Depth Capability News Today

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The depth? yep, 4,000 meters. and additional rovs arriving tomorrow have additional depth capability. with respect to an object, so yesterday, one of the aircraft did see an object. i will tell you this. in search and rescue missions when aircraft are flying continuously, there is stuff out in the ocean that is floating. we went back and looked at it. we didnt determine it to be debris. we dont think it correlates with the case and it is not uncommon at all during an active search. you see thing...

Titan and the crew members. >> and can you confirm that some sort of rectangular object has been spotted, there was some sort of report about that? >> a couple things. the rovs, each rov brings different capability. the rovs that are diving today, whats the depth? >> 4,000 meters, and some additional rovs that will be arriving tomorrow have additional depth capability. with respect to an object, so yesterday one of the aircraft did see an object. i will tell you this, in search and rescue missio...

Low oil pressure in a chamber that protects part of the bluefin-21s electronics. they say it was quickly fixed and the bluefin was sent back down. but it still cost about five hours of search time. on monday, the bluefin cut short a mission on its own when it started to go beyond range. that time, it finished its search. >> it is troubling when we have all of our eggs in one basket and that basket is operating at the very edge of the parameters. >> reporter: that leads people to question why the...

There are other similar vehicles with better depth capability. the rima 6,000 an autonomous underwater vehicle but can go . 3.7 miles down. the u.s. navy has those but deployed on military missions and not available. also this device called the orion, side scan sonar, it can go a mile deeper than the bluefin. only problem, knit a warehouse in maryland disassembled. >> its ready and available but it has not been requested. >> reporter: so why havent the search coordinators in australia asked for ...

Bluefin-21, right? >> well, phoenix international actually owns it and the navy contracts with phoenix international to run the bluefin-21 and also incorporates phoenixs operators to run it. the navy basically leases it, pays company nicks to run the bluefin-21 and the towed pinger locater. a bit of a complicated scenario. phoenix actually owns the towed pinger locater. they didnt manufacture the bluefin-21, but they bought it, run it and own it. the navy contracts with them to run both of those...