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Seas. in some places its zero visibility. could special technology be helpful in those conditions? >> yes, its getting the technology down there. sonar can look through the dirty water and see whats there. you can get close up pictures of it with these tools. its getting them there. with this vehicle, you can get in and under the waves and not have the effect of up and down motion of towed sonar these things you can launch multiple auv and -- ive got a remote in my hand that can launch six missi...

You get on the radio and tell them you have a big problem. its likely that as you get lower youll be able to restart the engines. in any case, thats not what happened in this case. we didnt hear from them at all. >> you dont disappear off radar if you have a dual engine failure. i want to widen out our shot because, tim, you brought with you this auv thats extroids narrowly unique. i was thinking why didnt i see this during mh 370 when we did so much coverage with the underwater details patrolli...

Now. what youre seeing be used is towed pinger locateors. thats whats being dragged behind ships to survey the ocean and find the plane. the auvs will be deployed once they found a reasonable area where they think the plane might be. its a smaller area where you can send these auvs under water and detect smaller things like a black box potentially. >> i want seems it would be helpful given the rough weather and sending divers in could be dangerous. without a diver in i want that clearly might be...

Latest technology that could be used to find airasia flight 8501. it is equipped with side scan sonar which can be used to find things that dont belong. >> what is side scan sonar? >> it is an acoustic technology that is based on reflections of sound rather than reflections of light. >> reporter: the under water vehicle, an auv is gathering information to create a map of the sea floor. this is the bottom of a massachusetts reservoir. out on the java sea, boats are using sonar to search for debri...

The team from massachusetts is already had dramatic success locating the wreckage of air france 447 two years after it crashed in the south atlantic ocean. discovery possible because of this a.u.v. this is the shot of the air france debris captured from the a.u.v. >> they can go up mountains up a slope. they are stable. you get really good data. >> reporter: another a.u.v. that could be used? dorado based at the research insurance institute in california where stephanie elam visited. the other o...

The team from massachusetts met with dramatic success. locating air france 447 two years after it crashed in the south atlantic ocean. the discovery possible because of this a.u.v. this is the initial shot of the air france captured from the remus 6,000. >> it can go down mountains on slope. they are stable. you get good data. >> reporter: another a.u.v.? a dorado based in california where cnns stephanie elam visited. >> this is a titanium atmosphere. >> reporter: the other option is man submari...

>> reporter: this is the triton connected to a ship by an umbilical cord. then the auvs which are not connected. this is the orion. vehicles like this paint a picture of what is on the bottom. then there is the auv, the team has already met dramatic success locating the wreckage of air france flight 447 two years after it crashed in the south atlantic ocean. the discovery only possible because of this auv. this is the initial shot of the air france debris captured by it. >> they can go up and do...

Company called phoenix international. vehicles like this send sound signals to the sea floor which paint a picture of whats on the bottom. then there is the rema 6000 also an auv. the team from woods hole massachusetts has had dramatic success, locating the wreckage of air france flight 447 two years after it crashed in the atlantic ocean. the discovery only possible because of this auv. the initial shot of the air france debris. >> they can go up and down mountains up to 40 degrees in slope. th...

Anything of cig nif kanlt. >> if the auv turns up nothing, they are going to turn north to locate the jet liner. >> we are turning to a retired air captain and director of marine operations. gentlemen, thank you both for being here. roy, let me start with you quickly. do you think its the right move to move the search north, if we find nothing by the end of today and what do we do about the air search? do you keep the planes in the air? >> yes, good morning. yeah, i think its a good move to move...

Meeting is the place to do that. im sure they are extremely interested in this case and will do what they can. the timing, probably, not the shareholders meeting. >> okay. >> roy, last question to you, as the search expands, do you think it could continue at this level, 26 countries involved with both the investigation and the search. how long can they go on at this pace? >> actually, searching is not so -- searching with auvs is not so labor intensive as one might think. because they launch the...