CNN CNN Special Report April 15, 2014 03:13:00
>> auvs like the bluefin-21 are the tool you use to conduct a wide area side-scan survey. >> bluefin robotics designs and builds these vehicles in quincy, massachusetts. >> if this were a mission what would it be doing? >> the radio instructions would be received and the vehicle would say i'm going to start. the propeller would spin up and it would dive. >> in the boston harbor the water is 40 feet deep. this autonomous vehicle is used to working in depths several miles below the surface. the bluefin-21 can dive two and a half miles. but flight 370's wreckage in the indian ocean may be deeper ...