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Macro data just to make sure and as you point out to the families to reassure that we're looking in the right area and that we can actually rule out this rhetoric in the north going to pakistan and so on. >> and michael, i think sometimes, a pair of fresh is you notice things that you don't know this before especially since the first were under so much pressure. >> go ahead, rob. >> that's particularly true for underwater data. when you receive sonar data, it comes as a waterfall display to the untrained eye. it looks like a black and white tv that's fizzing away. and you need somebody to go o...

Bluefin because this autonomous vehicle is used to working in deepths several miles belet surface. the bluefin 21 can dive about 2 1/2 miles but flight 370's wreckable in the indian ocean may be deeper than that. it takes about two hours for the bluefin to reach the bottom, where it can operate for another 16 hours. it scans the ocean floor as if it's mowing a lawn, aye icing side-scan sonar, which identifies objects that stand out from the seabed. when it's working with the side scanners it is not actually taking pictures, right, it's measuring sound? >> it's actually converting sound to elec...

16 hours. it scans the ocean floor as if it's mowing a lawn, using side scan sonar, which identifies objects that stand out from the seabed. . >> when it's working with the side scanners, it's not actually taking pictures, right? >> correct. it's converting sound to electricity and then turning that electrical value into numerical values and then turns it into an image. >> reporter: when it returns to the surface, scientists download the sonar data to computers. the results may look something like this. >> what we're looking at here, for example, this is a ship wreck in boston harbor. you can ...

Based on what you saw in the sonar. you would have to look at that, analyze the sizes, the pieces on bottom based on the three dimensional sonar data you developed and you would have to make up a plan to go recover that. obviously the first order of business is going to be getting the black boxes. so those -- that piece of the debris if it it was bottom would be located and accessed by remote operated vehicle from the surface that would go down and get on the wreck and use manipulators to open the wreck and recover the boxes from the wreck itself. >> you're talking a lot of apparatus here. are...