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The north atlantic. thank you for joining us. do you think that investigators are going about the search for flight 370 in the right manner? >> thank you for inviting me, don. first of all, yes, i think so. "titanic" did not have a ping er on it that we could listen and be guaranteed within a few miles of the wreck in order to know where it was. and given the fact this is a standard search procedure that the u.s. navy uses for its military planes and things like that, i really cant see any other...

Happens. its the fact theyre having glitches, theyre able to fix them quickly on the deck and get them back into the water. thats a promising sign. >> i want to get you both to respond to this interesting quote i read earlier. a wreckage expert, not connected to the search, told the australian media, quote, i think essentially they have found the wreckage site, four very, very good detections with the right spectrum of noise and it cant be from anything else. >> basically, yes. ive said so on se...

Realized that the opportunity to find the wreckage has passed, the combination of a slow start, and a tropical cyclone has just made it impossible. time to focus on the bottom of the ocean. >> and, thomas, that blue fin could be searching the bottom of the ocean for two months. this operation is getting expensive. at what point should they consider scaling back the operation? >> well, its probably not something that i really have a good feel for. thats a decision that really is something that th...

Was probably a surprise to them when they realized, wow, this is deeper than we thought. >> i want to go back to perth, jeffrey thomas is joining us from perth, editor in chief of airlineratings.com. whats the latest youre hearing as far as this underwater search is going on? youre there on the scene, jeffrey. >> reporter: indeed, wolf. look, the way its been described to me is that this first mission that was aborted, this is more of a shakedown mission to see what the operating environment is ...

P.h. good to talk to you from boston. school us a little bit about just the conditions, pitch black, incredible pressure, how does this search compare to work you did on the "titanic"? >> its the same kind of search because were looking for debris field. it was a huge debris field where you can find things from china, piece of wreck, anything like that. same condition of course, totally dark and have to use some light to see anything, you are also use sewing near. we can detect some equipment. w...

Scanner sonar and other submersibles and it took them 2 1/2 years to find it and they sort of knew the area where they were looking. >> thats right. they had a point to start with with air france 447. they recovered a little bit of wreckage. they had more clues to work with in that search. the towed pinger locator was also used and did not find the black box. it went right over it and didnt find it. officials at phoenix international say thats because the pinger became separated from the black b...

Generally here. >> correct. >> its a large area, still, that were talking about, like 500 square miles. but the mission today that the bluefin is going to be taking on, theyre starting at 40 square kilometers, 15, 16 square miles? >> right. and again, thats focused on this line -- oops -- >> thats okay. pick a color. any color. >> all right. so lets go out for a second. and this line is two hours, they have that ping. >> okay. >> now, think about that, as to where within the pinger would be, it ...

Answer very quickly. it usually takes integration of a lot of different sources and information. some smart people thinking about it, who understand what these pieces mean and a deliberate search effort that may take year, im sorry to say. >> mary schiavo, same question to you. >> well, i think the significance is not only with the, you know, the pings and the difficulty in finding them and the demonstration was great to show us how difficult it is, but here they have two different black boxes t...

Debris from the plane, if its out there and until they get that, it doesnt seem like were going to get a lot more information from them, at least at this stage. >> joe johns, understood they are frustrated and probably warn out a bit and all they want is some solid information. you know, joe johns mentioned debris, david. listen, this so no confirmation of debris but angus houston did mention an oil slick in the area of where they heard the possible pingers and said they collected a couple of li...

Hours to return, and four hours to down load images which are high resolution image of the area searching 4.500 meters. so that is about 2.8 miles underwater. and the terrain is very difficult. its an area that is, he says quote new to man. its flat and rolling. a lot of silt on the bottom. it can be layered and very teep which will complicate the search. it is a final step towards making a visual determination. said they have not heard a detection from the pinger since tuesday. is six days now....