crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago an auv, an autonomous underwater vehicle, discovered the missing plane. coming up. having the right tool is always the best case that you re looking for. it makes the remis family of auvs, this is the ream is 600. a larger, the remis 6000 found the france flight. at the end of the day we knew what we were doing was to help people answer questions about what happened to that flight. so it s the bluefin 21 which is currently being used in the search for malaysia flight 370 can t find the missing jet, searchers could call upon the
right now the bluefin underwater drone is scouring the ocean floor for any sign of malaysia flight 370. the bluefin is on its eighth mission now. it s covered at least half of the current search zone. so far the bluefin has not found a shred of evidence linked to flight 370. with me is rhonda flores. is this the right tool for the job in. that s one of the big questions. we set out to find out why. we talked to the source. when these searchers asked the u.s. government for an auv, then the u.s. government looks at its fleet of auvs and figures out where is our deep sea auv and that s the bluefin 21. but there are other auvs that can dive much deeper. take a look. this world war ii era plane
remis 6000, it can navigate in waters almost 5,000 feet deeper than the bluefin 21. basically it can be operated in most of the world s oceans. when searchers asked the u.s. government for an auv, the navy says the bluefin 21 was the only deep water vehicle it had available. after the remis auvs, use side scan sonar to map the ocean floor, they usually come back with what s called low frequency images. these are pictures it took of the submerged plane in massachusetts. and this shows up as different from the surrounding area indicating that there s something on the bottom for us to go look at. but take a look at these images taken at a higher frequency. you can clearly see the body of the plane, the two wings. here s what it looked like in its glory days. these auvs also have still