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8501. at the bottom of the java sea. at the moment they dont know if it is one piece. or it is broken up. go now to jeffrey thomas. editor-in-chief of airline ratings.com. he joins us from perth, australia, via skype. this happened quickly, jeffrey. it did. mind you. they had ships in the area. 32 ships in the area. for the last 24, 36 hours. a number of those. have the sonar capability. but they have gone on to a very timely manner. it brings closure to relatives in the circumstance. i think th...

>> without a doubt. there was plenty of time to get the life rafts deploy which should have been done. to have a young school child make a phone call to an emergency place before a seasoned captain, that should tell you something right there. the captain was very indecisive. >> is something like this rov going to see any better than a diver? >> it potentially can with the sonar capability. but again the limitation is not only because of lack of light but the amount of silt down there. i applaud ...

Plenty of time for evacuation or at least for mustering. the ship didnt go down in a matter of minutes. >> without a doubt. there was plenty of time to get the life rafts deploy which should have been done. to have a young school child make a phone call to an emergency place bafr seasoned captain, that should tell you something right there. the captain was very indecisive. >> is something like this rov going to see any better than a diver? >> it potentially can with the sonar capability. but aga...

News when they come back. >> the other interesting part of this is that british submarine, of course, it sent going to be successful useful, until they narrow down the search zone. is there a sense that they want to throw it in there and start some sefrmt in a sense of desperation, perhaps? >> i think it is not just a sense of desperation, the fact that window is closing on finding the wreckage. they are bringing in all the possible, in case they are able to find the debris, deploy the scans, an...

Including the scorpion submarines and my other question to you is, is there any lead so far of the police investigations thats been going on? >> our submarines do not have the ability especially sonar, passive or active and the ships is something that i discussed with my counterparts. for example, secretary hagel on possible deployment, that we do not have it. so the sonar capability and the deep sea surveillance search and rescue is also something that we are asking our friends to assist and th...

With that well head right now. >> we have a remotely operated vehicle that were getting a visual feed in our command center and it also has sonar capability. we are monitoring the sub service and the wellhead to ensure there is no crude leaking and emanating on the ocean floor. >> thats good news because the topic this morning in the editorial meeting was okay, will our gas prices go up? thats a logical question when you see something like that. >> any time you take one of those rigs out of serv...