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The mystery. as the ocean shield accelerates, our captain spots another boat flashing an s.o.s. call. >> and we had to give up following the ocean shield because it could be risk of life. >> reporter: the boat carrying another network's news crew blew its engine drifting into potential danger. we towed them to safety and dropped anchor for the night. after sunrise, we learned the ocean shield was sailing into very rough weather, just 12 miles from shore we were getting tossed around. believe it or not this would be considered a clear day. farther out our captain says waves can get so big they ...

Fraction of how far the "ocean shield" is right now, because they've been sailing for about 20 hours, about a third of the way to the search zone, but just 12 miles out on a clear, calm day, take a look at how the captain described the weather conditions that we were feeling. >> i feel sorry for the guys on the "shield" heading out to the wreck zone, because we're at idle. we're running along about 5 knots. those guys are punching upwards of 15 knots, so every wave is straight over the top. >> reporter: even for a large ship like the "ocean shield." >> large ship, it will just be over the top ...

Can be pretty tough because of rough seas. will ripley is shadowing the ship. he gives us a sense of what it's like to be out in the middle of the indian ocean. >> we have moved about 12 miles offshore here in the indian ocean to give you a sense of what the weather conditions can be like. and believe it or not, this is considered a clear day. we have swells. we have waves. you have to hold on to something on the boat just to stay standing. captain ray ruby -- i can't believe that this is a clear day. >> yeah, well you saw it was like glass. this is just a normal day. i feel sorry for the guys...

The last two days. the search on the water, sad to report, hasn't been a whole lot better. in fact, cnn's will ripley hung on for dear life, might be the best way to describe it, so he could show you from the water the extremely rough seas and what those searchers are dealing with in the southern indian ocean. >> reporter: we have moved about 12 miles off shore here in the indian ocean to give a sense of what the weather conditions can be like. and believe it or not, this is considered a clear day. we have swells, we have waves. you have to hold on to something on the boat just to stay standin...

Wanted to see for ourselves what the weather conditions are like. and before i tell you how we were thrown around, because we were thrown around quite a bit on the boat, this was a clear day here. the conditions were considered calm. but you can see from the video just how not calm it was. >> i feel sorry for the guys on the "shield" heading out to the wreck zone because we're at idle. we're running along about 5 knots. those guys are punching this at 15 knots, so every wave is straight over the top. >> reporter: even for a large ship like the "ocean shield"? >> large ship, it will just be ove...