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Shields" detections. a smaller area has allowed much tighter search patterns based entirely on visual search principles. in other words, we have intensified our search in the visual search area. just a bit of housekeeping, at my last press conference i said i could come back to you with the precise timing of when the signals were detected by the "ocean shield." the first detection took place on saturday, the 5th of april at 4:45 p.m. perth time. the second detection took place on saturday, the 5...

Locate some concentrated area of wreckage, thats where you and your kind of expertise would come in. how would one go about retrieving something in the depths of the ocean because, clearly, retrieving the stuff on the surface is far different than retrieving that that may be at the bottom. how do you go about that? >> well, yeah, actually the very first step is locating the debris obviously. but that search is going to be part of what our companies, our salvage industry does. we do that work. an...

Aircraft was, but they didnt get to it while the pings were still operational. it took them two years, and it answered the riddle. >> they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because these seas are so overwhelming. theyre talking about some of these waves getting up 32 feet high. how are they even supposed to search out there? >> well, youre exactly right. extremely challenging, and very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology, which is something that is far more a...

Boxes up. this answered the riddle. >> shawn, look at these -- they call this body of ocean, the roarierroroaring 40s. how are they supposed to even search out there. >> well, youre exactly right. extremely challenging and very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now then in the past investigations, some of the other guests have talked about. but using that technology with known search patterns. these folks are trained...

They did get one of the black boxes up. this answered the riddle. >> shawn, look at these -- they call this body of ocean, the roarierroroaring 40s. how are they supposed to even search out there. >> well, youre exactly right. extremely challenging and very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now then in the past investigations, some of the other guests have talked about. but using that technology with known search pat...

Riddle. >> sean, they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s, because these seas are just so overwhelming. look at some of this video. theyre talking about some of these waves getting up over 32 feet high. how are they supposed to even search out there? >> well, youre exactly right. extremely challenging. and, you know, very adverse conditions, right? so 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 oth...

One of the black boxes up and it answered the riddle. >> they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because the seas are just so overwhelming. they talk about the seas getting sometimes up over 32 feet high. how are they even supposed to search out there? >> well, youre exactly right, extremely challenging, very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past investigations. some of the other guests ...

They call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because these seas are just so overwhelming. look at some of this video. theyre talking about some of these waves getting up over 32 feet high. how are they supposed to even search out there? >> youre exactly right. extremely challenging and very adverse conditions. part of this is using gps technology, which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past investigation, some of the other guests have talked about. but using that ...

One of the black boxes up and it answered the riddle. >> they call this body of ocean the roaring 40s because the seas are just so overwhelming. they talk about the seas getting sometimes up over 32 feet high. how are they even supposed to search out there? >> well, youre exactly right, extremely challenging, very adverse conditions, right? so part of this is using gps technology which is something that is far more accessible now than in some of the past investigations. some of the other guests ...

Drift. so theyll take the current position and then theyll pack it up, the number of days and hours, right down to the hour, that that most probably impacted. it will start the concentration of the search in that area and then go outward. so if they do identify that debris area to be the malaysian aircraft, then in short order, they will find where that flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder is. >> of course, the first order of business is going to make sure that there are no surviv...