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Operation. she said that it is moving because that, at the moment, is the most promising lead. she also noted everyone pretty much has discounted the detections of the chinese vessel made over the weekend. as for what exactly it is going to be doing when it arrives, she said that is unclear. she said at the moment the "ocean shield" is taking the lead in this operation. worth noting of course that the "hms echo" is equipped with sophisticated sound-detecting equipment and technology that would e...

I want go to perth, australia, the base of the operation of the search. michael holmes is on the scene with more. whats the latest there, michael? >> reporter: yeah, were going to have the search planes out again. more than a dozen of them, wolf. theyll be leaving in the sectithefection few hours. also, those ships, again, are going to be scouring the ocean today. something rene mentioned is really interesting. ocean shield joined now, we reported this to you yesterday, that it was headed to the...

Is getting down here to use what is called synthetic appature sonar. the big question is what is happening up on the surface. rough waters may get hard to deploy, hard to recover. they want to do a lot of mapping up there like with the "hms echo" to figure out what they are dealing with before they throw the expensive robots into the water to start searching. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. lets bring in our panel. jacque is a maritime explorer and miles obrien is a correspondent for pbs ne...

Well, a spokesperson from the british ministry of defense tells me that the "hms echo," which is a british vessel, is currently on its way to join the australian vessel, the "ocean shield." she said that its going there because the "ocean shield" currently has the most promising leads in this search. she also said that they have managed to discount those signals detected by the chinese vessel over the weekend. as for what its going to be doing when it gets there, she said she wasnt sure, that th...

But its worth saying that the "hms echo" has sophisticated sound-detecting equipment, but its also capable of mapping the sea floor. officials here in australia are not commenting on this development in the search at the moment, but not saying whether or not this might signal perhaps a new stage of this search. for all we know, as you say, the "ocean shield" is currently out there, equipped with that american towed pinger locator, scouring the waters, trying to detect more signals from this blac...

Ship, an oceanography ship, the hms echo. its going to work with the ocean shield to look at the ocean floor. it casts a two-mile wide echo ping down to the ocean floor, hoping to get a ping back from the wreckage. so its a big development to get that out there to help the ocean shield while other ships are looking for wreckage several hundred miles away where expert says it might have drifted. erin? >> thank you very much to you, michael. those first planes out of the gate are from new zealand ...

Absolutely certain that the battery has completely run out. as you mentioned on tuesday, the signals they detected, noticeably weaker than the signals detected on saturday. now, its also interesting to note that one of our producers taking a look at at marine traffic monitoring website noticed that the british vessel, the hms echo was moving in the direction of the ocean shield. we reached out to authorities here in perth for more information on that. we have been unable to confirm officially th...

Havent been some changes made. >> reporter: the search area surrounding the ocean shield continues to intensify. the british ship, hms echo, has pulled out of its position to the southwest and is now focusing where the pings have been detected. but crews continue to listen for even more pings to shrink the search zone. a smaller zone is necessary. the underwater vehicle can only search 40 square miles a day. that means the roughly 500-square-mile area where the pings were detected over a span of...

>> the last thing you want to do is introduce another noise source in the area where you are trying to listen carefully and the auv will produce noise. its not uncommon to get false signals from any equipment that might be producing noise whether it is on the ship, the auv or perhaps something in the tpl itself. you want to make sure you are keeping random noise out of the search area. >> geoffrey, do you concur? >> absolutely. the matter is the pingers can cover six times the area that the blue...

Explanation of what happened after the boeing 777 turned west and crossed over the malaysian peninsula. malaysian sources tell cnn the plane disappeared from military radar for about 120 nautical miles, indicating that it might have dipped to an altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. and wolf, a dozen planes and a dozen ships will again be scouring the ocean. the "ocean shield," the vessel that has been towing the ping locator has been joined by a british naval ship in the area where the pings w...