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Hundreds of miles. >> right. >> and thats what theyre working on now. >> okay. so theres this ship called the ocean shield. its going to be sent out, or it is, and theres a drone on that ship. so explain for us what that might do. because quite frankly, were running out of time. >> we are running out of time. the batteries are only supposed to last 30 days. i believe it detects the pings from the flight data recorder that are sent out. now, that ping only travels about two miles under water. so ...

Positive thing, because weve got, you know, the possibility -- i mean, the shot in the dark with that ship that is in port right now. >> michael kay? >> i think just again, we need to be best utilizing our assets to try and work out whether were looking for the haystack or whether were looking for the needle. there is effectively two independent searches going on. were talking about, what rosa was talking about, what happens beyond the assumption of where the impact point was and how the current...

>> i dont want to be skeptical either, david, but as you know, they just changed the search area again a few days ago. we dont even know that that search area, the size of poland, is the right one. >> well, you know, ive been a little concerned about the fact that they are not releasing the ping data because on my twitter account and on cnns, were receiving so much information from really top-notch scientists from around the world asking, just give us some of the l-band information. give us the ...

With australias prime minister. >> this is a very, very difficult task but nevertheless were giving it the very best shot we can. and if anyone can find this aircraft, its us. >> how long can this be sustained realistically? >> the effort is ramping up. not winding down. >> but its now a race against the clock as the battery life fades on those black boxes. >> both of those devices have been emitting a ping for several weeks. we believe they only have about a week of battery life left >> youre l...

It will take three days to get there. on this ship is very hi-tech equipment that could be the key to solving the mystery of flight 370. they have an underwater microphone a giant microphone that can hear the ping. heres the problem. it only has a one mile radius and right now we have a search area the size paradise cove land. its very important the aerial effort and sea effort continue to find debris to search in on that area. >> will riply reporting live for us on the indian ocean. four weeks ...

Locater is critical. and of course capable of picking up these black boxes, but not until the search area can be reduced significantly in size and that hasnt happened yet. so why is the ship being deployed at this time. is there something we dont know perhaps? >> reporter: theyre deploying it because the clock is ticking. we have maybe a week, maybe a week and a half of battery life left in those two vital recording of pieces of equipment, which are the pieces of equipment that will provide some...

Now theres new technology from the united states headed to help find the pinger, were told. nbcs ian williams joins us live from perth, australia. before we get to the latest on the search, start with how much time searchers have to find that so-called black box. >> reporter: hi, craig, well wed assume theyd have another week, because 30 days was the assumption was that it would keep pinging for 30 days, and that ends in about a week from now. but just before the ping locater left perth, the u.s...

And it seems like we at least have a clearer picture of a possible departure time. its even a little bit later than we now thought. were now looking at a 6:00 p.m. local departure time at the earliest. just under seven hours from right now. we now know the specifics about the type of inspection that needs to happen. they have installed an a-frame on the ocean shield which you see behind me. we can zoom in to give you guys a better look as it sits here at fremantle naval base here in western aust...

What were trying to find is an acoustic emission from one of the pingers on the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder. typically, these last -- the batteries last for 30 days. usually they last a little bit longer, and thats what were trying to find. but what is critical is that the teams that are out there searching for the surface debris, they get good position data on that, and they feed it back to the oceanographers to help us determine a probable point of impact for where the a...

Hopefully, well find at least something to go on. >> hopefully so. what if they dont detect any ping? then what? >> it is entirely possible that they wont. there have been issues with how the batteries are stored and that would affect battery life. there is an issue if they have fallen very deep into the ocean. if it is on one side of an underwater mountainous, it might not pick it up on the other side. there have been some accidents where the pinger didnt start at all anyway. it is not a given ...