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To stay in tuch via short text messages. once the sub reaches the bottom people have four hours to survey the ship wreck followed by two hours back to the surface. we know the mission did not go as planned. on sunday the titan lost all communication with the surface ship. it's not clear what depth the titan had reached. let's look at what is inside this submersible. it's 22 feet long, roughly the size of a mini van so it can hold up to five people. you see them in there. the vessel is made of carbon fiber and titanium to withstand pressure at those depths. there is a small toilet but there are...

And then metallic sounds. this was under the underwater telephone. somebody on thresher thought it might be useful to notify the surface ship that they were having trouble. so i am very intrigued, and there must be some record what the last communication was between the mother ship and titan. >> sandra: coming off yesterday when there was a glimmer of hope when the sounds were reported and that was thought to maybe, and by some chance be the crew on board trying to alert where they were. now reports of this debris field. if in the case, brad, they are not able to determine that that debris is ...

Losing power, power going off? certainly they lost the power that enabled them to communicate with the surface ship that was supporting them. and the communication systems went down, there are two primary ones, navigation system, because officially there is no gps once you get into the water. the radio signals from satellites don't penetrate the water, so what you haveis penetrate the water, so what you have is an acoustic system the shipping is the sub, so the ship has got gps so it knows where it is and it knows where the sub is relative to its commander so it can direct the sub and so you n...

Complex mission to recover the craft and those onboard. there are very few assets in the entire world that can reach more than 12,000 feet below sea level where the titanic lies and even those that can, they can only travel about a thousand feet per hour which means it could take 12 hours to reach the titanic if it's at the bottom. let's take a look at those machines which are called remotely operated vehicles or rovs. this is one that we know has been deployed to the search site now and rovs are about the size of a cargo van and they're tethered to a surface ship with a two-inch thick cable w...

That. the good news is that the technology to do that, and the techniques and the talent to do that is all there. and if anyone can get that done, that group, if things fall in the right place, can do that. >> and of course, as you mention, the hardest part right now is finding the sub. how do rescuers locate a small submersible like this in such deep and expensive waters? >> it's very different from something like air, france are laden air, in that the surface ship should have a pretty good idea of where the subways last known. it's last known position. a sublime go very far, if it's gotten i...