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>> reporter: yeah, well, we're now about two hours away, less than two hours away from this scheduled departure of the "ocean shield," an australian ship that is normally used for humanitarian purposes but is being tooled with those high-tech tools from the navy for this search mission. after they take off from sterling air base here on garden island, which is western australia's biggest air base, they're going to be heading to rot nest island where they'll be conducting some tests, making sure this equipment works properly before they head out towards the indian ocean search area. it will take about three days to get there. the captain of the boat that we're on has been talking a lot about these pretty challenging weather conditions the ship could face. the water's only about 100 feet deep right here. out there, it's 14,000 feet deep and things can get really ugly in a hurry. >> some days it's really calm, but other days it's absolutely wild. that's why the air force can't fly sometimes and the visibility with the rain and that, you can't, just can't see anything. and if there's anything in the water, everything just looks white because the wind just

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