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And search for that body. you have to go in in a very deliberate way. you dont know exactly where sargeanton be son wound up and you have to start a search pattern. so theres lots of questions right now, and i think what were seeing out of the pentagon is a very deliberate investigation thats trying to get the answers. >> this investigation is really important because most people didnt know that the u.s. has, what, 1,000 troops in niger right now. they certainly didnt know how potentially danger...

Give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. >> i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. theyre up against really nasty storm, theyre up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. >> youre familiar with the ocean. youre an ocean explor...

Give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. >> i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. theyre up against really nasty storm, theyre up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. >> youre familiar with the ocean. youre an ocean explor...

Has reached out to help in this search. you were instrumental in mh370. good to have you back with us. lets talk about this area to brings you up to date the red area youre see sgt original search area. about the size of the state of georgia to give us an idea of how big the area is and then we know this is the area in yellow where the debris was first spotted. what does that tell you when you look at that area and talk to us about the conditions of what this is like out there? >> well obviously...

Went. they turned around and came back and you werent there. where were you? >> they go back to where i had gone in and i wasnt there. they thought i was drifting on a one or one and a half knot current so they started a search pattern. i was drifting farther away, i was a mile away by the time they got back to the mark. >> you were starting to be pelted with hailstones. whats going through your mind at this point. >> at the first point i was thinking i need to get myself ready for recovery, loo...

And they have the possibility of both unmanned submersibles and manned submersibles. the chinese have one that they have already said in news reports that they want to send down. i forget the chinese name but its translated sea dragon and that holds the record for under water dives, it can go down 4.5 miles. >> is there other technology? are they doing the right thing from an investigation and crash stand point? >> we dont know everything that they know. when air france 447 was found, there was ...

The water. you have some rcommunication between that and the ship. you can command it to start a certain search pattern. >> your seeing things in real-time from the vehicle or is that just data you get once it comes back up? >> so once you recover the vehicle you go through this four hour process where you replace the battery, you reprogram it and download the data you collected on the previous mission. you take two to four hours to go through that data to see what the vehicle observed. so there...

Search was cut short. just six hours into its mission the bluefin-21 surfaced. 14 hours early. the bluefin was originally expected to scour the ocean floor for debris. the whole journey lasting 20 hours. but instead, the device resurfaced after the o official say it exceeded the operating depth of 14800 feet. >> we just hit a deeper spot than we initially planned so we just got to bring it up, reprogram it, shift a little bit away from the deeper area. and adjust our search pattern. meanwhile,...

It was expected to scour the ocean floor for deb british the whole journey lasting 20 hours but instead, the device resurfaced after officials say it exceeded its maximum operating depth of 14,800 feed feet. >> we just hit a deeper spot than we initially planned, just bring it up, reprogram it, shift a little bit away from that deeper area and adjust our search pattern. >> meanwhile, a new detail emerging, a u.s. official tells cnn the co-pilots cell phone was on during the play and made contact...

Yes or no whether its related to mh-370. >> now to jeff wise here in new york. you know that bluefin it had to come up before it finished the job because it exceeded its depth. are searchers relying too heavily on technology in this part of the search, jeff? >> you know, when they used a similar technology to find air france 447. and at that time they had three of these devices working a search pattern together. its not entirely clear to me why there are not more such submersibles available. it ...