Claim: Says it wasn't until he and a Senate colleague were able to "wrangle the actual streaming video" from BP that scientists were able to calculate the oil spill flow.
Fact-check: Sen. Bill Nelson said his battle for BP video allowed scientists to calculate Deepwater Horizon flow
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Becky Bowers
Date published: 2011-10-26T00:00:00