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On. we use these hydrophones to tag sharks or turtles and we run around with tenders and operations to track them for sciences. so the tools they are using, obviously they can use them too but i think they have more sophistication. >> i think the end of the story will be when we hear the next ping, especially in the same area the chinese claim they heard it. that will bring everybody together. and i think it will be more unified and everybody will be in the same direction and theyll be more beli...

The problem right now is the sound propagates through the ocean so they dont have any real knowledge about where exactly that is. as you look at the time and difficulty of putting the blue fin 21 down the water, you want a very good understanding of where that ping would be. >> lets just go on the second detection that lasted only 13 or so minutes. then there was this double ping going on, which many people say is terrific, because theres two, two boxes that were looking for, flight data and coc...

>> a submarine, a manned submarine would not help here. were using an auv, which can go down do 4400 meters depth to search for the wreckage. >> youre talking about an unmanned drone. that would be a lot better than a submarine. here is a question from utah. could the surface scanner shown on chinese news be a cover for more advanced technology that they dont want others to know about? >> could be. i thought they had to have more than a sound device on a stick but apparently people are saying th...

But the pings, to answer your question, in that part of the ocean, people have said it could be a biological tag on an animal for scientists or fishing gear or that type of thing? and i think i stated last night on cnn that most of the scientists that weve worked with in the past when theyve used biological tags, they dont have it pinging every second. that uses up the battery and it would be gone in 30 days or 60 days. so they have a ping every minute or every 30 minutes or whatever so they can...

One of the areas to search. >> how do they triangulate the ping location? can it be done? >> it can be done but you have got to get a couple of locations. >> thats why the u.s. navy says they are cautiously optimistic of the acquisition of the two signals is optimistic but still only cautiously optimistic pending visual confirmation. >> the old shield is going to get back over and reacquire that thing from a different location and start locking it in. >> here is is a question from tammy. could b...

An urgent race to verify two pings, an underwater listening device. officials say the signals are consistent with the airliners black boxes. a separate ping detected by a chinese ship. why one signal is being taken more seriously than the other. ♪ norfolk southern whats your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪ ♪ build! were investing big to keep our country in the lead. ♪ load! we keep moving to deliver what you need. and that means growth, lots of cargo

Been reading, the chinese picked up the pings first. >> michael kay, is this effectively the haystack weve been looking for, or is that too optimistic? >> no, i think weve completely bipassed the haystack. i think were going straight in for the needle. i cant remember a time in history on any accident investigation where authorities and search operators actually found the needle before they found the haystack. just like to pick up the point youve been raising. this is a critical time. the weakne...

Said it earlier. it was a blender. anything that had the potential to float was going to get filled up with water and sink. it isnt as bad now, look, this is where the ping was and this is our picture we were seeing. >> i am looking for the scream somewhere within that. >> exactly. this is kind of whats going on in the general area but only two to three miles per hour. things arent getting blown around now but they are scattered. >> i was trying to look at the map and your fancy movement took it...

When we got the very first data, if you look at the map, the examples of the southern track, im only showing it to show, what we have is actually exactly that. it goes north, it then goes to the west and it does an arc around the northern tip of banda aceh. what is different now is that sources in malaysia are saying this route is part of the reason why theyre now saying nefarious. they use the pings and the hand shakes to determine it went in, out, around. >> so you have, tim, you have the subm...

The united states. to update us on the search. we understood, we heard from him last evening at midnight. it was midnight that he came on, right? we heard from him last evening saying that the echo had heard something, that the ocean shield possibly had heard something. there were three different events, one by a chinese ship and one by the australian ship. and that they were possibly going to move the australian ship in the vicinity where the chinese ship had heard the ping earlier. so the info...