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>> roy, the bluefin-21 is not the only autonomous underwater vehicle. we know theres a remis, oryan. do you think the bluefin was the right one to begin with? >> yes, it was the one that was immediately available. its run by u.s. navy contractors and its a fly away system. it was able to be on site fairly quickly. there are other assets, the lemis is an auv that can search to the south or east and west a bit. i think this should bring other assets in also. towed systems assigned assets to a cert...

The information immediately, more than 19,000 feet. there is a trade off for everything. you get a bigger range, but less quality resolution than with the bluefin. next, the rena 2000. its torpedo shaped to do the same mowing pattern to see the long lines. same thing with this one, side scan sonar like the bluefin, send it down, it comes back with the images. three were used in the search for air fran 47. the biggest difference is the depth ability. remis goes deeper. its operated differently. o...

Room with a nice clean whiteboard and going through what we know, what we dont know, what do we do next? it took a lot of thought. it was a long peer. months before we came up with the next plan of what to do. >> reporter: it took 70 days of subsea search missions over years to find that wreckage. in this investigation, the subsea search area could be shifted or expanded perhaps to include the other three pings and using other vehicles to scan the ocean floor. this remis 6000 was used in the sea...

Crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago an auv, an autonomous underwater vehicle, discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. >> having the right tool is always the best case that youre looking for. >> it makes the remis family of auvs, this is the ream is 600. a larger, the remis 6000 found the france flight. >> at the end of the day we knew what we were doing was to help people answer questions about ...

Image here that i want to look at. is this zooming in on the bow? >> yes, just zooming in on the bow. this shows you how powerful the sonar can be, jack was king of the world, the mask, some of the openings here -- >> you can get this just from one pass? >> just one pass. and sometimes we go over it two or three times to make sure we dont miss anything. >> what kind of vehicle took this? >> this is the remis 6,000, very similar to the type of vehicle that the bluefin-21 is. >> so it goes 6,000 -...

Image of the object four days ago. ships are headed to the area to continue the search. if we find ourselves in a worse case scenario and investigators need to find a plane at the bottom toft ocean, technology could play a key part in the search and recovery. this robot submarine may hold the key to finding malaysia airlines 370. its called the remis 6,000 and developed by the oceanographic institution. it ways almost a 1rton and cost almost $2.5 million. >> they can go up and down mountains tha...