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>> reporter: this is where neil campbell and his team forensically examine data recorders from planes, trains and ships. >> the reality is there are very few countries who have the technical know how to work out what's inside one of these things, and this lab is one of those places. >> reporter: boxes from other investigations torn apart, burned, damaged in many ways suggest a tough assignment, but here they say the story of what happened is usually found. >> a lot of our work is with undamaged recorders. it's very easy to download them. >> reporter: even with very damaged ones, your success r...

Ferries do not have data recorders. passenger vessels under certain tonnages are required to have voice data recorders. that's something that's going to need to be looked at to see if this needs to be changed or if they just weren't carrying one if it was required. >> if they have these short distance rules, korean waters, not international waters. do we have the same rule hearse or do we have voyage data recorders on all ships that come in and out of the u.s.? >> well, like i said, it's -- on most passenger vessels of a certain gross tonnage is what they talk about having them. so a lot of sm...

And flight data recorders that could unlock the mystery. new momentum for the idea to avoid having to recover black boxes. cnn has learned malaysian authorities recommended to international regulators that commercial aircraft should be tracked in real-time. is it time for that? are these obsolete? >> i feel a few people today in the world after the malaysian air crash who wouldn't say yes. this is old technology. >> reporter: now the ntsb is reviewing new technology for airliners to live stream flight data back to the ground as they fly. one challenge, the ntsb sees too many planes transmittin...

Know-how to unlock the plane's black box and unlock the secrets inside. one of the countries is australia, the inventories of the black box. this is our audio laboratory. it's shielded. >> electronics and audio. >> outside signals and as well it's got very good soundproofing. >> inside the australian soundproof -- where he and his team examine data recorders not just from planes but also trains and ships. >> now the reality is there are very few countries in the world, just a handful of them who have

One of those places it can do it is in the australian capital. the investigators are confident they could pull off information. we saw a bunch of damaged recorder and cockpit voice recorders, as well. they have pretty much always risen to the challenge and got the information off. they have done many black box investigation. they are not just planes, don but also trains and believe it or not, ships, they have black boxes, as well. one side bar fact i have to say, as an australian, it was david warren, an australian who was credited with the first version of the black box in the 1950s. >> even ...