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Mission. >> at the end of the day we knew what we were doing is to try to help people answer questions about that flight. >> reporter: if the bluefin-21 currently being used in the search for malaysia flight 370 can't find the missing jet searchers could call upon the remus 6000 and navigate in waters almost 5,000 feet deeper than the bluefin-21. >> basically operated in most of the world's oceans. >> reporter: when searchers asked if u.s. government for an auv, the navy says, the bluefin-21 was the only deep water vehicle it had available. after the remus auvs, mapping the ocean floor, they u...

Right now the bluefin underwater drone is scouring the ocean floor for any sign of malaysia flight 370. the bluefin is on its eighth mission now. it's covered at least half of the current search zone. so far the bluefin has not found a shred of evidence linked to flight 370. with me is rhonda flores. is this the right tool for the job in. >> that's one of the big questions. we set out to find out why. we talked to the source. when these searchers asked the u.s. government for an auv, then the u.s. government looks at its fleet of auvs and figures out where is our deep sea auv and that's the bl...

Remis 6000, it can navigate in waters almost 5,000 feet deeper than the bluefin 21. >> basically it can be operated in most of the world's oceans. >> when searchers asked the u.s. government for an auv, the navy says the bluefin 21 was the only deep water vehicle it had available. after the remis auvs, use side scan sonar to map the ocean floor, they usually come back with what's called low frequency images. these are pictures it took of the submerged plane in massachusetts. >> and this shows up as different from the surrounding area indicating that there's something on the bottom for us to go...

Completed six dives to the depths of the indian ocean, but so far, no sign of debris or wreckage. it turns out there's another underwater robot that can go even deeper than the bluefin. our rosa flores has details. >> reporter: in world war ii-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, an autonomous underwater vehicle, discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. having the right tool is always the best case that you're looking for. >> reporter: hydroid makes the remus family of auvs. ...

Statement to nearly any part of the ocean, to be honest, michael. we don't know what we don't know. the issue here is the terrain is relatively challenging for a search of this type. you know, the way the search system works is it is emitting sound which is essentially radiating out from the auv that is bounced off sea floor. and what we are looking for are bounces that correspond to debris. if you have rocks or reef, it makes the challenge of identifying debris versus geology more difficult. christina showed us the map that shows how hard it will be to find the debris. >> christina, we have t...