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CNN CNN Special Report April 15, 2014 06:16:00

deep and surface operations are expected to end soon in the area. officials believe the aircraft most likely entered the water. for the latest on the sub and when it's expected back in the water, i spoke a short time ago with our michael holmes in perth, australia. >> reporter: we're expecting it to go back into the water in the next few years. as you said, it went down on its first mission that was metropolitan to be a 24-hour -- meant to be a 24-hour operation, two hours down, 16 hours on the bottom, two hours back up. it was only six hours on the bottom where -- and this speaks about the ocean floor in pa part of the indian ocean. they thought that the ocean floor was somewhere around 4,200 to 4,400 meters. by the time it got to 4,500, an automatic switch basically flipped inside the submersible. told it was too deep, and it came back up to the surface. they spent several hours now getting it out of the water and downloading what data there was

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