vehicles is increasing. but jimmy else in be says when looking for wreckage, manned submersibles offer an important dimension. you re saying sometimes having a human being able to look around can spot things an unmanned submersible cannot spot? correct. reporter: this submersible will not be going but others could soon be sent into action in the indian ocean, under water, in an effort to solve a mystery. gary tuchman, cnn, ft. pierce, florida. make sure you stay with cnn for the very latest on the search for missing flight 370 and go to cnn.com for that, as well as that ferry that sank with the students on board. i m don lemon. thank you so much for watching. i have a new co-anchor here, say hi, olivia. hi. how are you? you doing okay? yeah. anyways, there she is. thank you for joining me. she s here watching today with her mommy. that s it for me. thank you so much for watching. we ll get to cnn s wolf blitzer. it starts right now.
what s happening in syria, this massive war gone unchecked which fulfilled the prophesy so to speak. yes, they have been given the space to operate unchecked in syria. they re infect, again, iraq, they re traveling to places in north africa and somalia and elsewhere. plus, western recruits who are going over to syria are now western intelligence agencies incredibly afraid these people are going to come back with the al qaeda mission, the al qaeda banner, to target, whether it be britain, whether it be the united states or other countries. christiane amanpour, i m sure you ll be on top of this, appreciate you, thank you for coming on. this search for this people on board this ferry, hundreds of people, we ve just received some brand-new video from inside this sinking ship. we re going to show you that after this break. plus, we re going to update you on the latest for the search for the missing just ahead.
still on the ferry but the ferry was already sinking. some of the students were not able to escape. the ferry started to list so we asked if we should escape now but the announcement kept telling us to stay still. i m so worried about the other students. let s try to figure out how this could happen. meteorologist jennifer gray at the cnn center in atlanta and jerry, a technical consultant for products safety and water rescue. first, andrew, i want to start with you. what is the latest on the search for these missing passengers? the latest on the search is as we speak the search is being resumed. it was halted for two or three hours in the hours of darkness. for reasons of which are unclear to us. they seem to be recalibrating the search. now they should be up and fully under way. under the light of parachute flairs so this will be happening right now in the cold waters where ship went down at 9:00 a.m. this morning.
feet, expected to jump up to about 12 feet as we get into the next 1 to 2 days. so, don, very important they get the search under way very, very quickly. jerry, question for you, you heard jennifer mention the water temperatures. how long can one survive in 50 degree water? 50 to 60 degree water, you have a survival time of up to about six hours. within one to two hours, however, you re going to become exhausted. that s why it s absolutely critical you have a life jacket on. most probably everyone on that vessel had a life jacket. if you have a life jacket on, what if you re inside the ship? what about the people on the inside of this ship? there is a possibility that there could be air pockets or air bubbles and people are in those now? absolutely. there s a possibility of air pockets so people can be can be breathing. the other issue is whether or not they re exposed to the cold
the johnson sea ling submersible as it s known. it s now retired at this oceanographic institution. ready to go. reporter: but other manned sea vehicled might be next in line to aid in the malaysia airline search. if this submersible or another submersible can get to where the wreckage is, how effective do you think it can be? very effective. reporter: this is a view of this submersible in the atlantic ocean. it can go 3,000 feet deep. like all research subs, it is slow. it travels one mile per hour when searching. the sub was called to duty after the space shuttle challenger exploded and it recovered some wreckage from the shuttle. we have the ability to lift weight to the surface. reporter: a tool called the manipulator does the important work of grabbing, scooping and