know specifically what was going on at the time of the blowout? >> i was not up there. i know where they are supposed to stop. i know what should not have been in there. i do not know what was in there. >> think you, sir. halliburton. . . >> no questions. anadarko? >> no questions. >> douglas brown? >> no questions. bp? >> no questions. >> thank you. >> deploy, do monitor when they come into the right? >> yes, sir. >> did you feel they have more ballooning effects? >> it was a difficult well. i would not say it was worse than the others. it was difficult. >> were there any concerns addressed from transocean with bp were any meetings about the difficulties that y

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anderson marina. they want to go to work and we need to give them the opportunity to go to work. but as we look at this issue, mr. speaker, it's important that as this congress moves on with the investigation and the legislation that i'm a prime sponsor of and co-sponsor of that's not enough. making sure we're able to look at this legislation -- situation as though it is a natural disaster and the federal response should treat it as though. so we need to make sure that these individuals do not fail because if we didn't let the banks fail, we should not let these individuals that work every day, pay taxes and many of whom are veterans in this country, and there are democrats and republicans and independents. i can tell you one thing about this oil spill, i don't care what your party affiliation is, the bottom line is the bottom line. when 50% of your business is walker and that shuts down to 1% or 2% and you have a boat that you're taking six people out on and you're now taking one and the other person happens to be your cuss cuss cousin, something's really wrong with that. and that's going to affect these famili