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To find anything down there, and whether it can send back pictures that are clear enough. so is there anything out there that can do the job better? rosa flores has the story. >> reporter: this 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 look for. >> reporter: hydroid makes the remus family of auvs. this is the remus 600. a larger auv, ...

And silt, how challenging is it for the search? >> reporter: don, you can see we're out on the boat, i want to introduce you. just -- the indian ocean we've there.how rough it is to work can you put it in perspective for us? >> from a sonar perspective it is actually a good environment, it is very deep, you want to get the sonar down very deep. but the complexity of the depth, to get the sonar down deep you have to put it on the auv. it has to have navigation, communications and dive down deep. it is really complex. >> let's go and look at the data that they're likely getting from a side scan ...

They first sent down the auv, they have narrowed the area down to where they believe they can cover it in a matter of a couple of weeks. but if they do not find something there, then you're looking at plan b. they're not going to rush into plan b. they're going to go away and think well, first of all, do we now have to search the arc between the 6 1/2 ping and the 6 ping? that's 300 miles long and 30 miles wide. so that's going to be a major undertaking. they're going have to regroup, as they did with air france 447, and which i suspect you did several times on projects you have done. >> did y...

The bluefin that is an auv, autonomous under water vehicle. it's not tethered, but nor can you -- >> you can't retrieve anything. you can go down there and look but can't bring anything up. it looks like it may take something like this. we should point out, carol, until you find the wreck, you don't get to do any of this. we're still waiting for that point to happen. what an amazing view. the fact you can see it, watch it happen live and i actually haven't gotten around the bend is the other great achievement. >> poor marty. hopefully you can go back to the surface. i understand you are a litt...

Flight. >> reporter: the remus 6000 can navigate in waters almost 5,000 deeper than the bluefin 21, which is currently being used in the search for malaysia flight 370. after the remus auvs use side scan sonar to map the ocean floor, they usually come back with what is 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 is something on the bottom for us to go look at. >> reporter: but take a look at these images taken at a higher frequency. >> you can clearly see the ...