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Didnt sink in the silt -- >> if the pinger battery is dead what good is that? >> well, mean, if the pinger was on the surface, at the bottom, i should say, of the silt, and give a signal, then maybe the box was sitting on top of the silt as opposed to in the silt. >> eight men and women are taxed with solving one of the greatest mysteries in modern aviation. what specialists on board the australian ship, what theyre up against in this around the clock hunt for flight 370. and the health and hu...

That when this ping starts radiating out it hits the temperature layer and then it can come back down. so youve got these things. so now youre dragging your pinger through here, the tpl, and from here to here, maybe seven minutes. from here to here, maybe its five minutes. >> i see. >> okay. >> okay. >> so you may not necessarily be -- i got a lot of lines going up there. >> you do. youre going crazy. i dont know what to do with you. let me ask you about, how does the fifth ping, the fifth ping ...

Information is correct. then how does the search change? >> probably the area will be much smaller. the area is 18,000 square miles, which is a huge area. its like four or five times more than for the -- which is a lot. i can tell you it was already a big area. but, you know, i dont trust very much because we used even on the "titanic," on the "titanic" debris field we were using the same pinger sensing as a marker. >> you dont trust it? >> most of the time we never heard them. it was so hard. w...

>> its hard to understand personally to understand the nature of the messaging that were getting from the australians. you know, objectively speaking, this is day 35 of whats shaping up to be the most expensive search for an aircraft in history. and what do we have to show for it -- nothing. weve got no wreckage, weve got no clues, we dont know why this was done, really even who did it or why. its just one huge question mark. and maybe people are getting frustrated. oh, and to mention -- dont fo...

Confidence is there that something will be found on or below the surface. now, the plan at the moment is to continue that search, hope to hear even more pings and narrow the search area down to even further that of course becoming less and less likely with the pinger batteries fading, even by the hour. of course, important to remember, even if say the wreckage or the data recorders were located even today, the recovery phase has a whole new set of challenges, getting the right vehicles in place ...

Square miles. >> right. youve got about 24 -- well, about 18 square miles this way. >> right. >> between these pings. the first ping they got was a two-hour journey here. so for two hours they were within somehow within that -- that reach of the pinger. these others are what im going to call outliers. >> why is there such a discrepancy, if you will, in the duration of the time? you think this is the most reliable, the two hours plus. >> without a doubt. >> then what happened here? >> what happen...

See the plane, then that is really new territory. >> theyll be able to see the plane. will they be able to see all of the plane? because theres, what, 20 meters, in some cases, of silt on the ocean floor. you were telling us about this silt. will that cause visibility problems? what kind of challenges will that present? >> yes, its absolutely true that its visibility problems, probably. it might also be sound problems. it might be that the pinger -- and remember, theyre still searching or listen...

You deploy a canister from a moving aircraft and it releases a little microphone when it hits the water and the microphone goes down about 1,000 feet and it has a surface float that can send the sound signals to the plane that it was launched from so were actually getting the sonic information from below. but were getting it in realtime to the aircraft above. >> is this method as accurate as the tpl, the towed pinger locater? >> yeah, i think so. they are all very high fidelity microphones. its ...

How much more narrow do we need it before the robots go in. >> the thousand sand fofoot lev doesnt say its not here. it does say im getting something here, lets explore it. you look at the path where the ocean shield went and if you get this other pinger, lets look up here a little bit since we know theres some kind of signal there, lets find out if its legitimate and the lower level. >> weve forgotten how many aircraft are out looking for floating debris and theyve seen nothin nothing. >> again...

Your interest. >> absolutely. m theyre used in this area, not necessarily for civilial but military aircraft. they can start triangulation and hear signals from multiple so sonobuoys and put a pinger or on the target of interest and searc search. >> i want to run the videos of these sonbuoys, as they get thrown out of the aircraft. one of the things we havent seen, as it crosses over, you will see the sonobuoy flying. i find this fascinating. walk me through what were seeing? >> this is the pc o...