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With a towed pinger on board. it can probe the oceans depths down to 20,000 feet. >> heres the black box and you can see a pinger or beacon, as you call it, attached to the black box. when this gets wet, it triggers a signal in here. >> reporter: the pinger locator can detect the black box signal from as far as two nautical miles away but it has limitations. >> weather is a big factor. if the boat is doing this on the ocean waves, now youre attached to this thing and so this thing goes up and do...

Well goat the other things, including the radar. i want to get to colleen now. what does it tell you that several days of work, as you look at this new ship that is going out, no new research, no new search there is a new search area. nothing has turned up right now. theyre using this ocean shield to get there with the pinger. and we have those live exclusive pictures of that. and weve got will ripley out there now traveling with that. does this offer more hope now with the new search area and w...

Thats assuming all the down time and travel time. youve got two vehicles launching two of these bluefin systems they have here, it would take four years of looking on the bottom if they dont have the pinger. do they have the budget? and conservatively, $700 million to do that. these assets arent cheap. >> miles obrien, do you want to respond to any of that? i have another question. >> it is important and tim brings up such an important point. were talking about this giant space. and in the case ...

If it came off of a plan, we will know whether it is from a plane. for passengers the things that float are passengers, luggage, tennis shoes. they find it, theyll know. >> so now we get to the pinger and its not hype to say time is running out. its a rule of thumb that you have about 30 days best case scenario that that pinger still goes off, that black box making a sound going off that can be picked up by equipment. question to you. why only 30 days? >> its the same question the french governm...

Of flight 370. the italian ship will be the linchpin of the investigation, but only if and when air wreckage is found. >> this is a very complex and challenging job, and the first real step here is to find some debris so that committee can back cast and pinpoint an impact point to give us an initial search area. >> reporter: being fitted on board, a u.s. navy tow pinger locator that will try to isolate the signal from the cockpit and flight data reporters and a bluefin 21, an underwater vehicle ...

Is because they hadnt been asked, but maybe its time to engage in some kind of full-court press before the weather turns and its too late. >> you heard chuck hagel, the questions secretary say today just ask and well try to accommodate. the u.s. has two p-8 po sidy aircraft, theyre the post advanced in perth right now. they apparently go out one day after the another. is that enough? >> it is not enough, wolf. and the reality is we need to get -- the cliche is boots on the ground. we need boats ...

The actual transcripts of the munication between the pilot and the flight controller still not made public yet. we will talk more about whether this is significant and why that has not been made public. as for the search itself, time is running out on that emergency locator pinger. by next week, the 30-day more or less battery life of the planes black box pinger will likely expire. this is the clicking sound they are listening for if its not silent already. right now an australian navy ship outf...

Locator? >> even if the pinger is working, its an incredibly difficult job. let me bring down the lights and show you why this is so difficult. in the portion of the ocean, the only way you can find anything is with a device. you cant see anything. youre looking for electronic window trying to look at little portions at a time. thats the only way to do this. and you because of that, its a much slower process. we talked earlier about 50 square miles a day towing something and youre trying to cove...

Quickly before you can hear it. >> they call it mowing the ocean and they have to go back and forth, except while theyre looking in one square, miles away in another area might be where it is. without more exacting information, theyre relying on a little luck. sometimes its better to be lucky. if they get lucky with towing the pinger, thats good. i cant see not using it. i understand the skepticism but, my goodness, at this point theyve just got to try. im going to go with the australians on thi...

Then were trying to base further analysis and science off where the impact was on the currents and the drift. so its impossible. >> you said that listen, the ships that are out there now, the planes, they want to get to the debris if possible or objects. that ship wants to get to the plane, to the pinger, right? to the data recorders? >> thats my understanding. now that has been delayed six hours. but that could change. the information has been so free-flowing in this particular story. >> sure. ...