The House of Representatives unanimously passed last Feb. 16 a bill that will require that vehicles that are rebuilt from salvage or have undergone much damage but are rebuilt and
these hurricanes on the coast that are blowing salt water storm surge onto your car? that come play havoc with your engine. the key is to go as far inland as you can. get to the highest point as possible. as you re driving along the freeway, maintaining the speed limit or going below the speed limit. there ll be no rush, because you will be stuck in traffic. when it applies to salt, thing about salvage vehicles. harvey just went to 300,000 vehicles that will be lost. this could be up to 500,000. that is $5 million in lost automobiles insurance claims. jon: unfortunately again, the gasoline situation we are seen, people will run out i can i get to the gas station. they have to park it by the side of the road. what you do in that case? we are always telling people in an emergency situation like this, get that spare gas can get active fuel in the vehicle. keep it there and it emergency
have the capability. they ve done this before. reporter: retired navy captain chip mccord has been involved in at least 50 ocean salvage operations include twag 800 800 and swissair which crashed in 1998 off the coast of nova scotia. the vehicles are equipped are lights and cameras and are outfitted with sonar to skoutd for debris. they are steered by two operators on board the ship above who use instant feedback if the salvage vehicles cameras to direct the robotic arms. they can hover, they can move left right, forward and aft and go to what they need very carefully hover over a piece and pick it up if they need to. remember air france flight 447 which crashed in the atlantic ocean in 2009? two years later, an unmanned underwater vehicle found the debris field for that flight 13,000 feet beneath the surface.
the engines were pulled from the ocean floor. if it s small like that black boxes, you can put a little basket on the rov and the arms from the rov can pick it up and put in the the basket. but the remote underwater vehicles can only carry about 4,000 pounds so anything heavier, like a large piece of the fuselage will have to be attached to a cable and pulled to the surface by a crane on the ship. randi kaye cnn, new york. let s talk about the search for flight 8501 with sea operations specialist tim taylor also the president of tiburon subsea research, a company that specializes in rovs and auvs and underwater imagery. welcome back tim. the head of search and rescue says most of the passengers are probably still inside the plane strapped in their seats. how difficult will it be to get to those passengers? divers are going to probably be the choice tool of choice on this one once they low cot