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It certainly would be of great assistance to get divers down there, of course safely. absolutely. >> mm-hmm. okay. and then what other kinds of technology doctor, do you think will likely be introduced to this area? >> it's almost certain that autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles will be used in this. the nice thing about those types of systems is it keeps the divers out of the water until they really are needed. you know the risk goes up for personnel, and the complexity and time lines stretch out, as you put people in the water. they'll probably be using some type of...

The critical black boxes from airasia flight 8501. the bat eye ares are designed to last a month but in some cases can actually last longer. they will fade out, not abruptly before they shut off. joining me now is the vice president of teledyne systems. good to see you. are you confident, 23 days life typical battery life of those pingers, are you confident that those searchers will find the black boxes well before that time? >> well there are a couple of things going on. i'm quite confident for a couple reasons. first of all, they have a relatively small search area to localize the tail secti...

Even put that on the divers by the divers close by a section. or remotely operated equipment. once you have that you can put those in had to find them. >> and we're looking at a graphic, we're seeing the submersible which would be scanning the southeast floor.ocean floor. how would that assist in better locating or getting a better view of those submerged. >> the sonar, most likely the side scanners on the navy vessels are lower frequency. which means they give a grainy resolution. you're not seeing specifics about the tail section. the sonars that are on the underwater autonomous vehicles tha...

>> well we have word from local reports over in indonesia that parts of the tail were found. of course, that's where the black boxes are. so that should give us all hope right, thomas? >> well yeah this is a relatively shallow water recovery or search-and-recovery. and given that it's that finding the pieces is going to happen. this is not like mh-370. the tail section is the critical section. if they found those pieces, the time it will take femme more tome able to get to the black boxes should be pretty rapid. >> mary i wanted to ask you about this. take a look at these pictures. these photo...

Is hampering the search for flight 8501's flight data recorders. we know they contain valuable information. >> here are a few things you need to know about black boxes. first of all, as we said about 10,000 types they are not black, they are orange. they are located in the tail section of an airbus a-320. they store about 25 hours of information about the plane's altitude air speed, engine performance, other data. then there's the cockpit voice recorder. it has two hours of interaction with air traffic control. david, you have worked with these black boxes and you're author of a new book "mala...