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Seas. in some places it's zero visibility. could special technology be helpful in those conditions? >> yes, it's getting the technology down there. sonar can look through the dirty water and see what's there. you can get close up pictures of it with these tools. it's getting them there. with this vehicle, you can get in and under the waves and not have the effect of up and down motion of towed sonar these things you can launch multiple auv and -- i've got a remote in my hand that can launch six missions. download data to your laptops. one vehicle or one person can do the work of six people tha...

You get on the radio and tell them you have a big problem. it's likely that as you get lower you'll be able to restart the engines. in any case, that's not what happened in this case. we didn't hear from them at all. >> you don't disappear off radar if you have a dual engine failure. i want to widen out our shot because, tim, you brought with you this auv that's extroids narrowly unique. i was thinking why didn't i see this during mh 370 when we did so much coverage with the underwater details patrolling the sea. and there's a good reason. >> new technology. larger ones are the precursor. thes...

Now. what you're seeing be used is towed pinger locateors. that's what's being dragged behind ships to survey the ocean and find the plane. the auvs will be deployed once they found a reasonable area where they think the plane might be. it's a smaller area where you can send these auvs under water and detect smaller things like a black box potentially. >> i want seems it would be helpful given the rough weather and sending divers in could be dangerous. without a diver in i want that clearly might be a good option down the road. >> it is. because if the sea is rough up top and there's a lot of ...

Latest technology that could be used to find airasia flight 8501. it is equipped with side scan sonar which can be used to find things that don't belong. >> what is side scan sonar? >> it is an acoustic technology that is based on reflections of sound rather than reflections of light. >> reporter: the under water vehicle, an auv is gathering information to create a map of the sea floor. this is the bottom of a massachusetts reservoir. out on the java sea, boats are using sonar to search for debris of the plane's flight. >> if there is a package inside of the vehicle and it is a computer that p...

The team from massachusetts is already had dramatic success locating the wreckage of air france 447 two years after it crashed in the south atlantic ocean. discovery possible because of this a.u.v. this is the shot of the air france debris captured from the a.u.v. >> they can go up mountains up a slope. they are stable. you get really good data. >> reporter: another a.u.v. that could be used? dorado based at the research insurance institute in california where stephanie elam visited. the other option is man submarines. this vehicle that resembles a space ship is a johnson sea link base base ba...