processors and you have to get it out of the water to then download all of the information and analyze it from there. it should be a fairly quicker process. one thing i would like to say, carol, eight to nine months is more in line with realistic expectations. the whole investigation has been conducted quite unorthodoxly in terms of we went straight for the needle of black boxes and we hope to find debris from black boxes. that's not the way investigations find. you find the debris which takes you to the black box air france 447. we have to manage our expectations a bit and eight to nine months is what is in line with my expectations are. >> they say debris is so water-logged now that it would sink and possibly be buried under the silt on the bottom of the ocean. >> well, you know, that's true for a lot of debris. i still think that there's a great possibility because the structure of this aircraft has a lot of composite structure in it in which it's a poxy bonded