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They're not scuba fins they're shorter, because the current would peel you off a rock if you had those long scuba fins. you have to have a flotation device to keep your face above water in 25 to 30-mile-an-hour water. if i could do anything to beg with my brothers and sisters out there, ems, firefighters take a course in swift water rescue. they don't usually teach it in fire academies. you need to learn the power of water under a condition to where your instructors can keep you safe while you're learning what the force of water is all about and get the gear and the training and get prepared f...

Wearing them and that's all the gear that we had, was pfd, my flotation device and these little throw bags and we hooked them together and it was just enough length to make it to the tree to where i couldn't put a pfd or a life jacket on her, and then my short crew pulled me in. so they helped affect the rescue by -- yeah it was pretty harrowing. >> this is probably a dumb question but what's it like to be in water like that? i mean you know people i've talked to say, no one ever expects it to be as strong as it is there's the current you've got to deal there's objects in the water, you can't ...

And again, the weather conditions you can't fight that you have to do the best you can, and at this moment they are looking, they're visually looking for clues. for survivors, ideally. >> i wonder if at this early stage, 25 26 hours after the plane disappeared. would they be using any underwater technology or this is this all about surface, eyes on on the water? >> this is really all surface on the water. i think the next would be the aerials. i think at this point, time the water conditions again being a little bit warmer or warmer waters you do have a higher probability of survival if you ha...

Start filling in. all of a sudden it's going to be overhead as you're standing up, five, six, seven, eight feet and things will be different. >> reporter: now it's almost flat almost. >> it looks flat. it's not a great breaking beach but is only coming in in sets and infrequently right now. >> reporter: somebody called this the quiet before the storm. have you ever heard that? >> i think we all have heard that. >> reporter: but the point is this is a very serious situation that people should be mindful of. >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: so you hear it from the experts. so again we'll see what...

Plane landing at hundreds of miles an hour not breaking up, the stuff is going to spread around. we have people, as we have been hearing about, major assets deployed. we have fisherman and merchantmen going through the ocean and people on the beaches you expect to find these things turning up in ordinary people's hands. there was a firefighting bottle that turned up in the maldives and it went viral. >> there are a lot of things, like the carts that go up and down the row, those float and will stay floating. they are made out of a honeycomb structure that is sealed. which is a perfect flotatio...