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This is 4,000, 4,5000 deep. >> almost three miles. >> exactly. so i think to sort of suggest well, they havent found it in nine searches. it must all be wrong. lets head off home. i think thats simply not realistic. and it doesnt adapt common sense. >> so jeff, what is your take on this? look, thats a fair point. air france on the flight 447, they had debris and it still took them years to find the plane. they didnt have pings, so it can be very difficult. they have indicated once theyre done se...

Miles and telling a pinger locater two and a half miles down, you have to be within a couple of miles in order to locate it. the question is the wreck near the pinger locater? certainly the box is there. so yeah, i think we are within a couple of miles, the 2 1/2 hour transmission they received is seems like good news in terms of trying to locate this thing. >> lets talk about flight 447, a similar air incident. look at two pictures from air france 447. this is a look at the debris field. this i...

The search for flight 370 has put a spotlight on all of the garbage floating in the worlds oceans. while that trash has impacted the search with initially promising leads turning in to disappointing dead ends it may have more significance consequences. the story from cnns stephanie elam. >> our oceans are littered in trash. its unfortunate it has taken this human tragedy to highlight it. >> reporter: as search teams scour the ocean for debris from flight 370 the world is getting a look at the tr...

The north atlantic. thank you for joining us. do you think that investigators are going about the search for flight 370 in the right manner? >> thank you for inviting me, don. first of all, yes, i think so. "titanic" did not have a ping er on it that we could listen and be guaranteed within a few miles of the wreck in order to know where it was. and given the fact this is a standard search procedure that the u.s. navy uses for its military planes and things like that, i really cant see any other...

Look at the black box information, they have already said they cant do it. so that leaves four nations that can. they probably will have all four help, australia, u.k., france and the united states. so if it is a transparent investigation and truly -- what they call the open-party system meaning boeing, malaysian air is a party and the government helps in the search for the black boxes will be parties. as long as it is transparent and open you can have some trust in the system. you know, thats w...

Evidence theres been reported over the last few days. well have to wait and see and i will be waiting and seeing. >> all right. stick with me, everyone. when we come back, a legendary ocean mystery. the "titanic" sank exactly 102 years ago today. what did scientists learn in the search for that great ship and how can those lessons be aflied to the search for flight 370? life with crohns disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of "what ifs". what if my abdominal pain and cramps come back?

Underway. helicopters are in the area. they have other ships in the area as well trying to pick up the people in the water. they say it is ten degrees centigrade so they can survive least one hour in this water. it is springtime and the water is not that warm. they want to get to the people quickly as they can. as far as we know hundreds of these passengers were students. they were high school students. they were on their way to jeju island. >> 450 people sinking off the southwestern coast. as s...

From each other. a pinger data point is different than an oil slick is different than an inmarsat signal and they all have different -- contribute different parts of the answer. certainly well be very curious to know if they can identify this oil as being possibly from an airplane. that will be nice to know. one thing you mentioned in comparing the time it takes to do this would be the air france flight 447. i want to mention that there were actually three autonomous vehicles used in that search...

Mosaic of the ocean floor at those depths. it essentially acts as an underwater drone. it can go around and take high-resolution pictures as well as a side scan sonar image of the ocean floor at these depths. what you heard angus houston say is that this the last hope of finding out what is down there. the towed pinger locator has done all that it can do. this is the next logical step and this is what they are doing with it and this does have a lot of good capability but this is something that t...

Monitoring the frequencies and the repetition rate. theyre highly trained to be disciplined and discriminate, to block out any other sounds. paul nelson who worked the search for flight 447, describes it as tedious and time devouring. >> the first crew works midnight to noon, the next crew works noon to midnight. you monitor the weather, youre watching what is coming as far as weather. you monitor the seas. and youre sitting in front of this screen hoping and praying that youre going to hear som...