Pings Stop News Today

Me now. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, gretchen. >> the fact that were seeing these pings and theyre getting closer and closer is all good news, right? >> its positive news. those pings are selected because they are unnatural in nature. so im going to assume 90% thats where the aircraft is, in that area, size of los angeles, like looking for a pc. but now with that search area down and if the pings stop, you launch the bluefin. >> its interesting because the australian prime minister says ...

Now theyve had five separate instances where they picked up sound from underneath the water. that has to be good. >> it is, it is very good. then they can nair vo the search area when they put the unmanned subs down with the side-scan sonar. even with the pings, it will take many days if theyre lucky and many weeks if theyre not, to locate it under the ocean. the more pings the better. you can zero in on where you want to be. >> at what point will they decide to send those drone submarines under...

Naval base on their western coast. the reason were here is because were monitoring the movements here of ocean shield. you see it. you cant miss it, really, its bright red, docked here at the naval base. it arrived here over the weekend. crews have been very busy here. theyve been outfitting this ship with u.s. navy technology that we hope is going to really help in this search. there is the tpl, that towed pinger locator. its basically a giant underwater microphone. you tow it behind the ship a...

This is australias largest naval base on their western coast. the reason were here is because were monitoring the movements here of ocean shield. you see it. you cant miss it, really, its bright red, docked here at the naval base. it arrived here over the weekend. crews have been very busy here. theyve been outfitting this ship with u.s. navy technology that we hope is going to really help in this search there is the tpl, that towed pinger locator. its basically a giant underwater microphone. yo...