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The ocean's surface pretty tricky business, full stop. but it's really at the limits of the bluefin 21 is's capabilities, as we saw yesterday as it was searching the ocean floor and encountered waters deeper than its capacity. it had been preprogrammed to go that, they don't want to lose it technicians downloaded the data and wanted to put it down into the water again but were not able to because of another challenge, the weather. and as far as we know, it's still on board the "ocean shield" still not searching because of the weather conditions, michaela. >> so, i think a lot of people are won...

>> reporter: no timetable has been given yet. the seventh fleet -- u.s. navy seventh fleet, operating the bluefin 21 on board the "ocean shield," putting out a press statement saying that weather is a factor. it's not in the water yet. important to note that that six hours involves some two hours of the bluefin 21 actually getting down to the ocean surface. it had two hours to search and two hours coming up. it was only searching the surface of the ocean for two hours. the data collected, the seventh fleet releasing the statement saying no new objects of interest found. officials here in austr...

Too surprising that they didn't find anything, that the bluefin-21 didn't find anything during that search. it really only lasted about two hours on the ocean floor, covering what must have been a fraction of the 15-square-mile area that was designated for the day's mission, that area being the most probable place for the black box, that according to officials based on those pings that were heard last week. this is going to be a slow and painstaking process, that according to officials here. nothing happens quickly in waters of this depth. and what happened in terms of the bluefin-21 in its fi...

Analyzing the data it did manage to require. it says that no objects of interest had been found. we understand that it is currently aboard the ocean shield. bad weather preventing it from being put back into the water. chris? >> thank you for the reporting. let's bring in cnn aviation analyst and former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation mary schiavo and cnn safety analyst and former faa inspector david soucie, author of "why planes cra crash." let's start with what is not a surprise and then go with what is a surprise. what's not a surprise is that the bluefin encount...

It was expected to scour the ocean floor for deb british the whole journey lasting 20 hours but instead, the device resurfaced after officials say it exceeded its maximum operating depth of 14,800 feed feet. >> we just hit a deeper spot than we initially planned, just bring it up, reprogram it, shift a little bit away from that deeper area and adjust our search pattern. >> meanwhile, a new detail emerging, a u.s. official tells cnn the co-pilot's cell phone was on during the play and made contact with the malaysian cell tower. according to information shared by investigators. that cell phone s...