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sitting and waiting because this data doesn't even get into the computers on the ship until they can get the submirrorsable back on board. the message we got today from u.s. navy captain mark matthews is that this whole process is really going to slow down. >> patience, people need to have patience. when we send the bluefin-21 on a mission, it essentially takes 24 hours to do a full mission and be turned around and put back into the water. it then takes a few hours to analyze the data that was collected on the previous mission. so the rate of information flow is certainly going to be a little more than a day apart. >> reporter: so as far as we know, michaela, the scanning is happing at this hour but it's going to be a while before we find what, if anything, was actually found. >> that's one aspect of the search. we also heard from the coordinator, ang gus houston, saying the air and the surface search, that operation likely to end in the next couple of days. given the fact that no debris