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No reason to think that they won't be able to find them. and as soon as the weather permits they can get those pinger locators working again as well. i think they will. >> do you find there is greater relevancy of this new investigation into airasia indonesia or is this a peripheral element as crews continue to search for the victims and the wreckage? >> no, i think this is probably the tip of the iceberg of what we're going to find. our federal aviation administration actually grades foreign countries on their compliance with aviation safety regulations and many times the faa has found indone...

But most of the rainfall should be the heaviest confined just down the south which is good news. the winds are kicking up and coming in from the northwest and that's at that rob. notice our rain heavier to the south but still in our search zone and again when we look at the winds, as they are parallel this will give fits to dive crews. it's the safety of getting them in and out of the water. once they are down 30 or 40 feet the water is a little calmer. but it's a problem for the vessels that may want to tow the pinger locators or sonars. they have to do that at night. still concerned about a ...

Mountain floor that has deep crevasses that causes the force in the ocean to push debris. that debris is not going to move much at all. in fact it probably won't so they have to find that. also consider the channel shallow. this is good news for the pinger locators. it doesn't have to work and bounce off different frequencies or different walls and crevasses as mentioned and they should get a handle on it. quickly for you, this is the picture out of the c130 aircraft that shows you the rainfall and how saturated it is and this is playing a role in the low visibility and at least the dive crews...

Search it was too dangerous to get diver teams in and out of the water and once they're in the water and they're down 25 30 feet that's fine. it's stashlized and not only is the java sea shallow and joe mentioned it would be easier to retrieve the craft, but there is sediment but the seas yesterday were up and down. the vessels were not fighting seas coming in from one direction. because they were slow moving it sloshes the water and when that happens you just can't tow the pinger locators you can't tow the sonars. we had problems in the south indian ocean with the malaysia 370 flight the aust...

Ago. >> as we made clear we're ready to help in any way we can. we've assisted in these searches before unfortunately so we have some experience at this. as you may recall with malaysia flight 370 we provided towed pinger locators underwater passive sonar devices used to help detect the pinging of the black boxes. those could be brought in. again, we've got no request for that right now but we're preparing ourselves for the eventuality they could be used and we have side scan sonar, which we also used with malaysia flight 370 to try to help find debris on the bottom surface of the ocean. >> so...