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See how easy it is to locate it. >> i'm going to turn this on. tune it to the frequency. i'll see if i can do this. before i point this out, i don't know if they still have the tight shot, it says keep in a cool dry place in that box. that's important, we're going to dawk about that in a minute. here's the pinger, it's attached to the black or orange box, as soon as it goes into the water. >> it's already starting. >> it doesn't have to be fully submerged. >> if the water grounds it out, that's when it knows to start pinging. >> you know the terrain underneath where the search area is now, ini...

Pretty far down. does it get covered with all -- does it get hidden by all sorts of silt or dirt on the ocean floor and current move it? what's the story once it gets down there? >> it really probably depends on the bottom. but, remembering air france, i saw pictures of the black-out orange box sitting on the bottom, and it was bright as day. it was really obvious to see. it's probably going to be sitting out in the open. the real question is that the wreckage comes to lie on a flat sandy area will that be easy to map or among rocks in which case they may not be able to realize they are lookin...

Pretty far down. does it get covered with all -- does it get hidden by all sorts of silt or dirt on the ocean floor and current move it? what's the story once it gets down there? >> it really probably depends on the bottom. but, remembering air france, i saw pictures of the black-out orange box sitting on the bottom, and it was bright as day. it was really obvious to see. it's probably going to be sitting out in the open. the real question is that the wreckage comes to lie on a flat sandy area will that be easy to map or among rocks in which case they may not be able to realize they are lookin...

And when they are recovered. you're being looking at video from that show and tell and the lab examines 650 flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders a year. about a third of them come from foreign governments. they are very hopeful that they will be able to recover information if and when it's recovered and someone actually asked, what has been your luck as far as pulling information out of it if it's been submersed in water. they can't think of a time when they weren't able to pull information off. >> this is it. a small box like this is what they are searching for. the so-called ora...

Renamed the big board there. let's go to the first question, this is a really good question from bobby jones on facebook earlier today. he asked if the elt, the emergency locater transmitter activated by submersion in water, has not been located, why are they searching? that is a really good question. >> the tracks, one to the north and south, the thought process is a lot of the governments say they have pretty strong radar and there is a pretty good chance they would have seen the return from the triple 7. ergo, let's look on the southern corridor. and that is why i think the search has been ...