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Further step towards visual identification, since it offers a possible opportunity to detect debris from the aircraft on the ocean floor. i would caution you against raising hopes that the deployment of the autonomous underwater vehicle will result in the detection of the aircraft wreckage. it may not. however, this is the best lead we have and it must be pursued vigorously. >> it is a tedious process, too, as angus houston was cautioning people. its a 24-hour effort to get this thing down, 2 ho...

Homes that it will find something. it will be a very long process. a very tedious one. the bluefin moves literally at walking pace. for a cycle of it going down and coming back up takes 24 hours and in that time it covers about 40 square kilometers. this in a narrow search area of 1,300 square kilometers. so theyre hoping it will find something. it tries to find wreckage. it takes 3d photographs of the ocean floor. theyre hoping but theyre certainly not getting ahead of themselves in optimism. >...

Very long process likely ahead. blue fin moves at about walking pace. youre looking at that area on the screen. it will only stand about 15 square miles in its first 24 hour mission. it takes as you said two hours to reach the ocean floor. 16 hours to scan the area. and another two hours to return to the surface and then about four hours to download the data. the data is not streaming live. they have to wait until blue fin rurps to the surface to view it. this could be a long haul. air france, t...

Heading up this search. the main one is that theyve decided theyre not going to hear any more pings from this flight data recorders. and theyre going to have to deal with the search area theyve narrowed down to now. they were hoping against hope they would get more pings which would help them narrow it down even further. the area theyre dealing with is about 1,300 square kilometers. later today they are going on pull up that ping locator and lower the bluefin submersible. it is a 24-hour operati...

Theres also the "echo" there, a british ship that sends down its own sonar and tries to pick up any hard objects on the bottom. but, yeah, youve got to think and you were just saying this and youre right, don, youve got to think its got to be only a matter of a day or two before they say those pingers are dead now and weve got to use the information weve got. and send down that submersible and have a look on the bottom and see what we can see. tony abbott, the australian prime minister, hes righ...

Do that? well, the next step is submersible, the flbluefin. takes two hours to lower it down, 16 hours down, and two hours to bring it back up again and then time to download the data. its time consuming process and it travels literally at walking pace which is why theyre getting the vessels, the "ocean shield" and the "echo" to go down and sweep those areas for as long as they can before they finally have to accept that those pingers arent going to ping any more. and then they go to that submer...

Sonar, which sweeps the bottom very effectively, its slow, its tedious. >> yeah. >> usually use the sonar first and we get the pings second. as you know. but were fortunate to have the pings at this point. >> as michael said, it goes at walking pace, madge walking an area the size of new mexico or arizona. i want to bring in miles in here if we can. lets assume they have as many clues as theyre going to get as far as the pings are concerned. i guess you have four points separated by a dozen mile...

Vehicle operates at walking pace. so until they can get a better idea of where the sounds are coming from, they dont really want to deploy that vehicle. at the moment, it is still a very complicated and very slow task. i think that was the reality of what tony abbott was saying today, milissa. >> ian williams, thank you. now to the latest on the investigation into that deadly bus crash in california. right now ten people are confirmed killed in that crash. and were learning more about those vict...

It. its a large area, but that area can be mapped, and it will take time. it will probably take six weeks, eight weeks or more. but that can be mapped, and its probably going to be mapped because the pingers are going to cease to be operating here in another week or two. >> and i imagine the pace, i think miles made this point, that it moves as slowly as walking pace. imagine walking a chunk of land the size of the area they are talking about. we are talking about a period of time here. >> exact...

Can narrow it down. they really do have to narrow it down as far as possible before they put the submersible down because that thing goes at walking pace. they have tried to narrow that down further. still a long way to go. >> michael holmes, thank you. coming up, if the plane did crash into the indian ocean, what would that look like after more than a month under the sea and how would that affect what investigators are looking for and where? plus a mystery on the board of alabama. two navy seal...