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Perth, australia, and is following the latest developments. what is the latest, miguel? >> reporter: the latest is that the bluefin is down for its latest dive. we'll get a readout on that dive in about four or five hours as it typically happens. as it goes through the last bit of the promising area, if they can't find it there, they will have to go back to the drawing board and figure out a new plan. new pictures show bluefin-21 on the deck of "ocean shield," the best hope for finding missing malaysia flight 370. it's prepped for another dive. the vessel has searched t two-thirds of the most ...

>> yeah, they're saying there's going to be heavy showers out there and the swells will get going. that will cause problems for ocean shield. certainly when the auv comes up to the top, the bluefin-21 and getting it connected to the ship and on to the ship, itself. as for the visual search, that will have the biggest effect on the visual search because the low cloud cover or white caps in the swells don't make their job easier. they may put that off for a day or two until the storm goes by. keep in mind, the visual search is already very difficult given it's been so many days since this airlin...

Officials. >> she believes that my daughter is still alive. now, u.s. navy spokesperson saying that there are now ongoing discussions between the u.s. and stakeholders here in australia talking about the way forward if it is not found in this current round of searching, then they will have to go back and figure out how they go forward in the next several months. that could mean bringing on more auvs, more resources in order to look for that airliner. wolf? >> miguel marquez reporting live from perth, thanks. richard quest is now live in kuala lumpur. tom fuentes and peter goelz and joe johns, ...

>> and the effects of that tropic tropical cyclone can be pelt in the search area. it may impact the ship above the water, the ocean shield, but the bluefin, itself, works well under the water. the big issue is put it down in the weather, bringing it back up when there's bad weather. >> stand by for a moment. i want to go live to the staging area. cnn's miguel marquez is joining us from perth, australia, with the very latest. what are you learning, miguel? >> reporter: we know if nothing is found in the next couple days, as they work their way through this most promising area of the search zon...

The ones that have been flying every day that we've spoken to, maintain a determination, if not an optimism, a determination to carry on that search to the last hour. and that last hour, it would appear, is approaching when it comes to surface debris. but there has been those major weather events out in the area there. as i said, they're looking about 300, 400 miles west of where the ocean shield has put down the bluefin there. because of the ocean movements and also a major storm that went through there, that some experts say could have pushed floating debris to the bottom. they certainly hav...