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It a few more days in case something should happen and then begin the process of switching out from this towed pinger locater to the sonar mapping to begin the laborious process of mapping this area. logically they begin where they got the great two and a half hour pinging event because thats the strongest card they have in the deck. and theyll probably begin the search out from there and then the question becomes, how long do you keep this aerial search up? thats an open question. >> all right....

The lawn, start to scan the sea floor. >> and captain gurley, it seems that the battery is either dead or its dying. if they havent heard anything in five days, i mean, why wouldnt they already have made the decision either publicly or at least to send the bluefin into the water. >> well, the usaustralians have wanted to give every possible chance to pick up the ping. the next phase of the search, the slowest phase of the search, which is mowing the lawn, as rob said, at the ocean bottom. so any...

Up the chain of command. top officials make the announcements that we always hear and the techs simply go back to work with us still not knowing their names. fredricka? >> brian todd, thank you so much. seeing how ard due wous this work is, how much longer can they keep up the intensity? lets bring back our panel. rob, mary, van, how do you keep the searchers motivated and encouraging and fresh? i wonder, captain gurley, how do you keep them motivated? >> well, these are professionals and this i...

Resources. >> reporter: the many governments engaged in the search already own these assets, including ships and planes. one way to look at this, at least, as an extended high-stakes training exercise. joe johns, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> how will cost factor into the next stage of the search for flight 370? bring back our panel. mary schiavo, rob mccollum, captain bob gurley and bob francis, welcome back. there is reportedly a massive insurance policy on the malaysian airlines as well. we...

Others way, perhaps picking up each others acoustic signals and muddying the waters. you want one ship tows one pinger locator and try to keep it simple. >> captain gurley, ive been wondering this for a couple of days now. 26 countries involved. some of the most advanced nations in the world with militaries with lots of resources. australia, british, chinese, of course, the u.s. theres only one blue fin? i mean, im sure this company made more than one, sold more than one. where are the rest of t...

Certainly should be and will be an effort to keep the costs down, but i dont hopefully -- hopefully that will not get in the way of getting the investigation done as quickly as it can be. and finding the recorders. >> so, captain gurley, are you in agreement with that? that especially as it pertains to military assets involved, that while much of what they are doing is training, and now theyre in realtime exercises at this kind of, you know, its coupled, this search also becomes part of crystall...

"ocean shield." it increases the complexity greatly when you get more assets there. again, im confident that with where theyre looking at now with the pingers, and the locations where theyve heard the pingers, theyve got the area down small, and its tractable with the blue fin when they get it in the water. the nature of the types of operations are excruciatingly slow. its very slow, very deliberate. and this will be a test of everyones patience. >> okay, so on that note -- because its a very go...

Hundreds of miles away. >> so captain gurley, if they never find any debris, does it matter in the search for those black boxes? >> well, carol, i think its important to remember -- to look at the fact were really doing two searches now. theres the search that is proceeding on the ocean surface for any floating surface debris that may have -- still be there for still floating around and dispersed by the winds and currents. but the second search is on the ocean bottom. thats the real debris field...