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It is also 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 underwater for up to five days. there's also a bat 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 5 1/2 by 3 feet. so, just to give our viewers an idea how tight it is, this is how you are sitting. this is how i'm sitting and you can be here for hours. but during those hours this is what is taking place. >> so we fire...

>> there was also a bat cabin called the observation chamber. a crew member. >> so. >> this is how you're sitting. this is how i'm sitting. and we could be there for hours. >> this is what's taking place. >> so we fire up the sonar system and it takes a sweep. if there is any solid stargts it will people and we will go ahead and look at it that way. >> by looking for wreckage, manned submersible offer an important dimension. >> you're saying that sometimes having a human being being able to look around, i could spot things that an unmanned

Be? >> very effective. >> reporter: this is the view of the submersible in the atlantic ocean. it can go 3,000 feet deep. like all research subs it's slow. only travels just one mile an hour when searching. the sub was called to duty in 1986 after the space shuttle "challenger" exploded. and it recovered some of the wreckage from the ill-fated shuttle. >> we have the capability of lifting 1,000 pounds of weight to the surface. >> reporter: the front of the submersible, a tool called the manipulator that grabs, scoops and sucks up samples that are recovered. this sub is 24-feet long. it is also...