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To them if in fact there are folks up there and how can you get them out of there? >> right, i think the water temperature, 55 degrees or so. hypothermia. so my concern, hang with us, please. and we'll look at the sonar information. and when we come back, the former chairman of the ntsb will tell us what all of that means. stick around. this is the car i fell in love with!
What information will the blue fin be gathering and what will the teams be gathering? >> it is collecting sonar information. sonar is the process by which we use sound rather than light to scan the ocean floor and it will bring back a hard drive filled with digital data that analysts will then be able to look at and interpret. and it will essentially show a picture of the sea floor. it will show everything that the auv was able to see and hopefully able to find the wreckage on the sea floor. >> is there a camera? we're talking about side scan sonar. >> that's right. we are talking about sonar ...
Right now is just equipped with sonar. that's the first phase. then they have to bring it back up. you mentioned 24 hours, if we get to the phase where we have sonar information. they won't just get the data. they'll do analysis. you can get the payload and change it back to photography payload, as opposed to sonar. there's no use doing it at the same time because there are different depths. don't expect it to come out, swap out the data and put it back in the water. it takes some time to analyze it. >> 16 hours, the thing doesn't move that fast, how much ground can it cover? >> i've heard var...