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Hes turning the scientific mission into a movie. >> its that need to see whats there beyond the edge of your lights. to see the unknown for yourself. >> reporter: the pressure at nearly 15,000 feet is crushing, and very few manned submarines can withstand it. >> there are only half a dozen subs that can go to basically half the ocean depth, with a number of countries having that capability. it gets to the point of, of collapse. it basically implodes. it just crushes. >> reporter: finding the pla...

Been found the haystack and were going straight in on the needle. what weve done so far is phenomenal, unprecedented. and were in a transition, ang it houston has a judgment call. when you put down the auvs that gets in the way of the ping locator and getting in the way of the sound and detection and everything else. you cant do both at the same time. so the ping locator looking for the ping -- >> thats what theyre waiting for. >> thats the just call. i said from the outcome, the judgment call, ...

Processes the data to make the pulse and to bring back the pulse and configure it into an image. >> it moves back and forth along the surface, but some auvs can dive deep into the ocean. sonar helps identify and find debris like the submerged car. >> once we identify the target, we did this cost pattern. if we zoom in here, we pull that sonar file, went to that location and got a better high-def image. >> in the case of flight 370 an auv could face on stobstaclobst. >> this rov uses the map to v...