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>> roy, the bluefin-21 is not the only autonomous underwater vehicle. we know there's a remis, o'ryan. do you think the bluefin was the right one to begin with? >> yes, it was the one that was immediately available. it's run by u.s. navy contractors and it's a fly away system. it was able to be on site fairly quickly. there are other assets, the lemis is an auv that can search to the south or east and west a bit. i think this should bring other assets in also. towed systems assigned assets to a certain area and broaden the search and come up with results

The information immediately, more than 19,000 feet. there is a trade off for everything. you get a bigger range, but less quality resolution than with the bluefin. next, the rena 2000. it's torpedo shaped to do the same mowing pattern to see the long lines. same thing with this one, side scan sonar like the bluefin, send it down, it comes back with the images. three were used in the search for air fran 47. the biggest difference is the depth ability. remis goes deeper. it's operated differently. overall, same category of robot. this is the remora. this was used in the search for air france fli...

Room with a nice clean whiteboard and going through what we know, what we don't know, what do we do next? it took a lot of thought. it was a long peer. months before we came up with the next plan of what to do. >> reporter: it took 70 days of subsea search missions over years to find that wreckage. in this investigation, the subsea search area could be shifted or expanded perhaps to include the other three pings and using other vehicles to scan the ocean floor. this remis 6000 was used in the search for air france 447 and can go deeper than bluefin. another option, a towed sonar system like th...

Crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago an auv, an autonomous underwater vehicle, discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. >> having the right tool is always the best case that you're looking for. >> it makes the remis family of auvs, this is the ream is 600. a larger, the remis 6000 found the france flight. >> at the end of the day we knew what we were doing was to help people answer questions about what happened to that flight. >> so it's the bluefin 21 which is currently being used in the search...

Image here that i want to look at. is this zooming in on the bow? >> yes, just zooming in on the bow. this shows you how powerful the sonar can be, jack was king of the world, the mask, some of the openings here -- >> you can get this just from one pass? >> just one pass. and sometimes we go over it two or three times to make sure we don't miss anything. >> what kind of vehicle took this? >> this is the remis 6,000, very similar to the type of vehicle that the bluefin-21 is. >> so it goes 6,000 -- >> it goes deeper, so it is incredible work. >> this is another image of the titanic, extraordina...