into small modular people and rapidly shipped around the world. earlier this year, the blue fin 21 spent three weeks searching for malaysia airlines flight an 11 million dollar effort. now a recovery effort bluefin could help with is under way. would your vehicle with good to use in the airasia crash? it can be employed in that if need be our vehicles could map a debris field and help collect faster response time. the wreckage of flight 8501 has been found but the debris could be scattered across the ocean floor. it s the type of mission that s helped increase bluefin s business by 15% this year. and in the case of the airasia plane, their auvs could once again been o on the front line.
and then help provide faster response time for collecting things like flagt data recorders. reporter: the wreckage of flight 8501 has been found. but the debris could be scattered across the ocean floor. it s the type of mission that s helped increase bluefin s business by 15% this year. in the case of the air asia plane their auvs could once again be on the front line. they often spend 25 hours under water searching for a plane. and cost half a million to $5 million. when you think about it it s not that much money. ship time is tens of thousands of dollars a day to hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. auvs help make ship time more efficient so by that you can actually recoup ship time by using vebs. reporter: when the bluefin is in the water an operator on board the ship will program its search path. from there it s on its own. up to 5,000 meters it uses sound