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Theyre not scuba fins theyre shorter, because the current would peel you off a rock if you had those long scuba fins. you have to have a flotation device to keep your face above water in 25 to 30-mile-an-hour water. if i could do anything to beg with my brothers and sisters out there, ems, firefighters take a course in swift water rescue. they dont usually teach it in fire academies. you need to learn the power of water under a condition to where your instructors can keep you safe while youre le...

Wearing them and thats all the gear that we had, was pfd, my flotation device and these little throw bags and we hooked them together and it was just enough length to make it to the tree to where i couldnt put a pfd or a life jacket on her, and then my short crew pulled me in. so they helped affect the rescue by -- yeah it was pretty harrowing. >> this is probably a dumb question but whats it like to be in water like that? i mean you know people ive talked to say, no one ever expects it to be as...

And again, the weather conditions you cant fight that you have to do the best you can, and at this moment they are looking, theyre visually looking for clues. for survivors, ideally. >> i wonder if at this early stage, 25 26 hours after the plane disappeared. would they be using any underwater technology or this is this all about surface, eyes on on the water? >> this is really all surface on the water. i think the next would be the aerials. i think at this point, time the water conditions again...

Start filling in. all of a sudden its going to be overhead as youre standing up, five, six, seven, eight feet and things will be different. >> reporter: now its almost flat almost. >> it looks flat. its not a great breaking beach but is only coming in in sets and infrequently right now. >> reporter: somebody called this the quiet before the storm. have you ever heard that? >> i think we all have heard that. >> reporter: but the point is this is a very serious situation that people should be mind...

Plane landing at hundreds of miles an hour not breaking up, the stuff is going to spread around. we have people, as we have been hearing about, major assets deployed. we have fisherman and merchantmen going through the ocean and people on the beaches you expect to find these things turning up in ordinary peoples hands. there was a firefighting bottle that turned up in the maldives and it went viral. >> there are a lot of things, like the carts that go up and down the row, those float and will st...

We have people, as we have been hearing about, major assets deployed. we have fisherman and merchantmen going through the ocean and people on the beaches you expect to find these things turning up in ordinary peoples hands. there was a firefighting bottle that turned up in the maldives and it went viral. >> there are a lot of things, like the carts that go up and down the row, those float and will stay floating. they are made out of a honeycomb structure that is sealed. which is a perfect flotat...

Device. is it a sealed cell flotation device that could float for years. >> this is a question from philip. can a plane enter the water in such a manner that it leaves no debris. a lot of people have been asking that. do we know that now? >> i used to be an aviation history professor and we would find in researching planes from world war ii and older planes, occasionally they would remain on the ocean floor and lakes and bodies of water completely intact. but in modern times, not really. there a...

Currents. >> uh-huh. >> is this something possible that we may be able to find some floating debris, maybe a flotation device? >> sean, this is a very difficult task. and i know you know this, but lets not forget that the last known location of the airplane was way up here. the last point where we knew for certain the airplane actually was. this is all based on theory, based on some data from the satellites so-called hand shake that they have come up with, and malaysia has come out with that the...

When to break the news that the wait is over. because you certainly dont do it until you know. i remember having this problem on a much smaller scale on september 11th because even though we were pretty certain within a day or two we werent going to find anyone, there were a lot of families still hoping, and we kept the search up for three or four more days just to be certainly. >> wasnt there one survivor who was found, a pocket? >> first day, though. >> that was the first day. >> no survivors ...

When to break the news that the wait is over. because you certainly dont do it until you know. i remember having this problem on a much smaller scale on september 11th because even though we were pretty certain within a day or two we werent going to find anyone, there were a lot of families still hoping, and we kept the search up for three or four more days just to be certainly. >> wasnt there one survivor who was found, a pocket? >> first day, though. >> that was the first day. >> no survivors ...