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Unmanned vehicle. >> it's a lot of work, it's tedious. they have to keep redoing their mapping and what they're sending the auv down to do because of the fact they don't know what they're looking for. it's sort of go down, maybe tinker again, see what you need to do the next time you send the auv down, so it's a very tedious process. >> good stuff, stephanie. may i ask a question of him and you, the question is, he sort of, you know, touched on it a little bit about your question the bluefin. is that bluefin and are these auvs that temperamental because twice now we've had issues with it. just...

Even the high amount that we see is one piece of plastic every square ten feet or so. so even though there is a lot of plastic it is very much extended over huge areas, thousands of miles. >> uh-huh. so the best way to stop it on the surface is to be aware of it and stop dumping stuff in the ocean if we can avoid it. and what about below the surface in the area they're searching? what types of debris can be found on the ocean floor, erik? >> well, to be honest, we don't know enough about the ocean floor and about the type of debris there is. and really there was only one study that came out la...

Sucking up samples. this is about 24 feet long, about 11 feet tall, and it weighs about 28,000 pounds. it has enough oxygen and emergency provisions on board for the people to survive under water for up to five days. there is also a back cabin on the submersible called the aft observation chamber. a crew member who keeps an eye on the submersible's vital signs and another scientist share that back area, which is only about 5 1/2 feet by 3 feet. so just to give our viewers an idea how tight it is, this is where you're sitting, this is how i'm sitting, and you could be here for hours. >> reporte...

They're using sonar that is made by your company. it's a different kind. but can you show what's this mapping looks like when they get that image back? can we go inside and look at that so we get an idea. >> first of all, they're building a -- we've already seen this mow the lawn pattern. that's what we've been doing here today. we have a grid pattern here. the boat is over here. we've been mowing along. and slowly building up a map of different things that are on the sea floor. this is what the mission planning they have done on the auv. but the data itself, this is what side-scan sonar data ...

Patience because of the pace these things move at now. >> rob what do you think? >> i agree. i think the first two pinger locator -- locations, the most promising. the other two, not so much. i think that the key sign that you're seeing in the level of confidence and search controllers or from the search controllers the fact they're using a tactical auv, honed down to a small area, high resolution imagery and a very specific place. >> talk about what they're using. yesterday i spoke with the deputy director for diving for the u.s. navy, and i asked why other underwater search tools have not be...