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That get -- there we have a look at it -- does that get towed high above anything that it would run into? because youre thinking, this cant be running along the, you know, the bottom there of the ocean, or else its just going to get blocked by how rugged it is down there. >> absolutely. absolutely. so, theyre going to run it high enough in the water column. but the problem is, then, its quite far, still, to the bottom. so, just like with any sound you make, the further away you are from the ping...

Said we dont know what altitude it was. it could have been 12,000, could have been 35,000. so lets narrow that stuff down. i think thats what chuck hagel will be looking for, more specifici specificity. give me the numbers and tell me what those assumptions are so we can put our people on it and figure this out. >> reporter: it may be time for a desperate measure on the ocean floor. >> i hope theyre thinking right now, lets get that pinger locator into the deepest, deepest trenches. lets elimina...

Battery on that flight data recorder runs out, then that means bringing in sonar equipment. and this is one of the reasons why "hms tireless," the british nuclear submarine, is being brought in. its in the ocean, but not in the search area. but they hope to bring it here so if they manage to get even one little piece of debris from the plane, they can deploys sonars and other high-tech equipment to try to find the wreckage. >> clearly, atika, we know this is a huge search area, but is there any ...

Saying about the sub, they sometimes look for ships on the surface during their regular duties but they wouldnt be looking for debris? >> i think they could, but i would be surprised. maybe thats true, too. >> again, looking for the pinger, the clock is ticking on that. if its even working at full strength, which we dont know based on what you heard from an auditor on how malaysian airlines had stored devices in the past. so a lot of questions remain whether this is out there pinging. were going...

New search area. new equipment is joining the international effort. the hms tireless is a british submarine with sonar. it is reportedly now in the search zone. as planes search for debris, the sub like this device, called the tpl is focused on searching for the flights recorders. tim taylor is a specialist who runs the vessel company. we have been hearing that the tpl toad pinger locator supposed to arrive can be used to search the range of the potential black box pinger. we are talking about t...

The u.s. will obviously pay what is necessary from the u.s. contributions and that will continue. but theyre going to have to come up with more than just -- the malaysians will have to say what it is they want rather than just, here, you get on and do it, because the u.s. is going to be turning around and saying, tell us what you need, show us where you want us to go, and we will then be able to make a judgment on how we best assist. putting it another way, wolf, the ntsb is already there. the p...

Weekend. time is running out for the pings from the black boxes. there is willsalso a british sut will be reaching out. what can they do without debris on the surface? >> very, very little. even if we had debris on the surface. it would be some hundreds of miles from potential impact site. so they need to be practically on top of any wreckage on the sea floor, which is not going to be related to wreckage on the sea surface in order to get ahead. you would have to be a desperate optimist to claim...

Modified 737 to the area to act as air traffic control. i wonder if this is typical, even for the people out on the water, that someone should be looking after them, as well. >> thats right. they use these planes in military exercises, where lots of different services have to coordinate and make sure that everyone is safe while theyre doing those exercises. i just think it makes a tremendous amount of sense, because for example, in the united states every -- almost every year, the coast guard lo...

Had a military submarine on scene. i assume thats part of the role here, because military subs dont go near as deep as the sea floor is here. its too deep. they dont normally carry the sides of side scan that can scour the bottom. maybe it has it but it would be classified. but it remains to be seen what the mission of the sub is. >> they would not be involved -- one of the things that kim was saying about the sub, they sometimes look for ships on the surface during their regular duties but they...

This may sound a little unsettling. but do you know that we as a human race have more information about the mapping of mars than we do about our own oceans? its true. were about at the 5% mark when it comes to our oceans. and chad myers joins me now to answer questions about that. a., why. and b., what do we know and what dont we know. >> why is because you cant take a picture from a satellite of the ocean floor and get the up and down. get the canyons. you just cant see through the ocean far en...