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Worked on everything from tanker trucks to planes. he says every job is complicated by the harsh elements. >> what conditions are we dealing with here? >> the indian ocean is notorious for high seas. >> reporter: he says when the time comes, it will likely take the rov more than three hours just to make the three-mile journey to the bottom of the indian ocean. its sonar and pings the only guides in complete darkness. as the pilot maneuvers the rov to begin the task of salvaging if wreckage is fo...

Builds and runs rovs for global diving and salvage in seattle. he has recovered everything from tanker trucks to planes. he says every job is a delicate maneuver, complicated by the harshest elements. what conditions are crews dealing with here? >> the indian ocean is notorious for high seas. on a regular day, theyre going to have 14 to 16-foot sea theres. >> reporter: crumpton says when the time comes, it will likely take the rov more than three hours just to make the three-mile journey to the ...

Automatic pilot, that -- im not going to say that is the explanation, but that is an ex-an place. >> an explanation how we would not have a bunch of stuff. >> it is just a huge, huge ocean out there full of junk and maybe the debriss out there, we just havent found it. >> when you look at the salvaging or whatever you bring up, whats -- we know the black box is the priority, hopefully that would tell us what the heck happened, what then? do you leave it rest? >> the black boxes? >> no, no the bl...

But they are saying it is where they found the ming is 4500 meters. the working conditions for a black box is 4500 meters. could that be a constraint? >> it will be in the salvaging effort and finding it. but if they can get 1 or 2 more cuts. and lines of bearing to take the area of uncertainity down. it will do a under water search and come back up to the service and down load the information off like you would a hard drive. and if they find something that is aircraft debris. it will be replace...

Its important to bear that in mind. if you were to start on that wing over there, if you stood on the wing and you could walk right through the middle of the plane to the other wing, when you stepped out on the other side, you would have covered about 36 feet. that gives you an idea how big it is. if you started on a wing tip and you walked all the way to other wing tip over there, 212 feet. so yes, wolf, you could get pieces that big out of an airplane this large. and that is another reason why...

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Save those who survived the storm. sadly the search for the missing on the back burner. not all aid and assistance are reaching those who need it most. only a trickle of food and relief goods are getting to other areas that were ravaged by the typhoon. on this remote islands, residents say they havent received enough local aid and have yet to see any international relief from agencies. >> we need help. we need your help. water, especially, food, first aid, medicine, clothes. some of us only one ...

Said they havent received enough local aid and yet to see relief from international agencies. >> we need help. we need your help. water, food, light cloths. >> reporter: the water system of the village was destroyed by the storm and now residents are getting water from a well and they boil the water before drinking. in other areas, as hunger sets in, some have turned to looting warehouses, abandoned shops and even ships blown ashore when the typhoon hit. salvaging what they can amid the devastat...

Flattened. we were on a muddy runway for all of 20 minutes to deliver that aid. every single palm tree around that huge, huge trees just flattened. you know, snapped like twigs. it really gives you an idea of the force of this storm. there were many, many locals that raced to that airfield while we there on the ground delivering that aid. this is a township of 50,000 people. and yet, everyone is now virtually homeless. there was splice, perhaps, for several 00 families that might last a couple o...

December mated. every building was flattened. we were on the tarmac, more like a muddy runway for all of 20 minutes to deliver that aid. every single palm tree around, huge, huge trees just flattened. you know, snapped like twigs which gives you an idea of the force of the storm there were many locals that raced to that air field once we were there on the ground delivering aid. this is a township of 50,000 people, and yet, everyone is now virtually homeless. there was supplies perhaps for severa...