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On the water before disaster strikes? where do they get the training? our own rosa flores. >> reporter: this is a full bridge simulator. it has all the bells and whistles. right now, we could have thunderstorms and rain and were going to complicate the situation a bit just to give you a sense as to what captains experience at sea. salesperson #1: so, again, throwing in the $1,000 fuel reward card is really what makes it like two deals in one. salesperson #2: actually, getting a great car with 42...

Simulator and even though the platform youre standing on, its actually not moving, you feel as though youre moving so you have to hold on so you dont tip over. the actions of the captain and crew of the south korean ferry have come under fire. one crew member is being hailed posthumously as a hero. a third of the people who survived owe their lives to her. you have time to shop for car insurance today? yeah.

The captains been checked out every year to 18 months. on the ship you dont have to go back after you have your operators license to run a ship. there are safety courses but they dont apply to the captain. the companies we work with like royal caribbean, disney, theyre very proactive. even though theres no legislation for it. thats why we built the simulator for them, were catering to those. one other thing i like to add is the area of responsibility. your first line of personal safety. you can ...

Responsibility. >> its his responsibility. >> hes the captain. >> he shoulders all the responsibility because hes the master. >> its really -- i mean its kind of harkens back to another time but i mean how much training does a captain of a ship have? is there a universal course of training? >> that depends. it took me about 12 to 13 years before i was sailing captain so i had quite a bit of training and the training was reinforced through the maritime institute where we go, every time were off s...

Simulator training, very similar to what airline pilot dose. they are regulated to be in flight simulators every nine months that they have to go in and go through training on flight simulators. theres no regulation right now in the maritime, so theres a good possibility that nobody sailing the ship has ever been in a simulator, depending on what nationality or what flag you fly under. something was not seen. its a great thing to do. >> i appreciate you being here. thank you very much. honor a...

Training. this simulator is built for some of the training the cruise ship lines and operators that are doing it on their own. theyre starting recurrent training. >> reporter: which is a great point, erin, thats the whole reason why to have simulator likes this so you can practice the drills that can take people to safety. erin? >> thank you very much to you, rosa. and still to come, new details about the teenaged stowaway. how did he survive a nearly five-hour flight with basically no oxygen ...

Maritime industry and not regulated or man kated and only volunteer that they use a simulator and trying to set the course to set the new type of training and where a captain will have gone through an event like this and either an emergency type drill, a navigational skills type drill or any other type of evacuation that may need to be done so when the time comes that something like this has happened hell already been in a high-stress situation and amazing some of the results we are starting to ...

Shamed my company with the way he was dressing like he was 15 years old. not professional at all. if you go to any plane you dont see them in shorts and sandals. wait, wait. he was pushed out over plaid shirts. what a setback for cnn and the world. >> and this is in a city of toronto where the mayor is rob ford. doesnt dress like a pro, trips over fire hydrants and was caught lying about smoking crack. >> wondered how you would fit that? >> fired for wearing short sleeves, not really a plane, no...

British columbia is remarkable. there is something orange there which would be our simulator of the black box its a very slow, methodical job. when youre way down at that kind of pressure, its going to be even more carefully done. >> forward. come ahead. come ahead. like everything else its never easy. you see when we move a bit to get a better grip on this thing, a big cloud of silt comes up from the bottom and now we have to wait for the silt to settle until soledad obrien we we soo what we ar...

The one that could help retrieve the planes black boxes. starboard, starboard. starboard. essentially phils got to give directions to the pilot in the back -- >> forward, forward. >> there is something orange there which would be our simulator of the black box. its a very slow, methodical job, and when youre weighed under that pressure -- >> starboard jet, starboard -- >> reporter: going to be even more carefully done. >> okay, forward. come ahead, come ahead. come ahead. like everything else,...