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>> roy, the bluefin-21 is not the only autonomous underwater vehicle. we know there's a remis, o'ryan. do you think the bluefin was the right one to begin with? >> yes, it was the one that was immediately available. it's run by u.s. navy contractors and it's a fly away system. it was able to be on site fairly quickly. there are other assets, the lemis is an auv that can search to the south or east and west a bit. i think this should bring other assets in also. towed systems assigned assets to a certain area and broaden the search and come up with results

Learning anything useful? >> i think they're learning a whole bunch of things. the first is we're ill equipped for this type of a disaster. you know, we'll start with the pingers. the pingers on the air frame are really designed to find things in shallow water. find the black box. not the airplane. and going down in deep water, we really need some other type of device on the plane. some other type of probably more like a transponder that lasts a long time so that they can search. it also teaches us a little bit about the search methodology when we're using underwater vehicles or other type of ...