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Business correspondent olivia who covering this story. >> i want to point out another piece of military equipment from the u.s. navy that's been deployed to assist in the search and recovery efforts. the navy official sharing with roerts the fly away deep salvage system is also being made available. this piece of equipment is used to dive deep into the ocean. it can go as far as 20,000 feet to retrieve objects that have sunk to the bottom of the ocean. so 20,000 feet far exceeds depth of where the titanic rests. this would be deep enough to go. what will be interesting to hear at the 3:00 pres...

It could be a criminal act and the ntsb took over when it was an accident. in this type of case there's no criminal activity alleged, there's somewhat of concern about the safety of this thing, there was a trade, an industry group of deep ocean explorers wrote a letter to this company saying they had concerns about the experimental nature of this vessel and if there was a catastrophic failure, not only would hurt this company but hurt the industry, the deep ocean exploration industry at large, and they were concerned with the experimental nat you are of the vessel. i think it needs to be an in...

To bring something up from the bottom of the ocean, are they analyzing photos, where is that analysis taking place. we're going to get more answers at the 3:00 p.m. press conference in boston, but certainly the process going on now in the short term, would love to hear you speak to that, dakota. >> side scanning sonar is part of the capabilities of these remotely operated vehicles. you can get dimensional data in a flat sense of what it looks like. you can also get photographic evidence. is it white, shiny, does it appear to be components that are known to be on that vessel, and then if one of...

Of this. what do you -- >> james cameron is an expert in deep water -- particularly deep water ocean be cinematography. the titanic film is one of the -- absolutely the most famous titanic film of all time. he has a special interest in the deep ocean. i'm sure -- i don't know all of what his opinion is on this versus another. but i know that he cares deeply about the deep ocean, too. like p.h., like stockton. i know p.h. and james cameron were friends. i'm sure stockton and all probably know each other. it's a small community of people. and i think -- look, the sub that i dove in is called the...

The ocean is nearly 7 miles deep. The Titanic is nowhere near the bottom at only 12,500 feet down. The deepest point, Challenger Deep, is 35,839 feet.