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Object we believed to be not more than one meter by one meter. >> reporter: they launched a team, imflatable raft and they had enough fuel to direct them to the object. >> it was a large bred basket, the kind youd find in a supermarket holding 20 loaves of bread. >> reporter: not from mh370. another frustration. the mission goes on. now that was just one sorties in many hundreds of sorties that have flown across much of the swathe of the oceans. they are so good and dedicated, despite how tediou...

Mystery in human -- mankind which is what angus houston said recently. lots of false alarms came out of this, and it must have been so difficult on the crews that were out there, but you were there with them on a daily basis. you said it seemed like their mood declined rapidly during this search. >> yes. >> i cant imagine what it was like for the families. for us it felt like "groundhog day" every single day. what was it like for them? >> i think, you know, in the very beginning there was a lot ...

Which is what angus houston said recently. lots of false alarms came out of this, and it must have been so difficult on the crews that were out there, but you were there with them on a daily basis. you said it seemed like their mood declined rapidly during this search. >> yes. >> i cant imagine what it was like for the families. for us it felt like "groundhog day" every single day. what was it like for them? >> i think, you know, in the very beginning there was a lot of hope. i know one of the f...

That could help search teams get around one of the biggest challenges in the indian ocean, the nasty weather. >> the folks that are searching atwater level, sea level, its very difficult, its rough, lots of whitecaps, rain, cloud. and, you know, its very, very difficult to spot debris. >> and its all just a bunch of hooey, because you can only search a few square miles a day, and they dont have any idea where this is. heres why i say that. first, they searched here, and then they searched here. ...

Intelligence than they are telling us. it may be mired in politics and military defense posturing. but im absolutely convinced they do know broadly where this airplane is. and they are bringing in more resources so the malaysian prime minister coming down, i think, it adds credibility to we are look in the right place. >> all right. >> but going back to the satellite images we were talking about earlier, theres real question marks about the analysis of those images and the fact that some of thos...

Intelligence than they are telling us. it may be mired in politics and military defense posturing. but im absolutely convinced they do know broadly where this airplane is. and they are bringing in more resources so the malaysian prime minister coming down, i think, it adds credibility to we are look in the right place. >> all right. >> but going back to the satellite images we were talking about earlier, theres real question marks about the analysis of those images and the fact that some of thos...

And the sea is very angry. the amount of whitecaps. the swells were quite enormous. and i had heavy winds. >> all of captain dewitts years of experience are about to come into play. as he descends, he eyeballs the 10 to 15-foot waves and chooses one, knowing full well he has to land on top of it rather than into it or the plane could break into pieces. time of impact, 3:49 p.m. unlike us airways flight 1549, which skimmed across the top of the hudson river, this plane bobs in and out of the wave...

Currents, 200,000 strokes, 60 hours. she had a shark cage built, headed to cuba and launched from a beach surrounded by press, despite grave concerns. >> and i remember i got down to the shore with my six handlers and i have a picture of the six of us looking bewildered. were looking out at a raging sea of whitecaps. >> her navigator promised calmer seas just offshore. but instead, diana battled waves for almost eight hours. hopefully off course and ravaged by bites, they pulled her from the wat...

She had a shark cage built, headed to cuba and launched from a beach surrounded by press, despite grave concerns. >> and i remember i got down to the shore with my six handlers and i have a picture of the six of us looking bewildered. were looking out at a raging sea of whitecaps. >> her navigator promised calmer seas just offshore. but instead, diana battled waves for almost eight hours. hopefully off course and ravaged by bites, they pulled her from the water. >> it was very rough. you can ask...

Set out to do the most outrageously difficult swim she could imagine, cuba to florida, over a hundred miles in vicious currents, 200,000 strokes, 60 hours. she had a shark cage built, headed to cuba and launched from a beach surrounded by press, despite grave concerns. >> and i remember i got down to the shore with my six handlers and i have a picture of the six of us looking bewildered. were looking out at a raging sea of whitecaps. >> her navigator promised calmer seas just offshore. but inste...