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Through. help us understand what is going on here. >> the first thing they want to dies clear off all the other equipment. they don't want a bunch of other things to interfere with the sound as they bring in things like the towed pinger locator. this is the device that has recorded all four of the pings we considered before, that have been considered accurate. beyond that we have other possibilities. they have been deploying sonobuoys. these are actually designed to detect submarines. they have been modified to try to pick up pings here. one has been heard, and discounted. they don't believe i...

Boxes. it's not listening to the flight data recorders. it's just making a sonic map of the floor. we talked about it. sort of mowing the lawn down there so you can look at the map and see anomalies that might be part of the airplane. beyond that, you're going to go to something like maybe the alvin, which is a deep submerged vehicle that can take people down there with lights and look around. that could give you the eyes on that they want in the search, in the official leadership of the search if it happened. and finally, you talk about the remora 6000. it was used in the air france search. w...

Tell you where it is. to get to that level, then you go to something else, which goes even more slowly. like the bluefin 21. that is basically an underwater robot, sort of looks like a torpedo, and it goes along creating a sonic map of everything on the floor. it's not looking for this item down here. it's simply saying, let's map everything down here, and then you can look at the images and decide if you see something that looks like a ship. and if we get to this point, brooke, and we don't know if we will, if they really want to go after something, they would almost certainly at this depth b...