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Then i branched off on my own. >> and that was when i made a living, in the offshore drilling business. we were innovators to the degree that we were the first ones to use the laterno design jack up rigs. >> as the construction starts, the giant tanks that will rest on the ocean bottom are assembled at the construction site. these tanks enable the platform to operate on relatively soft
Up to 100 feet. that's where the ocean bottom is. that's where they think the flight data recorders are and the main fuselage of the plane itself. as you mentioned, they have been bringing up debrirks personal effects and we've seen some very emotional scenes, a 52-year-old man reduced to tear, instantly weeping at the sight of his 24-year-old son's black sneaker mixed in here among the other personal belongings that they've fished out of the java sea after this terrible disaster. this investigation is going on as to why this brand new boeing 737 hit the ocean so soon after take-off on monday....
Move. there's long way to survive her it's like just hide your identity in. bangladesh what's the true face of the country because you're discounting an ocean bottom of the should be from a maybe. spy not functional language deshmukh the dawn of islam as a team. more oh. this is g.w. news more i go from berlin to bring in our correspondent michael holmes or really should join us from rio de janeiro we're here to find out what happened to debbie and sonny. again she is the head of the environmental team is with me is get up
Marco getting the storm surge flooding and we are seeing that flash flood emergency for marco island proper. ten to 15 foot surge on top of places that were completely dry. honestly, the ocean bottom was exposed four feet or so, the ocean bottom was exposed. you could see the sand, you could see the fish, you could see the coral and the sponge and now all of a sudden that's going to be covered with ten to 15 feet of water. chris, i am seeing you, can you hear me and can you go? >> reporter: oh, no, i have you. i was just testing out these hurricane specs that you told me not to waste the money...
Machines. but the only thing that's big in the sky and the ocean is the sky and the ocean. it is less than a needle in a haystack. it is a pinprick in a haystack. we started with 23,000 square miles of search area. we now have a priority search area of 4200 square miles. it's only being covered by three search ships, one of which is having technical difficulties now. but what we've done that's been wonderfully successful is we've mapped about 77,000 square miles of ocean bottom. >> okay. >> so that's going to allow us to search four times faster than we had in the past. >> well, that's reassur...