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Ocean, he thinks this is what the surface zone nearly three miles down could look like. >> it is dark, it is very cold. >> with pressure so intense it crushes a styrofoam cup to a fraction of its size. the missing plane is believed to be 4500 meters, nearly 15,000 feet down. >> it is flat and the sediment is still. >> the extreme conditions will test the limits of the u.s. navy blue fin 21, beginning the slow painstaking process of mapping the ocean floor. >> people need to have patience. >> reporter: the navy captain says one mission takes 24 hours, two hours down, 16 hours scanning, two hour...

24-hour deployment. at that rate, it could take six to eight weeks to scan the area from which the pings could have emanated. we have more on the conditions so far beneath the surface. >> the search for mh-370 is moving into a dark corner of the world that in some ways is more mysterious than outer space. >> we know less about our deep ocean than we know of the moon's surface. >> reporter: this man and his research team took this video in the southern indian ocean. the professor of coastal oceanography at the university of western australia, thinks this is what the search zone nearly three mil...

Australia says this is what the search zone nearly three miles down could look like. >> it's dark, very cold. >> reporter: with pressure so intense, it crushes a styrofoam cup down to a fraction of its size, the missing plane is believed to be 4500 meters, nearly 15,000 feet down. >> it's flat and it's -- the sediment, it's silt. >> reporter: the extreme conditions will test the limits of the u.s. navy's bluefin-21 which is beginning the slow, painstaking process of mapping the ocean floor. >> patients. people need patience. >> reporter: u.s. navy captain mark matthews says one mission takes 2...

Intense, it crushes a styrofoam cup to a fraction of its size. the missing plane is believed to be 4500 meters, nearly 15,000 feet down. >> it's flat and the saidment is silt. >> reporter: this will test the limits of the bluefin 21. >> patience, people need to have patients. >> reporter: he says one mission takes 24 hours. four hours of scan is data from the ocean floor. >> you see the traces of the outlines of the objects. >> reporter: his team also took this video of what the next step, the salvage phase would look like. under water robots would pull

This is the peoples temple membership, now numbering in the hundreds in redwood valley, california, in the '70s. by then tim carter was already getting an early taste of how it would all end. >> we had a very small vineyard on the ranch in redwood valley. and they said, hey, grapes would come in from the ranch and they have wine, does anybody want some wine? and so each of us got this styrofoam cup filled with -- three-quarters filled with wine and drank the wine and like five minutes later, jones says, you've all been poisoned. you have an hour to live. >> it was a test for jim jones' trusted...