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Bodies. one of them spots something. hes unsure what exactly. the captain calls it in, a larger ship in the area will investigate. this search and rescue boat has a specific mission, to deliver a pinger locator to help with the vital search for the so-called black boxes. but the captain is nervous about the weather. i feel a heavy moral burden, he says. i have a responsibility to keep those on board safe, but its so important to help find bodies and debris. larger ships can cope with these condi...

This tow fish that were deploying off the "fort worth," they basically can do the job of a, the a tpo. >> you think theyll be able to detect the ping from the so-called black boxes -- >> the tow fish is capable of detecting the ping from the black boxes, absolutely. its also a side-scan sonar. so it does two things. it can map the ocean floor to help us locate wreckage and find it. >> but so far, no pings detected? >> nothing. >> as far as you know? >> no. >> lets say there is a ping thats detec...

And noise levels are good so they know theyre getting good coverage we wont know. >> reporter: but he says the indications hes getting point to a likely successful recovery of the black boxes. whats working in favor of the serve search teams they know the general area where the plane went down and found debris and unlike in the malaysia air search theyre close to land and can shuttle personnel and equipment to the search area much easier. >> all encouraging developments. but the divers who could...

Office depot & officemax. gear up for great. were back with the breaking news. the search at the airasia crash site now getting back under way and an unconfirmed report that the tail might have been found. thats raising hopes that the black boxes may soon be located, as well. brian todd is tracking the hunt under the sea for us. brian, what are you learning? >> reporter: this is an urgent two-pronged search effort. you have the search for bodies and debate but have an urgent scramble to find t...

More than 100 nautical miles to the search zone calm waters and sunshine soon disappear. weve been on the sea now for about four hours, we have another three or four hours to go and as you can see, the weather has started to close in. the closer we get to this crash location. but were being told that even though these waves are fairly high and you can see its a lot choppier than it was, that this is still considered fairly good weather. this is better than it has been for some days. the crew loo...

Flight data recorder the voice recorder the cockpit recorder apparently located on that tail? >> sure. it would be fantastic. but we begin every day with some encouragement. we end every day with so much uncertainty. its a bad pattern. the thing that worries me is that a calmer surface means we can get people in and out of the water a little bit easier and safer and hold position easier. but the visibility if were waiting for that to improve, it could be weeks or a month before the monsoonal vis...

Authorities as well as european authorities and bringing in the best experts because they want to make sure that they answer the question of exactly what brought this plane down. we were on a plane flying in from seoul with a member of the ntsb and he was telling us that the very top experts are being brought in in preparation for analysis of those black boxes. they are hoping the indonesian authorities are hoping to get ahead of this and get the answers out there as quickly as possible. >> kyun...

Degrade and the pilot in that spur of the moment has to make those decisions but its very similar and frankly, wolf theres absolutely so far as i can tell nothing systemic that anyone need to concern themselves. >> fair enough. good point, thom fuentes, what else are the investigators looking for? they havent come up with the black boxes yet. what will help them. >> they still look at the crew the passengers the ground crew was there something that was improper the maintenance of the aircraft wa...

Investigate. this search and rescue boat has a spec mission, to deliver a pinger locateer to help with the vital search for the so-called black boxes. but the captain is nervous about the weather. "i feel a heavy burden," he says." i have a responsibility to keep those on board safe but its so important to help find bodies and debris." larger ships compose these conditions he says "this is not a large ship." at the search zone the contact boat is in sight. time to hand over the equipment. easier...

Officials, religious officials, they provide counseling and information and food and water and also theyre giving them some immediate financial assistant. 300 million indonesiaen rupiahs which convert ss to $340,000. >> gary tuchman on the scene. thank you. lets go to the capital of indonesia where investigators are standing by waiting to get their hands on more key pieces of the plane wreckage and all-important black boxes. cnns kyung lah is joining us from jakarta right now. what are you seein...