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447, three vehicles in the water at one time. thisr triples productivity and allows you to have systems to work cooperatively together to increase the effectiveness of the search thats going on. >> does that make sense, rob, to bring in other equipment, and youd do it simultaneously, bluefin-21, remus 6,000, presumably other equipment brought in as well? >> there is. its a question of what it is youre trying to achieve. if youre trying to achieve a very detailed analysis of a small area, as we a...

Of airlineratings.com. good to see all of you. welcome to the week, its monday now. bluefin-21 has already scanned two-thirds of the search zone. if it continues to find nothing, what is plan "b"? >> well, its a very good question, don, and a question that everybody here in perth, western australia, is asking. look, they may well extend to one of the other pinger locations. they may move it and do another 10k radius around one of the other spots, but they are also looking at a wider strategy of ...

The pings, there was an assumption that this could take months and it was taking months in an environment in which we were prepared to take months. so well just keep going. >> and one potential phase of a future search, shifting much of it to private contractors and in that search it took more than 75 days over the course of two years to find the wreckage and they even have debris to work off of. this is certainly a difficult situation for investigators. >> pamela brown, thank you so much. lets ...

Viewers anyway who have just come out of a winter, its very much like a hard-packed snow with a light dusting of powder on top. for sonar searching, what youre getting is youre throwing sound out into the water and its being bounced back off objects and returned to back, in this case bluefin. depending on what the sound is hitting, it gives a different kind of return. it will enable searchers to distinguish between the natural terrain, the mud if you like, and anything human made like aircraft p...

Future? >> it really depends on how these pinger locations work out. you know, the search controller is obviously very confident in the location that the ping verse been heard at f those pan out to be correct, then bluefin may strike it lucky. but if theres any doubt about that or if this drags on another week or two or we get bad weather as we move into winter, then for certain, we will have to move into deep towed sonar. >> the calendar is clicking away, sometime definitely not on our side. ro...

Saturday for that two-hour period. that says we are in the right area. >> david, what kind of further research can be done on those last pinger locations if theyre within a 17-mile radius? what can researchers do and searchers do with that last bit of information to try to pinpoint a pinger or a black box, whatever originated that sound? >> well, theres a couple of things. we talked about triangulation before and when you have one point, you have a straight line to work with, so if you put circl...

At the same time, you dont believe thats the only one. you think others should be introduced to the scene. >> the tool that is going to be used is side scan sonar and you can deploy it one of two ways. you can put it on an auv or you can tow it through the ocean on a towed sledder and the advantage is that they can be deployed very quickly but they have limited range. the bluefin might search something like 30 miles a day whereas a towed aray may search 100 miles a day. its a question of scale. ...

Search area, trying to reacquire a signal. and the search for debris is taking place to the west of there. talk to us about that effort. >> thats right. some 14 planes and 13 ships continuing to scour the waters for any signs of plane debris. theyre now looking in an area thats based on a current analysis, using the information theyve been able to acquire from the believed flight path, as well as from the pinger locations detected by the ocean shield. theyve been able to narrow down that search ...

Is the various moments when over the four-pinger locations that are being detected. the first and second were on saturday. the third and the fourth were on tuesday. now, we can only see on this map where they lost the first and the second, and that is also because the time distance was greater, one was two hours, 20, the other was 13. by the time you get to number three and number four youre really talking about a matter of minutes, 532 and seven minutes. >> these are detections being made by th...

>> oh, my. >> no, not yet. until something was found, if anything was soon found, we would never give up. >> reporter: never give up hope? >> yes. right. we know that with the time passing, the hope, less hope, but we will still have hope. >> reporter: even if that hope runs out, they want to keep the spirit and the memories alive of the 239 souls aboard flight 370. well, wolf, so much of the focus has been on the search area this plane. on any debris that might be found, on the pinger locations...