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Legitimate or not. if it goes away, unless they can reacquire it, theyll to have put the bigger brothers of this into the water and go looking, do some kind of search pattern. >> this scans the bottom with sound. it takes long range pictures, a mapping of the bottom, 1,000 meters on each side if it is the bigger vehicle and brings them back so we can locate the wreckage. >> what is that? >> this is where they will emanate the sound out. >> it was recorded on the internal hard drive and you recov...

Things, right? >> thats right, fredericka. when youre running a major crisis, you can set up tfansies grid, search, maps devised by investigators but if you receive new information that has a remote possibility of being credible or possible, you change, you make a change, you do something. the problem im having with this flow of information is, you know, right now its almost midnight in australia. if in fact they got this information in the middle of the day 12 hours ago, lunchtime, they had pla...

Are based on stuff on the surface. its still a visual search pattern that were doing primarily also supplemented by radar searching. so they are start of the art as far as the equipment on board and they are ideally suited for this type of search. its limited and are they giving you expect to be involved in the search for how much longer. have they given you any time frame at all in the pingers from the so-called black boxes and within a matter of days the batteries will dry up. >> thats right. ...

The ship while we conduct our search pattern. >> its got to be a very difficult thing for those lookouts to be scanning waters hours on end. do you rotate them through? how long do they stay out there looking? after awhile i would think the eyes looking through the binoculars would be very difficult constantly looking in the water. >> the conditions down here, its very cold. we rotate the lookouts through every hour. and make sure that they are appropriately dressed to combat the very cold condi...

And everybodys assigned certain areas so depending on what area were assigned, well do our little search pattern in the search box that we have and report back if, in fact, we see anything. >> so we know two american planes up in the air, a p-8 and the navy p-3. theyve covered an amazing area, 220,000 nautical square miles. how much more ground do you have to cover? >> well, it depends on where we get assigned for the -- with the air tasking order from the australians who are leading the search....

>> look at these. did they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because they are so overwhelming. they are talking about the waves getting up over 32 feet high. how are they supposed to even search out there? >> will you are exactly right extremely challenging. very adverse conditions. part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now than some of the past investigations, some of the other guests have talked about. using that technology with no search pat...

Extrapolated version of a last known position. when you are talking about the south indian ocean, the vastness of that body of water, the depth of that body of water, the terrain around it that body of water makes it an extraordinarily difficult search pattern to put into place. you know, when hunter left jfk and exploded in the air the datum was immediate and well known. even the jfk jr. flight which left new york on its way to marthas vineyard very well known pattern, we knew exactly where to ...

And so forth. so actually they have a good observation platform for any type of observation. with good visibility, with binoculars they will be able to search through a relatively large area. lets not forget theyre being pinpointed to the area by the australian authorities. so hopefully its going to be effective today. >> just so we can do the math, if they do spot it from the air, how fast is that gigantic cargo ship? how fast could it get to where it need to go? >> well, it already has an area...

Extrapolated version of a last known position. when you are talking about the south indian ocean, the vastness of that body of water, the depth of that body of water, the terrain around it that body of water makes it an extraordinarily difficult search pattern to put into place. you know, when hunter left jfk and exploded in the air the datum was immediate and well known. even the jfk jr. flight which left new york on its way to marthas vineyard very well known pattern, we knew exactly where to ...

A sector that it will search through. they have already agreed to a search pattern, whether thats straight or zigzags in certain segments is really up to the australians. but they will do what they are told to do by the australians rescue authorities. >> but do you anticipate the australians saying we found the piece were looking for, we need you guys to get over there and pull it out of the ocean? do you have the capability of doing that? or will that be a different dedicated search vessel? >> ...