Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your testimony today. I'm hearing once again from you basically what we heard last May, I guess it was, and that was that the design, the technology of the equipment that's being used--in our case, deep-sea drilling--is state-of-the-art equipment. You seem to be repeating what you said back in May, that accidents happen when the operators of the equipment fail to either use it properly or disregard possible hazards that develop or were already present in the environment the equipment is going to operate in.
On the equipment itself and the methods of drilling, they're studied seven ways from Sunday, but as I think you said, Mr. Caron, accidents happen when someone does something they're not supposed to do or disregards a possible hazard. So that's human error and that's what causes a lot of accidents, not just in the welling industry.
So I'm really pleased to hear about this culture of safety regime that the industry has gone into. That is, in a way, operating beyond the regulations that are already in place. And on this stop-work authority, as I understand it, if anybody on the drilling rig notices something, they have the authority under this new structure to shut the thing down and explain why they did it later. They can take that step singularly.