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447, three vehicles in the water at one time. thisr triples productivity and allows you to have systems to work cooperatively together to increase the effectiveness of the search that's going on. >> does that make sense, rob, to bring in other equipment, and you'd do it simultaneously, bluefin-21, remus 6,000, presumably other equipment brought in as well? >> there is. it's a question of what it is you're trying to achieve. if you're trying to achieve a very detailed analysis of a small area, as we are with the pinger locations, then an auv with a short range but high resolution sonar package ...

>> yeah, they're saying there's going to be heavy showers out there and the swells will get going. that will cause problems for ocean shield. certainly when the auv comes up to the top, the bluefin-21 and getting it connected to the ship and on to the ship, itself. as for the visual search, that will have the biggest effect on the visual search because the low cloud cover or white caps in the swells don't make their job easier. they may put that off for a day or two until the storm goes by. keep in mind, the visual search is already very difficult given it's been so many days since this airlin...

Has completed its search of that primary area. and using one auv, it takes a little bit longer. if they had two systems, they could be operating in tandem while one is coming up and downloading and charging, the other could be operating. the operation does take a little time and they are making good progress. >> this is certainly a search that's required patience from the beginning. thanks very much to the panel. i know we'll have another opportunity. thanks to all of you for joining us. coming up in this hour, investigators in south korea release frantic radio traffic between the crew of the ...

Crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago an auv, an autonomous underwater vehicle, discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. >> having the right tool is always the best case that you're looking for. >> it makes the remis family of auvs, this is the ream is 600. a larger, the remis 6000 found the france flight. >> at the end of the day we knew what we were doing was to help people answer questions about what happened to that flight. >> so it's the bluefin 21 which is currently being used in the search...

They looked at the fleet and this is the one deep water that was available and sent out the bluefin-21. we pent on a search for an auv to go deeper than the bluefin-21 and here it is. this world war ii 2 era plane crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years, it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago, an auv, aon the mouse underwater vehicle discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. having the right tool is always the best case that you're looking for. >> reporter: high droid make it is remus family of auv. this is a larger auv and found air fra...