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Much easier to do a visual search if youve got good weather and flat seas. >> in terms of the underwater search, exactly which equipment is going to be deployed today? >> the towed pinger has been deployed today on ocean shield. the search is currently ongoing, and of course, its not just ocean shield thats doing the search with the towed pinger, but hms echo, the british oceanographic ship, which is coming on a converging course, and it has good equipment for finding things on the floor of the ...

That and come back at a later stage. >> not even how much australia is spending? >> i think at a future conference i might be able to give you some indicator of how much -- [ inaudible ] >> do you think there could be more towed pinger locaters that can go under water? >> weve got the towed pinger on the australian vessel. but hms echo, the british ship, also has some fairly sophisticated underwater search gear. and weve got a couple other devices that can assist with the search.

Luck. thats the hunt for flight 370 one month in. overnight the search dramatically changed, moving under water off the west coast of australia. >> that area is being pinged because -- picked because on the basis of the analysis and on the six hours of pings we have the exchange between the satellites, the inmarsat state and the aircraft. >> two ships the australian "ocean shield" and the british "hms echo" are scanning a track of deep blue sea around the clock inching along at about two to thre...

Sophisticated, high-tech equipment. but the devices are designed to be used once a debris field is located and is the search area is dramatically narrowed down. brian todd is here with more on this part of the story. so obviously, there are great limits to what this high-tech underwater equipment can do since theyre not even sure theyre looking in the right place. >> thats right, wolf. this equipment is very impressive. this towed pinger locater can go 20,000 feet below the surface, can detect t...

Ships, including a british vessel that will be conducting whats being called a specific search. also expected to reach the search zone soon, an australian ship thats equipped with u.s. technology to listen for pings from the black boxes. were also hearing there will be a news conference in the coming hours from the man who is heading up the search effort. kyung lah joins us now with the latest on australia. here we are 28 days into this. whats the latest on todays search effort? >> reporter: tod...

Now, then youre into a very different scenario. im not saying thats what happened, but the lack of debris on the surface either means they are completely in the wrong area or the plane entered the water and remained substantially intact. >> if that happened, van, if theres a plane at the bottom 20,000 feet under sea level, lets say right now, how difficult would it be to find? thats a pretty big object. >> it is a big object and the types of equipment theyre bringing into the area can do that. b...

Coming from angus houston, that happening sometime on friday. cnn has also learned that "ocean shield," the australian ship equipped with high-tech tools from the u.s. navy will be arriving into the search zone overnight. presumably it will be in place ready to detect the two high-tech tools that can scan the ocean floor. were going to have a lot of technology arriving at the search area on friday. not only "ocean shield" and "echo," but all of these tools in place to help solve the disappearanc...

Is anything left at all. lets talk about this with miles obrien and jeff wise. what can you tell us about what that means? >> its to go out and to listen essentially for these pings. ideally, what youd want to do first is work backwards against known currents and winds and have a place to look for it that you would be more likely to hold the remains. but having not found anything on the surface, it sounds like they are going to go out and have a go because time is running out and if they dont us...

Tight-lipped about this news conference that were expecting to happen here. will it be another announcement about a new search zone or will they announce more refined data analysis. we just dont know. but we do know in week four not one piece of this plane has been found. and australian officials warn theres no guarantee it will be found. a new ship searching for new leads. the british ship "hms echo" will do a specific search friday. its unclear what theyre zeroing in on. but what this ship can...

Juice. we will learn that the ship will conduct a search as the hms echo. they are hunting for sonar transmissions before the data recorder. they may hold the key to the mystery. what information do they hold and how is this data recovered? zane asher is here and you have a look at how these things look. >> thats right. i spent the day with an engineer in buffalo, new york who walked me through he they convert the information from the black box from binary code, ones and 0s to information that c...