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Autonomous underwater vehicle. for the people who run it it s basically a smart torpedo. reporter: and right now it may be the best remaining hope for finding wreckage from flight 370. we were given exclusive access behind the scenes at phoenix international, the company which runs the bluefin, to see just how it works. while it may launch from the side of a search ship, the bluefin is actually operated by remote control with help from a satellite. its job, not to listen for pings but to map the ocean floor and look for debris. to do that, it can use two different payloads which have to be swapped out. this particular payload section is the acoustic section. reporter: first the bluefin uses side-scan sonar and a multibeam echo sounder, detectors that bounce sound waves off objects on the ocean floor that aren t natural. the bluefin can be brought to the surface, the sonar technology gets taken out, and high-tech cameras put in. it s a high definition black and white camera ....

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