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Jeopardy so it aborted the mission, came back up without finding anything. theyre hoping if they can reprogram, get it back and do a full scan today, they could get more info. >> thank you very much. if you hear anything changing, let us know so we can get to you and find out the latest. lets bring in former faa inspector mr. david souse, to talk about the difficulties facing this new phase of the search. the bluefin-21, not up to the job, its the wrong thing, it cant go deep enough. is that fai...

Theyre not very common. a few countries have them, but its really, when it -- the reality is this is the study of the deep ocean is still pretty young and its been state add couple of times by different people in interviews, you know, our knowledge of the deep ocean is less than our knowledge of some of the nearer places in space. its really a -- the final frontier, lets say. >> all right. were awaiting the weather to clear up and hopefully theyll put that submarine down again sometime today. th...

The autonomous underwater vehicle bluefin -21 and to say this is new territory is putting it mildly. >> its not sharply mountainous or anything. its more flat and almost rolling. >> reporter: sidescan sonar will produce a high resolution three-dimensional map, while searchers are hoping to spot evidence of flight 370. oceanographers want to take this chance to learn as much as they can about this part of the ocean. >> we know so little that we will learn something about the seafloor there. its m...

Theyre going to find and the attention on this area is just fascinating so yes, im glued to the television and to the stories that are coming out about this. >> reporter: oceanographers are on site, offering their knowledge of the deep and potentially benefiting scientifically from a multimillion dollar operation with an unprecedented focus on an otherwise overlooked part of the ocean. >> were talking about millions of dollars to do this work. obviously, if one wanted to do this from a scientifi...

When you cant see at this depth, its dark, the silt layer making it cloudy, you have to judge by sonar, right? >> thats right, because the sonar can see 100 meters wide of the ocean. whereas visually youre not even going to see between you and me. >> its the right vehicle. being safe is the order of the day. because if they break that thing, they have bigger problems. >> absolutely. if you go belong 4,900 feet which is the absolute bottom depth of this thing, youre talking about an implosion. >>...

We have, and it must be pursued vigorously. >> this morning the head of the search team says an oil slick was found in the search area, but lit take several more days to figure out where the oil came from. cnns will ripley is in perth, australia. >> reporter: angus houston at the press conference said this area where bluefin-21 we believe is searching right now is an area new to man, meaning more people have been in outer space than have been this far down at the bottom of the ocean. the search ...

Reflexes of flight. >> the under water vehicle is gathering information to create a map of the sea floor. this time its the bottom of a massachusetts reservoir. >> the side scan consists of on electronics package which is inside the vehicle. its basically a computer that processes the data to make the pulse and to bring back the pulse and condition figure it into an image. >> it moves back and forth along the surface but some can dig deep into the ocean. sonar helps identify and find debris like...

Sonar system and then its just a processing problem to make it digestible by humans. this is made so that the human can visualize it. the data is really just a bunch of 1s and 0s that come back from the system. >> im going to ask you a completely uneducated question. when we all saw the movie "titanic. if t they could get pictures deep down in the ocean. do we have that kind of technology? >> absolutely but not on these types of vehicles. these vehicles are primarily designed to fly maybe 50 met...

Ukraine. united nations ambassadors are gathered right now late night sunday night trying to prevent full-on civil war. and the puzzle of malaysia airlines flight 370. so many days of nothing from the deep ocean, no pings, no pulses. might be time to accept the fact that the pingers are probably dead. but well get an update from the search commander in just one hour from now. coronation center chief angus houston will hold a news conference in western australia and we will carry it for you live....

Send four hours reviewing the data? >> you know, wolf, thats one of the most frustrating things looking at the ocean, especially in the deep ocean. were pretty far behind space technology and you cant stream data from a vehicle. yeah, just think about how much faster this process would be if we could do it. >> are you hopeful that they are going to find something within the next few weeks based on what you know about the bottom, the floor of this ocean, where it is right now? >> you know, for th...