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This one could lay the first eyes on the wreckage site of mh-370. >> the wreckage can tell you how it impacted or how it came apart. it can certainly tell you if certain parts were burned. it can tell you a very complete story. >> metal arms and jaws are controlled by a joy stick. >> it's a black box, not a problem at all to pick it up, put it in a basket and recover it back to the vessel. >> reporter: but before the data recorders are recovered, the wreckage must be located, task as daunting as the indian ocean is deep. >> so we're learning about all this technology. it's like this virtual al...

Water any longer? let's just concentrate our efforts under water. >> i don't believe they will do that, having worked on teams like this. you still have to make visual contact. they know they have seen it. they have been trying to track it. they have been battling weather. they are still going to go out and try and make a visual identification of the debris they have spotted. once they do that, they will identify it and then they will map out a grid pattern. they will start searching in a particular area where they will be able to deploy this pinger locator, the tpl-25, which can reach a maxim...

Tpl. it's not necessary yet, but when it is called for, all eyes and ears will be focused on this. this dragon fly looking mechanism. this is the tpl 25. this is the piece of machinery that is absolutely crucial in finding the thing that could answer why flight 370 went down. the flight data recorder, or the black box. tpl stands for toad pinger locater, and the ship does exactly that, too. it tows it along at really slow speeds as it's listening for the clicks, those pings from the black box. we talk so much about pings. this is the noise this tpl is listening for. >> okay, so you get that. t...

Systems that it needs to be utilized, which would be the cable and the crane that would put on the ship, and allow you to tow it behind any ship of opportunity. and i understand they already have a ship designated that they would place it on. and then that ship needs to go from perth out to the search area, which will take a little bit of time to get out to where we want it to. so we need to still find the debris and then backtrack that debris to where we think the aircraft has entered the water before we ever put this tpl in the water, because as you said, you tow this twice at very slow spee...

Of the plane debris so they can deploy this tpl. here's my next question. we talked so much about this part of the world and the indian ocean several miles deep. i had an oceanographer talk about the highly technical term, the ooze on the ocean floor. so i can only imagine as this black box is made of aluminum, it could be under ooze, which would make the ping even fainter, correct? >> yes. in most cases, the ping can still be heard, but in some cases, the pinger has been destroyed in the crash. i believe that happened in the air france case, the pinger was destroyed and they did not pick up a...