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With this. in a best case scenario, he says, with although support equipment, which is literally housed in trailers like a tractor-trailer rig, you would have to fly all of that to perth. you would put it on the ship and then get the ship out to the location, out on the water three, four day trip. by the way, you have to weld is all down to the ship itself, and before you can even begin putting it off to the side of the ship and into the water, youre talking about ten days to two weeks at the fa...

What else could it possibly be? >> well, angus houston did not have an a answer for had that question. the ocean, the depths that we are talking about is about three miles deep, which is extremely deep, when we are talking about deep ocean waters, sound travels in an inconsistent and funny way. they are being cautious, they want to see signs of wreckage, especially considering the hopes and thoughts of the relativess and families and friends of those missing on board the plane. >> all right, it ...

The bottom, 16 hours to scan, and then two hours back up. nothing happens quickly in the deep ocean, so its going to be a matter of time and as you guys mentioned, those black box batteries could actually run out at any second. >> thanks to will ripley and we heard from commander marks this morning, and we got the sense that he was worried they could run out as theyre searching for it right now. as theyre pinging, that the black box could run out of power. >> lets talk about all the developments...

Explain. >> yes. your last commentator mentioned it. the devices that the chinese were using were devices that you would use perhaps for something which is roughly 400 meters or so beneath the surface and they are quite simple in the way that they are constructed. so the chinese were probably receiving a great deal of noise. the ocean creates a lot of noise and the 37.5 kilohertz signal could easily be lost in that and you could easily misinterpret that signal. the device used on the "ocean shie...

That we are very close to where we need to be. and it just so happens that pings are the very reason why. since friday, australias ocean shield vessel and a chinese ship have picked up pings, albeit, 370 miles apart. the chinese team heard fleeting pings on friday and saturday, but they were using some gear that is not particularly designed for deep ocean searches. the australians, however, are using gear from the u.s. navy, particularly designed for the kind of search that were in at this point...

83,000 square miles that is roughly the size of utah. i want to take you under the surface. you need to be careful with this. there are a few things we do know. we do know there is a broken ridge and a plateau. you can see 10,000 to 16,000 feet is what we are looking at. where the ping was detected we are thinking it is almost 15,000 below the oceans surface and it could go down to 20,000 feet. anywhere from 5 to 10,000 feet. the indian ocean a very, very deep ocean. look at this. this is the ei...

At least that location in a matter of hours and what were talking about hundreds of miles, these ships cant move that quickly. what are the other ways or could they? are you about to correct me? >> no, no, thats part of the problem. and maybe submarines can get there. they can move fairly quickly underwater. we dont know what technology is onboard that chinese patrol boat. they are very capable, oceanographers. they are moving quickly in lead in terms of the globe, in terms of studying the deep ...

Fish, they all make sounds. >> reporter: the device can pick up the pinger sounds in depthing ranging from 50,000 feet from two miles away. heres why its so critical to get that towed pinger locater down in the deep ocean. the block box can get stuck is in something called a deep sound channel. if the sound does get trapped there and bounces around, the only way to pick it up may be through one of these pinger locater devices. >> sending the towed pinger down there, the tpl, will put you in that...

It gets it down into that level. it also gets it away from a lot of the surface not. wind on the water creates noise, propellers, dolphins, animals, fish, they all make sounds. >> reporter: the device can pick up the pinger sounds in depths ranging from 50,000 feet from two miles away. heres why its so critical to get that towed pinger locater down in the deep ocean. the block box can get stuck in something called a deep sound channel. about the 2,000 to 4,000 feet below the surface. if the soun...

Get that towed pinger locater down in the deep ocean. the block box can get stuck in something called a deep sound channel. about the 2,000 to 4,000 feet below the surface. if the sound does get trapped there and bounces around, the only way to pick it up may be through one of these pinger locater devices. >> sending the towed pinger down there, the tpl, will put you in that channel so they can hear that echoing or ricocheting sound. when it picks up the sound its in real time sent up the cable ...