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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...

A crew member who keeps an eye on the vital signs and soot scientist share the back area, which is only 5 1/2 by 3 feet. >> so, just to give our viewers an idea how tight it is, this is how you are sitting. this is how i'm sitting and you can be here for hours. >> reporter: but during those hours this is what is taking place. >> so we fire up the sonar system. it does a sweep and paints us a picture as it spins 360 degrees. if there are solid targets on the bottom it will beep and paint a small picture of what it looks like and we can motor that way. >> the use of high-tech underwater manned v...

It is also about 11 feet tall and it weighs about 28,000 pounds. it has enough oxygen and emergency provisions on board for the people to survive underwater for up to five days. there's also a bat cabin on the submersible called the aft observation chamber. a crew member who keeps an eye on the submersible's vital signs and another scientist share that back area which is only 5 1/2 by 3 feet. so, just to give our viewers an idea how tight it is, this is how you are sitting. this is how i'm sitting and you can be here for hours. but during those hours this is what is taking place. >> so we fire...

>> there was also a bat cabin called the observation chamber. a crew member. >> so. >> this is how you're sitting. this is how i'm sitting. and we could be there for hours. >> this is what's taking place. >> so we fire up the sonar system and it takes a sweep. if there is any solid stargts it will people and we will go ahead and look at it that way. >> by looking for wreckage, manned submersible offer an important dimension. >> you're saying that sometimes having a human being being able to look around, i could spot things that an unmanned

Manipulator does the important work of grabbing, scooping and sucking up samples that are recovered. this sub is about 24 feet long and 11 feet tall. it weighs about 28,000 pounds. it has enough oxygen, and emergency provisions on board for the people to survive under water for up to five days. >> reporter: there is also a back cabin on the submersible. a crew keeps an eye on the submersible. and another sub shares the area, about 5 x 3 feet. >> so to give the viewers how tight it is. this is how you're sitting. this is how i'm sitting and you could be here for hours. >> reporter: but during t...