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Because the batteries, the potential location for the box seems to be very, very inhospitable. >> we talked about this before. its not an exact, hard deadline. walk us through this. >> well, the spec says it goes 30 days but often times it goes longer than that. occasionally 35 or so forth. but occasionally picked it up where it was well over 35 days. so there is some hope of an elapsed time. and then they have found flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders in the past without the ping....

Not like yesterday where we had 30 footers in the ocean. today, much better. we dont get any rainfall for the next 48 hours, thats the good news. this is the rain map from cnn international right there, thanks to our guys down there. and theres the window thats going to come in, in 48 hours. thats going to make huge white caps and huge problems. >> chad, lets talk about the depth of the ocean here. when they were searching in the gulf of thailand early on, youre talking about 296 feet deep. its ...

Theyre saying. >> for the constraints of time that you have, you do have sources and you are of the belief that our government in particular has a lot more information. can you confirm that you have sources that also are adding to your theory? >> not now, i cant. as you know im in the witness protection program right now. >> okay, fair enough. >> i dont want to put you -- >> im a face to face person. yeah, and rolls royce, get rolls royce and get boeings comments. they know a lot about from that...

My d hydrophones. how hard is it to search under water? what kind of equipment do you need to scan that ocean floor? >> the hydrophone is a passive device. it listens from the ping from the beacon on an aircraft. once that ping is heard, they have an idea where the location is. if that beacon dies and the pings are no longer there, you have to search for deep ocean sonars. we use deep ocean sonars to find objects on the bottom. they have a rarnge. our sonars have a range of 1250 meters. we do a ...

To see if it wanted service or not. >> in your view if this airplane had been compromised by something like that smoke or fire would it have been possible for a couple of apps to go down as opposed to the entire inmarsat box? >> look, i dont think im qualified to say what happened on the plane, but for the inmarsat to determine if it was powered, you draw your own conclusion to determine of it would run for many hours. >> if the plane continued to fly westward and ping, would a pilot understand ...

The next 48 hours, thats the good news. this is the rain map from cnn international right there, thanks to our guys down there. and theres the window thats going to come in, in 48 hours. thats going to make huge white caps and huge problems. >> chad, lets talk about the depth of the ocean here. when they were searching in the gulf of thailand early on, youre talking about 296 feet deep. its a whole other story here. >> absolutely. almost two miles. if were looking for the pinger, the pinger ping...

Be where you saw it. and i dont mean by a little bit. it may be five miles, six miles, seven miles away. big change. and once you go below the surface, then it really gets complicated. we keep talking about the underwater technology. undeniably important in terms of locating the details once you get there. for example, you could go down here with the side scan s.o.n.a.r.,t terrific device tht sends a ping signal and creates by doing this an underwater topographical map. this is what comes out of...

To see if it wanted service or not. >> in your view if this airplane had been compromised by something like that smoke or fire would it have been possible for a couple of apps to go down as opposed to the entire inmarsat box? >> look, i dont think im qualified to say what happened on the plane, but for the inmarsat to determine if it was powered, you draw your own conclusion to determine of it would run for many hours. >> if the plane continued to fly westward and ping, would a pilot understand ...

She wants to keep the hope alive and her hope alive would be the northern track, the plane was taken up and ended up -- >> understandably. >> absolutely, a country that may be hos pitable to enemies of the united states or what have you. the reason they are focusing on the southern track because of the satellite pings that suggested a track to the north and they believe that would put it in the southern hemisphere. in addition to that, the spot they found the satellite photos, its almost an x on...

Go around the middle of the earth looking for these pings and connecting to them, we know what signal came. this the only satellite that received it, the lower satellite on the poles didnt receive it. thats why that arc is there. couldnt be beyond it because the ping would have been picked up here. cant be here because the ping would have been picked up here. >> were doing this in every regard the hard way including looking in areas where we dont know that it wasnt. instead of saying we know whe...