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important part of finding wreckage. reporter: the names are intriguing but they have potential to accomplish is amazing. the orion, the triton xls, the dorado. they are aovs and rovs. a black box is not a problem at all for it to pick up in a basket and recover it. reporter: this is the triteton based in florida connected to a ship by an umbilical cord. then there s the aovs which are not connected. this is the orion run by the u.s. navy by a company called phoenix international. they paint a picture of what s on the bottom. then there is the rena 6000 also an aov. they ve had tremendous success locating the wreckage of air
difficult and it doesn t always go as you expect. there s also the question of how much information i mean do you give each little piece of information to a family member. smoke is spotted on an island according to a helicopter crew who sees it is reporting to local media, is that information that you immediately give to the families or do you wait to verify it? there are very few incidents where you don t have the plane, where you re spending days searching for them. they crash on land and you ve got the wreckage. but there aren t that many where you don t have the plane and you re in this vacuum of information. how significant is the fact that this airasia flight was flying at the lowest altitude of all the other planes that were in the region? just probably haven t learned about the information, what s ahead of it. how do you know if it s ahead of you is if the previous aircraft went through that area reported it. that s how you know? there s not radar equipment? there
for help with sonars it s going to take week maybe even a month or more to respond to that to get mobilized oen edd on a ship and get the ship out there. even if it s a shorter distance than the malaysian air issue from land it will take a while to mobilize. the first thing you ve got to know is where are you looking? where is that haystack? are you going to listen for pings? should you go out now with pinger locaters and go to the last position and try your luck? it s a very horrible situation that we find ourselves in once more that a plane s gone into the water without us knowing exactly where it is. i want to talk to david more about the challenges of underwater searchers. why not go out with pingers? we ll ask him that ahead. and the specialized equipment that it may take to find the wreckage. underwater vehicles can go where humans can, humans can t go
java sea between the islands of belitung and borneo. we re devastated by what has happened. we do not know what s happened here. reporter: indonesia is leading the search with help from malaysia singapore and australia, the united states has been asked to join the effort and will soon send assets to the region. so far there s little to go on no sign of the wreckage no signals from the plane to help pinpoint its location. the chief operation in this area and airplanes and helicopters operating, it is no issue of of course being operated in the sea especially in the bad weather like this but instructions to all our peoples do their best and fast and hoping this leads to finding