titan and and our own richard quest. that is understand, the pressure of a cadillac on a thumbnail. not only the pressure, but it s the mechanism by which it has to do it. untethered, down below, it s untethered, it s down blow. it s slow. it has to bring its pictures back up again. it then has to be analyzed. so you don t really embark on something like this until you re really ready. you don t think oh, we ll lower the bluefin today to see what s down there. you can t just go down and look around and come back up. bob, what:00 the what this means? we ve got video of the wreckage of the titanic when you went down there and used these kinds of vehicles, went down there yourself that was 12,500 feet down. about what we re look at now. but when you went down, how much did you know what the ocean floor would look like down there, or were you, similar to this kind of situation, kind of going down not knowing what the
able to return on course and do another sweep, that s when we lost it. commander, good luck today. i think so many americans are so proud of our navy out there. i know it s long hours for you guys and you are work 24/7 and you make the american people very very proud. thank you, sir. thank you so much. i m proud of them, too. detecting the pings is only the first step as search crews manage to pick up those sounds again, and that would be huge. step two would be launching a mini submarine called the blue fin 21. what does the blue fin do. kelly is the president of blue fin robotics. he joins us. good evening, sir, and can you tell us what the blue fin does. good evening, greta, what the blue fin 21 underwater vehicle that isson the ship does is it will dive down in the ocean, it s about 3.5 miles deep. the pressure there is about the weight of a cadillac escalate balanced on your thumbnail. in the pitch darkness it
do we release this information to have everybody wound up and spooled up only to let them down. that is the big concern of running the roller coaster for the families a and that is the hard part. and greg, a quick thumbnail now that they believe there may be legitimacy to the pings and the way they have triangulated them? well, i believe they are going to have to go down to the station, and stay there probably with the pinger locator and try to see if they can find anything for the next several days. it may be that the batteries, because of the life of the batteries is now depleted, they may still have a faint ping and try to exhaust that, but then they have to get side scan sonar in there and start to map the area. that is going to the take days if not weeks, because it is a large area to try to map with the side scan sonar. and greg fife, always good to have you on the program. thank you. you are welcome. it is the hottest ticket in austin, texas, 9,000 to apply for 1,000 s
long it will last. there s a possibility it will be out there for more days, we just don t know. and at what point, david, would they just because i felt as though they said all along we re not putting any of this in the water until we find debris. they did that anyway. effectively, they say, we re not going to put the auvs in the water until we narrow the search. might they do that anyway? that s a question better left to the people running the mission. can they do the job? but the vehicle can we re talking about operating at depths of 2 1/2 miles down. the pressure there is equivalent to having a cadillac escalade balanced on your thumb nail. the vehicle can survey 40 square miles a day. it can detect objects about a meter in size. with experts, they can determine objects of interest. if all we had to go on because this is day 31 and those batteries are not going to last forever if all we had to go on is what we had now, that two hour line of listening, the return and t
you are correct, we were able to return on course and do another sweep, that s when we lost it. commander, good luck today. i think so many americans are so proud of our navy out there. i know it s long hours for you guys and you are work 24/7 and you make the american people very very proud. thank you, sir. thank you so much. i m proud of them, too. detecting the pings is only the first step as search crews manage to pick up those sounds again, and that would be huge. step two would be launching a mini submarine called the blue fin 21. what does the blue fin do. kelly is the president of blue fin robotics. he joins us. good evening, sir, and can you tell us what the blue fin does. good evening, greta, what the blue fin 21 underwater vehicle that isson the ship does is it will dive down in the ocean, it s about 3.5 miles deep. the pressure there is about the weight of a cadillac escalate balanced on your thumbnail. in the pitch darkness it