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370, malaysia air. but this is a 2,000 square mile search area. it's bad weather, rescuers are going getting a few hours of search time a day. there's only a few weeks of battery light left in the black boxes. how rhysic icrealistic is it that the black boxes will be found? >> the flight recorder boxes, the pingers didn't function but the boxes were retrieved visually. that's still a possibility. but to put the 100 feet of water depth into perspective, if the aircraft was tilted up on its side the width of the wing was about 100 and something feet. so it's really not as deep as you might think...

We're very careful first to document that spot even with air france. i think we took about 150,000 still images high quality still aim js and mosaic them together so the investigators had a google eye view of the rec site and pick and choose what they want in the recovery. >> david merns, are there some you have to use robots for no matter how shallow the waters? >> no and robots are not really ideal for working in extremely shallow water. we're talking possibly 20 meters here and so some jobs they can do. but really in this sort of water depth, you know, divers would be able to do the entire ...

Then they have to go do the trajectory backwards to figure out where the actual plane did the splash down and where the main fuselage still is. the other thing they're going to deal with here, this is the debris. it's 80 degree water. it's no problem for the divers. the water depth in the region is right around 80 to 160 feet. for recreational divers that's the max limit considered a deep dive. for professional divers and the navy divers this is not a problem going down. once they find the plane they should be able to get into it quickly. >> hopefully it can happen sooner. immigration action...

Talk about any kind of aircraft helicopters reaching the location not only do we have ships on scene able to do it but the actual distance from the shore to this location is only about 99 miles from the nearest major hub up in here. that's really in strikable range. also beyond that and important to note is the water depth. air france when it went down they found debris after five six days but they didn't find the body the parts of the airplane for almost two years, but that was much much much deeper water. here the average depth is only 131 feet. where this wreckage has been found so far, it'...

They collected about 95% of the plane and recovered every victim even though the last one wasn't found for ten months. in these circumstances, the chances of getting it all together are pretty good. and the more they can collect all of this the more they can look to say, did something fail here did something fail here? what was the condition inside what's left of the cabin? did that indicate it hit hard or that it glided in and tore up on the water's surface? was there any effort for people to get out of the plane, were they alive after hitting the water? those things can be answered by collec...