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But they'll also use pinger locaters to find out where the flight data recorders are and any sort of underwater robotics they want to look through the wreckage, to retrieve some of the wreckage. they have a lot of tools as their disposal here. they will probably deploy all f of them as they try to collect every piece of this plane that they can, along with all of the victims. >> do they use the divers and submersibles at the same time? >> not everything is created equal down here. recovery of the bodies is important. the recovery of things like the flight data recorder is very important. but t...

Winds pick up lightning picks up as well. and all of a sudden you're scattering that debris even more. now, eventually we're going to get the pinger locater on top of the pinger itself and we'll find it. but i'm on board with david here with this larger debris field because for so many days we've had wibdnd. and any little piece of debris that's been sticking up out of the water at all will have windage, like a sailboat. and it will float down much faster than something slightly below the surface but not sticking up very much. so you're starting with a wind of 30 miles per hour at times. you c...

Be used to recover the wreckage of 8501? >> a lot of the similar equipment but in this particular situation, we have the added ability to put divers in the water, so you'll have your sonar tools whether they're towed sonar or awe on it news vehicles which are becoming more and more the tool for sonar, rovs, not as robust as the segment we saw because those are from deep stuff. when you're shallow you don't need as much power you have the ability to put smaller vehicles which are much more transportable. we don't need to ship them across the world in big ships. they can be flown over in a plane...

Is already ticking on that for the battery that goes out on the pinger. tom, what kind of information, if you don't have the black box, what kind of information can the investigators as ser stain. >> first of all, from the bodies they can have cause of death and they can tell what's in the lungs, what's in the body as far as whether it's explosive material smoke, if they are damaged from an explosion, shrapnel in the bodies. it's gruesome but they can tell a lot from the bodies and the pieces that they found, were they torn apart, when they look under a mike skopcroscopic examination, what typ...

Like this can still happen. this should be easier than the malaysia airlines mystery to solve and yet so far no sign of this plane. >> absolutely. it should be easier and there's really no excuse in this day and age why we don't have the technology that's out there and available in the works being installed on these aircraft. we should know where these aircraft are real time and not just be relying on a pinger that may be heard for two miles or dead after 30 days. >> that's the pinger that goes off if the plane is in the water. but what about the transponder? they're following the plane throug...