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Worked on everything from tanker trucks to planes. he says every job is complicated by the harsh elements. >> what conditions are we dealing with here? >> the indian ocean is notorious for high seas. >> reporter: he says when the time comes, it will likely take the rov more than three hours just to make the three-mile journey to the bottom of the indian ocean. its sonar and pings the only guides in complete darkness. as the pilot maneuvers the rov to begin the task of salvaging if wreckage is found. a control room similar to this usually sits on the ship above the wreckage. posts and manipulat...

Builds and runs rovs for global diving and salvage in seattle. he has recovered everything from tanker trucks to planes. he says every job is a delicate maneuver, complicated by the harshest elements. what conditions are crews dealing with here? >> the indian ocean is notorious for high seas. on a regular day, they're going to have 14 to 16-foot sea there's. >> reporter: crumpton says when the time comes, it will likely take the rov more than three hours just to make the three-mile journey to the bottom of the indian ocean. its son far and pings the only guides in complete darkness. pilot warr...

Automatic pilot, that -- i'm not going to say that is the explanation, but that is an ex-an place. >> an explanation how we would not have a bunch of stuff. >> it is just a huge, huge ocean out there full of junk and maybe the debris's out there, we just haven't found it. >> when you look at the salvaging or whatever you bring up, what's -- we know the black box is the priority, hopefully that would tell us what the heck happened, what then? do you leave it rest? >> the black boxes? >> no, no the black boxes i'm assuming you bring up. naught aside. everything else? >> well, certainly, a very t...

But they are saying it is where they found the ming is 4500 meters. the working conditions for a black box is 4500 meters. could that be a constraint? >> it will be in the salvaging effort and finding it. but if they can get 1 or 2 more cuts. and lines of bearing to take the area of uncertainity down. it will do a under water search and come back up to the service and down load the information off like you would a hard drive. and if they find something that is aircraft debris. it will be replaced with a sonar

It's important to bear that in mind. if you were to start on that wing over there, if you stood on the wing and you could walk right through the middle of the plane to the other wing, when you stepped out on the other side, you would have covered about 36 feet. that gives you an idea how big it is. if you started on a wing tip and you walked all the way to other wing tip over there, 212 feet. so yes, wolf, you could get pieces that big out of an airplane this large. and that is another reason why they were looking at this evidence so closely and wondering if this leads to the very grim busines...