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Pings should stop, you know, if the batteries are dying, and theyre about to die out, we do have the coordinates. they have the latitude and longitude of where this was, and i think at this point giving these soundings, gish given thay have this information, they can use side scale sonar and other methods and will certainly map the ocean floor, at least in this area. so they is have this to go on. if these pings turn out to be nothing, and i imagine that the search will go on another 10 or 15 da...

Precise location was. like we did have eventually with the air france crash. >> it is it possible you could take an image from a satellite from the day the plane went down and layer that exact those exact coordinates over each other almost creating one of those books you had as a kid, you would flip it over and see something move across the screen. >> that is a great question. i call it a time machine. >> youre starting to see the patterns that emerge and with that kind of knowledge, you have in...

Why didnt we put these coordinates together in the beginning, why is that? >> well, sean, there is not actual data as to where the plane really went. the last known point of contact was way up there on its way to beijing, northeast of malaysia. and then they kind of went with, okay, well, we think they had it on radar headed west. based on this so-called satellite handshake, the plane may have landed down here, now lets try to calculate where it may have run out of fuel. >> now, this is the late...

Today, they get the coordinates of that, they can go through their computer modeling and track it right back to its original spot the bit of debris was on march 8th. and theyll send the ocean shield right to those coordinates, and it can launch its pinger. and if necessary, the autonomous underwater vehicle as well. so we have got excellent data on the currents, the eddies in the area. its just a matter of confirming one piece of debris, and then we can go straight to the wreckage. >> all right....

Previous mystery items that we have seen. why is that? >> well, if the orange objects are identified as from mh 370, then the university of western australia tracks all the current data, all of these -- where this area is large eddies in that area. and they can then track back to march 8th and tell the searchers exactly where that bit of debris came from. if they have the exact location of where it is picked up, on the exact day, they can track it back to where they came from on march the 8th. a...

Geoffrey, to you first. you say the orange objects may be easier to locate again than previous mystery items that we have seen. why is that? >> well, if the orange objects are identified as from mh 370, then the university of western australia tracks all the current data, all of these -- where this area is large eddies in that area. and they can then track back to march 8th and tell the searchers exactly where that bit of debris came from. if they have the exact location of where it is picked up...

Of that, they can go through their computer modeling and track it right back to its original spot the bit of debris was on march 8th. and theyll send the ocean shield right to those coordinates, and it can launch its pinger. and if necessary, the autonomous underwater vehicle as well. so we have got excellent data on the currents, the eddies in the area. its just a matter of confirming one piece of debris, and then we can go straight to the wreckage. >> all right. stand by, everyone. were here f...

Searching, searching for something tangible to help bring closure to the families of the 239 people. closure they clearly dont have right now. >> and then will, help us understand. its one thing for planes or search teams to spot -- think they locate some suspicious items such as these four latest items. its another thing to actually try to retrieve them. things move. and that seems to be the big problem, is it not? especially in the case of now trying to look for, again, those four items and re...

It is unchartered territory in many ways. even, you noknow, some of the areas of the ocean uncharted, unmapped. by all accounts a pretty unusual investigation. its had his problems. beyond the discovery of black boxes and some confirmed debris, what would you like to see happen next in this investigation? if you can assess that? >> well, actually, next or i hope its going on right now, i think they need to keep refining that data. if we arent finding wreckage at this location, its got to be out ...

Visibility, you cant search if you cant see through the clouds. that is what the pilots and the ship crews are up against today. >> lets talk about what everybody is waiting to hear about, the objects retrieved from the ocean. do we know anything about them? >> we foe that two ships yesterday retrieved objects that they pulled from the ocean, a ship from china and australia, and those objects are sitting on the vessels right now waiting to be examined. and what is going to happen here is that pl...