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Teledyne teledyne marine systems, the company that makes the pingers. thomas, hold on for a moment. chad, i think it bears repeating, i feel like its a shot in the dark when you dont know where youre looking, and you have to drag that pinger locater very, very slowly, and it only covers a very slow track. but remind me of the significance of that. >> its so big. 84,000 square miles is a giant area, what were looking at here. thats the pinger going back and forth. just give an idea, are that woul...

Much easier to do a visual search if youve got good weather and flat seas. >> in terms of the underwater search, exactly which equipment is going to be deployed today? >> the towed pinger has been deployed today on ocean shield. the search is currently ongoing, and of course, its not just ocean shield thats doing the search with the towed pinger, but hms echo, the british oceanographic ship, which is coming on a converging course, and it has good equipment for finding things on the floor of the ...

Astounded to read your company may have actually made the pinger that could be in the black boxes were searching for right now, is that correct? >> well, ashleigh, we make the pinger. we dont know which pingers are on which air frame. we sell them through a distributor o. is so it could be us, it could be another manufacturer in the u.s. >> were talking about how the time is really running out. i dont need to go any further but that the battery issue with you. i want you to show me the one we ma...

Even as theyve further refined this search zone. still, still a very big job. matthew, whats the latest? >> reporter: yeah, i dont think were in a situation where theyve narrowed down the search area to a sort of pinpoint location. i mean, theyve got these assets in the area, theyve got a british nuclear submarine, which is equipped with highly advanced underwater detection technology. theyve got these two surface ships as well, one australian, one british. the australian one equipped with some ...

Buildings stacked upon each other. >> more than two miles deep. you can look at it that way too. once the pinger dies, youve got to get these remotely operated vehicles. >> this equipment also has limitations. the pinger locator can search to a max depth of 20,000 feet as i understand it. thats generally the depth that theyre looking at. >> its still functioning. >> but thats a huge challenge. >> right. normally the plan would have been find wreckage on the surface and then search under that spo...

You said it is the best we can do. to be blunt, are you hoping to get lucky? >> yes, we are. the area, still hundreds of miles big. we fly every day. our p-8 and p-3s. we have flown 300,000 square nautical miles of coverage, until we get conclusive evidence of debris, it is just a guess. >> just a guess. hoping to get lucky at this point. the search for flight 370 its really now just based on educated guess work. thats commander william marks, whom i spoke with overnight. an interesting discussi...

Rod mccallum has extensive experience searching under water. rob is here with us right now. so how difficult of a mission is this, since theyre not even sure, as ive been saying, theyre looking in the right place? but now all of this high-tech underwater equipment has been put in place, and its moving around. trying to hear that pinger. >> yeah. it is a long shot. but although its a long shot, its the best shot. you know, theres no sense in having those assets in that part of the world and not h...

Searchers have taken the mission underwater. thats what i mean by the change. scouring this 150-mile track of the ocean floor trying to locate the black boxes before the pingers on the devices go silent. assuming they are still emitting any pings at all by this point in time. batteries could be dead. crews today dropped a u.s. pinger locater in the water. heres what it looks like here. its a listening device. hoping it will listen for and pick up the pings emitted by the two black boxes. also on...

Husband on board would just vanish like that. wolf, she says it does give her a measure of comfort, in her words, they are looking for paul. wolf? >> heartbreaking story this past four weeks. and it continues. paula, thanks very much. so new advanced devices are now being deployed under water. this is a change in the entire operation. but no one knows for sure where the plane is. and they have some indications. but thats it. the pinger batteries on the flight recorders, they are running out. so ...

Sophisticated, high-tech equipment. but the devices are designed to be used once a debris field is located and is the search area is dramatically narrowed down. brian todd is here with more on this part of the story. so obviously, there are great limits to what this high-tech underwater equipment can do since theyre not even sure theyre looking in the right place. >> thats right, wolf. this equipment is very impressive. this towed pinger locater can go 20,000 feet below the surface, can detect t...