epa04167658 An undated handout picture made available by the Australian Department of Defense (DOD) on 15 April 2014 shows the Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Artemis in the water after being craned over the side of the Australian Defense Vessel (ADV) Ocean Shield in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at sea in the Indian Ocean. The AUV Bluefin-21 has been deployed in the Indian Ocean search for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370, officials said on 14 April 2014. The Bluefin-21 is fitted with either sonar or a camera and can stay below for anything up to 20 hours at a stretch as it scans the ocean floor for irregularities. It has no capacity to retrieve anything from the ocean floor. The switch in tactics by the multinational forces comes six days after the last signal was picked up by the device the Ocean Shield is towing. 'We haven't had a single detection in six days, so I guess it's time to go under water,' Australian search leader Angus Houston told
PERTH: The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 faced a second technical issue since its maiden underwater mission to search for the whereabouts of missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), which oversees the search operation, said the unmanned vehicle was brought up again early into its 13th mission on Friday due to a software issue that required resetting.
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