went down the search will go much deeper underwater. this is one piece of equipment that will help in the undersea search. reporter: this device dives into the ocean several miles, and it creates a map of the ocean floor. it s called an auv, an autonomous underwater vehicle, and it uses side-scan sonar. you can see it right here, to create that picture. it s also equipped with a gps system. you can see it right over here and, of course, that let s the crew know where this probe is at any point in time. now, let s go ahead and start launching. this probe is owned by cnc technologies, it is highly customized, and hear this it has been used before to identify and help recover plane wreckage in other parts of the world. so in the case of mh-370, what a probe like this would be able to do is, it would be able to narrow the debris feld, help narrow the search which, of
probe that dives into the motion, wolf, and gives a map of the ocean floor. this is what it s called, an auv, or autonomous under water vehicle. and it uses s.o.n.a.r. you can see it down here to create that picture. it also has gps, because it s important for the crew to know exactly where this piece of equipment is at all times. the gps is on this it antenna. i ll ask brian to start launching this for us. we re going to give you a demonstration as to what this would look like in the real world. now this probe is owned by cnc technologies. it is in golden meadow, louisiana, it is highly customized and it s on the miss ginger today. one thing to point out, it has in the past helped identify and recover plane wreckage in the deep sea. now, what we re going to demonstrate here is on a dock. so what you see is this probe is
it works once it gets deployed. so what happens is it gets deployed into the water. it goes several miles deep, and you re going to see that it floats. so at that point a team in the control room would program a mission for this particular probe and then it would take off. and it would immediately start sending data back to the control room that would give experts an idea of what s on the ocean floor. and you know, brooke, time is of the essence here. as soon as that search area is narrowed, one of these probes could be the first eyes on the wreckage scene. brooke? as we look at this, this is pretty cool to see live, is this something that s listening for pings of the boxes, is it taking pictures? what happens when the juice on the boxes die? reporter: well, this piece of equipment is highly customized by cnc technologies.
it uses side skin sonar. and it has sensors all around the body of this probe so it can avoid obstacles. it has a gps system, it is important to know where this piece of equipment is at all times. i am going to show you how this works. i am going to ask brian to start launching for us. this probe is owned by cnc technologies. we are on the miss ginger in golden meadow, louisiana. it is important to note that this particular probe has been used in the deep sea to find plane wreckage before. now, we re going to show you here a demonstration of how this piece of equipment is deployed into the water. normally it is out in the deep sea, it is out into the ocean, so it is not tethered. we are tethered today only because this is a demonstration, and we are on the dock. but i m going to show you, brooke, how this happens and how
system. let s go ahead and start launching this. and this is owned by cnc technologies. it s highly customized. and hear this. it has been used in the past to identify and recover, help recover airplane wreckage. and erin, in the case of mh 370, this would help narrow the search of that debris field. what exactly is it going to be looking for when it goes under that incredibly those rough seas if this was actually used for mh 370? what would it be looking for? what you re looking at right now, it s getting deployed into the water. into the case of mh 370, it would be in the indian ocean and it would go down several miles. so what it s looking for is it s looking for oddities, anything on the ocean floor that looks strange, anything that looks like a debris field from an airplane wreckage, for example. and so it s completely unmanned. so there ever people in the