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Bodies. one of them spots something. he's unsure what exactly. the captain calls it in, a larger ship in the area will investigate. this search and rescue boat has a specific mission, to deliver a pinger locator to help with the vital search for the so-called black boxes. but the captain is nervous about the weather. i feel a heavy moral burden, he says. i have a responsibility to keep those on board safe, but it's so important to help find bodies and debris. larger ships can cope with these conditions, he says. this is not a large ship. sector 4 of the search zone, the contact boat is in sigh...

This tow fish that we're deploying off the "fort worth," they basically can do the job of a, the a tpo. >> you think they'll be able to detect the ping from the so-called black boxes -- >> the tow fish is capable of detecting the ping from the black boxes, absolutely. it's also a side-scan sonar. so it does two things. it can map the ocean floor to help us locate wreckage and find it. >> but so far, no pings detected? >> nothing. >> as far as you know? >> no. >> let's say there is a ping that's detected. who will be responsible for going down there and actually collecting these black boxes? wi...

And noise levels are good so they know they're getting good coverage we won't know. >> reporter: but he says the indications he's getting point to a likely successful recovery of the black boxes. what's working in favor of the serve search teams they know the general area where the plane went down and found debris and unlike in the malaysia air search they're close to land and can shuttle personnel and equipment to the search area much easier. >> all encouraging developments. but the divers who could be deployed it's relatively shallow water and could face some real dangers. >> that's right. y...

Office depot & officemax. gear up for great. we're back with the breaking news. the search at the airasia crash site now getting back under way and an unconfirmed report that the tail might have been found. that's raising hopes that the black boxes may soon be located, as well. brian todd is tracking the hunt under the sea for us. brian, what are you learning? >> reporter: this is an urgent two-pronged search effort. you have the search for bodies and debate but have an urgent scramble to find the black boxes that are going to tell us how and why airasia flight 8501 went down. this search is...

More than 100 nautical miles to the search zone calm waters and sunshine soon disappear. we've been on the sea now for about four hours, we have another three or four hours to go and as you can see, the weather has started to close in. the closer we get to this crash location. but we're being told that even though these waves are fairly high and you can see it's a lot choppier than it was, that this is still considered fairly good weather. this is better than it has been for some days. the crew looks for deb reeris and bodies. one of them spots something. he's unsure what exactly. the captain ...