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Great, conditions on the water not great, a little bit hazy, a little bit choppy. the general went out there, we're told to the "uss sampson the destroyer, to meet with american officials, thank them for their efforts, and also visited an indonesian ship. we have some pictures of him meeting with the captain of the "uss sampson" captain foley. ana, this is really an international effort. we're going into day 11 of the search the united states the "uss sampson "uss ft. worth" along with a lot of other countries, singapore, malaysia japan, south korea, all involved in search and recovery effort....

We don't know what weather information, what weather data the crew didn't see and how relevant that is to what happened. >> the airline says the pilots got the documents electronically. but since the crash, indonesia now requires pilots to do face to face briefing with flight operations officers about conditions on the flight path. more than 40 vessels, 20 helicopters, and 97 divers are deployed to the search zone. >> the uss ft. worth detected sonar of two metal objects but we need to confirm if this is part of the plane. >> one object about 56 feet long. the other, 14 feet. elsewhere, a life...

Be a huge problem. officials came out earlier saying that if the plane is stuck in that mud it is going to be cause huge problems and really delay the recovery efforts, they're going to have to bring in extra equipment. the "uss ft. worth" was called in to assist. they brought in special pieces of sonar equipment to help map the ocean floor and trying to get a sense as to where this debris is. it's believed or it's hoped that the majority of the bodies will be with the wreckage. three bodies were found an hour ago taking the number to 37 that have since been retrieved. only 9 have been identif...

And oceanographer david gallagher and timothy taylor and oceanographer eric van sebil. taylors from the "uss ft. worth" began to search the wreckage site. how does the technology work? >> the sonar -- it's side scan sewn sonar that will make a topographical map of the bottom with objects that you can then identify as possible targets and then go down and look at them a little bit closer with the higher frequency. >> david, is this the best technology to use in this particular setting? >> yes, wolf it is. i'm just not sure what they're using and know some sonars can even find a golf ball. in ot...

Item the one that was 18 meters in length is now believed to have actually been a shipwreck, so those four items that they were working with they believe they are part of this flight 8501 and they've expanded the search area to up to 45,000 square kilometers when you think about it it is an enormous area they are combing and scouring through but certainly the indonesians have called upon the united states to help them. it is now an international search and recovery effort but call on the "uss ft. worth" using the tow fish sonar equipment to say whether they can pick up other pieces of debris. ...