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Now. and we're entering a new phase of the investigation and a navy salvage team has been called in. >> one week after the ship sank this is no longer a rescue but the search is really important. now there is a goal of finding the ship. bunz you find the ship searchers will have a better chance of finding the data recorders and that would really hold a lot of the answers. that data recorder would have started pinging once it hits the water. it has a battery life about 30 days. some of the information contained will be various records from the bridge. certainly that is something that the coast ...

Ship had lost propulsion. that's when they lost contact. so now you have the ntsb, and it is their job to get on site and to try and determine why the ship lost propulsion. they'll be on site for seven to ten days. but as you've pointed out this morning, a key piece of this investigation could be recovering the data recorders. and while the focus is on finding survivors, some of those resources will have to wait to be deployed in order to go search for those data recorders. >> and, of course, the clock's ticking on those because the pingers only work for 30 days. so the countdown is on in many...

They're trained, he had a life at sea. i would have no doubt that a ship that goes through inspection such at al far owe, he should not have had a problem navigating through that storm. it would be rough, that's for sure. >> what's the question that still remains for you? >> i don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of why did they lose propulsion. the vessel is in 15,000 feet of water. it's really going to be too hard to tell. there are data recorders. could you have an unmanned submersible possibly recovered that if they could find it. ntsb is going to have a very hard time getting to the...

With the probable cause, in other words, try to determine exactly what happened to this vessel, why it did not make it to san juan, puerto rico, which is where it was headed when it apparently ran head-on into hurricane joaquin. pamela? >> we're learning the search for survivors may be ending, but the search for answers as you point out, martin, continue. alexandra, on that note, what do we know about the status of the black box search? >> this will now become the focus. earlier, we knew that they were certainly looking for these data recorders because they could hold some really key pieces of...

I think more what they're looking into and their expertise is going to be concerned with is what the damage part can tell about the crash itself. one of the things that happened here is flight 447 the france flight on the way from brazil that disappeared in the atlanta. one of the first pieces of debris picked out of the ocean was a food service cart. it had trays inside that collapsed on top of each other. later after they found the cockpit voice recorder they discovered in fact because the plane pancaked into the ocean. it had no forward speed it stalled at altitude. it was not something con...