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And were told one of these microphones picked up what they believe could be a signal from an in flight data recorder. they need to check it out. thats why theres data analysis that will be happening through the overnight hours in perth. we also got a new tidbit of new info. we know the british ship, the "hms echo" that was with the chinese ship that thought they heard something, they cleared that area. the british ship is moving to join the "ocean shield." we know that ship will be in the area a...

Feet under water but only works for eight hours. schl onobuoys were not designed for this kind of mission. >> the ones that im familiar with generally have very poor response to frequencies as high as 37 kilohertz. they are more for detecting mechanical signals from submarines, 1 kilohert or lower. >> reporter: the search continues to intensify. the british ship "hms echo" is now focusing where the pings have been detected. but crews continue to listen for even more pings to shrink the search zo...

Four, half a dozen more pings to start to narrow that search area down from the 500 square miles that rene reported it currently is. >> and, rene, youre there for us still. what are you hearing from your sources right now? do they anticipate that, you know, the next few hours theyre going to be able to announce maybe there have been some more pings? >> you know, at this point, we dont know if there have been any more pings. we do know that hms echo now in the vicinity, wolf. we know that it has ...

[ inaudible ] >> i understand theres been no further detections in the area where the chinese vessel assisted by hms echo, which is an oceanographic vessel from the royal navy. i believe they havent made any further detections. in terms of the analysis of the signals that it picked up, ill come back to you on that. im not sure where we are at with that. i havent had any advice that the analysis is complete at this stage. >> when you began this search and looking at the odds, the size of the ocea...

Week ago now was the final set of calculations done off the inmarsaf satellite, hand shake pings we heard about. this was the seventh calculus theyve done on this after, you know, bringing more radar down from various countries that had tracked this airplane in southeast asia. and they drew up this flight path and they sent ocean shield and hms echo, the british ship, to trod along this line. this is where they found the pings. and interestingly, according to inmarsat, the exact location where t...

Wreckage will stand out when they run side scan sonar. >> they havent done topography mapping so its like youre starting from scratch. >> a little bit, wolf. you heard the previous commentator talking about what we know about the bottom there. the good news is hms echo is nearby, fitted with the right type of gear to gi a very sort of quick ocean bottom map expedition that could be the information that would help move this faster. >> how deep can navy divers go? >> navy divers generally about 1,...

And were not talking years. >> van, how long do you think it will take? obviously, the search team has been very, very cautious on this and said it could take weeks and months, even with the information they have for that autonomous vehicle to pick up any debris, if there is debris down there? >> well, the problem were going to run into from here on out, the operation will start going slower and slower, at least as were watching it externally because they have to be incredibly careful. so what t...

They still consider in the most promising lead they have so far. >> of course the focus has been on the efforts of the ocean shield an the u.s. pinger locater, but there are other searches underway in other areas. why is that? and explain to us what is going on. >> thats right. you have the chinese find from days previous. they detected their own signals them hms echo out there investigating that. right now authorities in perth are saying the ocean shields finds are the most promising lead. 14 p...

Theres one search area that has been dramatically reduced in size, from 90,000 square miles or thereabouts, down to 30,000 square miles. so two-thirds, theyve shaved off of it, because of the leads that theyre investigating. but there are a couple of different search areas within that, in the north of that area, thats where were seeing the "ocean shield" scan the ocean bed, to try to recapture those electronic signals. in the south of that area, still the chinese vessel there, which detected tho...

Reacquire these pingers, also get the best measurement of depth there. and i think theyll probably get that using "hms echo." >> go ahead, richard. >> a quick question for you, david, what is the length of the search season, if you like, before the weather turns nasty and they would have to think about postponing for winter, regrouping, if they dont find it, and starting again in the next season. >> but arent these warmer waters where they are now? do they really have to worry about that in thes...