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To find anything down there, and whether it can send back pictures that are clear enough. so is there anything out there that can do the job better? rosa flores has the story. >> reporter: this world war ii era plane crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years, it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago, an auv, an autonomous underwater vehicle, discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. >> having the right tool is always the best case that youre l...

And silt, how challenging is it for the search? >> reporter: don, you can see were out on the boat, i want to introduce you. just -- the indian ocean weve there.how rough it is to work can you put it in perspective for us? >> from a sonar perspective it is actually a good environment, it is very deep, you want to get the sonar down very deep. but the complexity of the depth, to get the sonar down deep you have to put it on the auv. it has to have navigation, communications and dive down deep. it...

They first sent down the auv, they have narrowed the area down to where they believe they can cover it in a matter of a couple of weeks. but if they do not find something there, then youre looking at plan b. theyre not going to rush into plan b. theyre going to go away and think well, first of all, do we now have to search the arc between the 6 1/2 ping and the 6 ping? thats 300 miles long and 30 miles wide. so thats going to be a major undertaking. theyre going have to regroup, as they did with...

The bluefin that is an auv, autonomous under water vehicle. its not tethered, but nor can you -- >> you cant retrieve anything. you can go down there and look but cant bring anything up. it looks like it may take something like this. we should point out, carol, until you find the wreck, you dont get to do any of this. were still waiting for that point to happen. what an amazing view. the fact you can see it, watch it happen live and i actually havent gotten around the bend is the other great ach...

Flight. >> reporter: the remus 6000 can navigate in waters almost 5,000 deeper than the bluefin 21, which is currently being used in the search for malaysia flight 370. after the remus auvs use side scan sonar to map the ocean floor, they usually come back with what is called low frequency images. these are pictures it took of the submerged plane in massachusetts. >> and this shows up as different from the surrounding area, indicating that there is something on the bottom for us to go look at. >...

So i think that australia will make a recommendation and malaysia will concur or disagree. but if the first efforts dont pan out i think they will explore the areas of the pings and fan out more. we heard the information about the acoustic tricks of the ocean that some of the signals can travel further than the three miles from the ping. i think they will exhaust all the pings before going to plan "b." >> im getting tweets about this. why not have more bluefins in the water? >> the plan to me --...

Purchased a bluefin-21. so you know quite a bit about this. what are the advantages and disadvantages of this technology? >>. >> well, one of the primary advantages is the system is not connected to the ship. if you are in really rough weather, the auv is close to the bottom, its unaffected by the ships motion, riding over the big waves. with a towed system, theres a direct connection to the tow fish. as the ship travels over big waves the motion would be transmitted back to the tow fish. in thi...

Capability. the bluefin is a capable system but it just has a lot to cover. and there are not many systems out there that can do this job. >> so tim, your company purchased a bluefin-21, so you know quite a bit about this. what are the advantages and disadvantages of this technology? >> well, one of the primary advantages is the system is not connected to the ship. so if youre in really rough weather, the auv is close to the bottom. it is unaffected by the ships motion riding over the big waves....

Welcome back to "legal view." don lemon in today for ashleigh. crews are hoping to get a full days week out of the bluefin. the so-called auv, autonomous underwater vehicle, has cut short its 16-hour seabed mapping shifts twice. first, it was literally out of its depths. today, an unspecified technical issue forced it to the surface. so far, it has spot nod sited n of the 777. exasperated family members stormed out of a video conference with authorities. the families want face-to-face meetings, ...

Since its first hit the so called auv has cut short its 16 hour seabed mapping missions twice now. today an unspecified technical issue forced it to the surface. its data was downloaded and results were nothing resumabling a plane or a black box. the hopes of finding this were told that the visual search for the debris field then there is this side of the story. passengers are only seen. these passengers are mostly