Shell denies witness' claim that drilling rig dragged for two hours.

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http://www.adn.com/2012/07/16/2544625/shell-denies-witness-claim-that.html

For two hours before a big Shell drilling ship stopped near shore Saturday afternoon, a Dutch Harbor resident noticed it slowly moving in that direction, an observed time that contradicts with the much shorter period of uncontrolled drifting in Shell's account of the close call.

James Mason, a journalist who has lived in Dutch Harbor for a year and runs an online local news site, said he glanced at the Noble Discoverer out the window of his home a few times that afternoon and also was eyeing it as he tooled around town. He lives on Standard Oil hill overlooking the airport and Unalaska Bay, where the ship was moored.
He noticed it wasn't in the same spot and was coming closer to land as the day progressed. It was imperceptively slow, like an hour hand on a clock. The significance of the untethered ship's path didn't register until later that afternoon, when he was getting a double espresso at the coffee stand.

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His eyewitness version of events differs significantly from Shell Oil Co.'s assessment of what happened. Shell is investigating the incident with the ship's owner and operator, Noble Corp., but says so far, there is no evidence the ship grounded. Less than 30 minutes, not a full two hours, elapsed from the moment those on board noticed the ship had lost anchor to the time it was under tow back to deeper water, according to Shell.

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Would Shell LIE about this?