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Unmanned vehicle. >> its a lot of work, its tedious. they have to keep redoing their mapping and what theyre sending the auv down to do because of the fact they dont know what theyre looking for. its sort of go down, maybe tinker again, see what you need to do the next time you send the auv down, so its a very tedious process. >> good stuff, stephanie. may i ask a question of him and you, the question is, he sort of, you know, touched on it a little bit about your question the bluefin. is that b...

Even the high amount that we see is one piece of plastic every square ten feet or so. so even though there is a lot of plastic it is very much extended over huge areas, thousands of miles. >> uh-huh. so the best way to stop it on the surface is to be aware of it and stop dumping stuff in the ocean if we can avoid it. and what about below the surface in the area theyre searching? what types of debris can be found on the ocean floor, erik? >> well, to be honest, we dont know enough about the ocean...

Sucking up samples. this is about 24 feet long, about 11 feet tall, and it weighs about 28,000 pounds. it has enough oxygen and emergency provisions on board for the people to survive under water for up to five days. there is also a back cabin on the submersible called the aft observation chamber. a crew member who keeps an eye on the submersibles vital signs and another scientist share that back area, which is only about 5 1/2 feet by 3 feet. so just to give our viewers an idea how tight it is,...

Theyre using sonar that is made by your company. its a different kind. but can you show whats this mapping looks like when they get that image back? can we go inside and look at that so we get an idea. >> first of all, theyre building a -- weve already seen this mow the lawn pattern. thats what weve been doing here today. we have a grid pattern here. the boat is over here. weve been mowing along. and slowly building up a map of different things that are on the sea floor. this is what the mission...

Patience because of the pace these things move at now. >> rob what do you think? >> i agree. i think the first two pinger locator -- locations, the most promising. the other two, not so much. i think that the key sign that youre seeing in the level of confidence and search controllers or from the search controllers the fact theyre using a tactical auv, honed down to a small area, high resolution imagery and a very specific place. >> talk about what theyre using. yesterday i spoke with the deputy...

Breaking news in the search for malaysia flight 370. the bluefin-21 underwater drone we can confirm has now completed its first full underwater search mission. that is significant and all in, we are just finding out it has searched approximately 35 square miles in total. the air search today continuing. theyre searching another 16,000 miles by air. and they say they are planning for the bluefins next mission. what it saw underwater, were waiting for the analysis of whether it saw the plane. two ...

>> you use three to find the wreckage. tell me why theyre just using one blue fin here? >> they are only using one because thats all that they have available. you wonder if more authorities had exerted more preshire. its not that there is one or two kinds of auvs, there are all sorts of kinds i do know that the smash operating just under the limit that it is designed to do. it would be easy for this other auv to do this kind of work where the blue fin is really almost not appropriate for this jo...

Its job, not to listen for pings but to map the ocean floor and look for debris. to do that, it can use two different payloads, which have to be swapped out. >> this particular payload section is the acoustic section. >> reporter: first the bluefin uses side scan sonar and a multibeam echo sounders that bounce sound waves off the ocean floor that arent natural. if picked up, the bluefin can be brought to the surface. the sonar technology is taken out and high-tech cameras are put in. >> its a hi...

Ago that the auv, the autonomous underwater vehicle, was back in the water. were trying to get clarification what that means. is it back towards the same depth it was yesterday, is it closer to the surface? were not sure. were trying to get some clarified information on that. the mission was aborted automatically by the bluefin itself yesterday. aborted because it started to go deeper than it was programmed to go. according to officials with the u.s. navy and phoenix international, the company w...

Mountainous terrain and complete darkness. but even diving blind there is much hope that the bluefin-21 auv will see something. randy kaye, cnn, quincy, massachusetts. >> amazing technology. you follow me on twitter tonight. coming up next well look more at the cell phone transmission from flight 370s flight deck. reports about that and what it could mean. well be right back. t theyre g, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life to...