Silt Bottom News Today

They are all boston strong and we salute them. Im anderson cooper. Good night. I hope you were with us during the last hour and you were inspired as watching adrianne hasletdavis story. She is truly boston strong. One thing she wanted to get across to everyone watching is something her grandmother said to her as a kid it is okay to not be okay sometimes. But adrien is doing okay. And she has a long road ahead of her as do many of the survivors but we will root for her along the way. If you are j...

Here on land. just wondering about the operating depth of the bluefin and how comfortable you are in the water and depth that appears to be underneath the ship right now in the survey area? >> yeah, so as you know, the pings we think are at about 4500, to 5,000 meters down. so pretty deep. also it is a silt bottom. so environmentals are okay right now. the side scan sonar does have enough power to penetrate through the silt a little bit of a layer there. so this is a pretty powerful sonar and ca...

Meters maximum. in the class we were told it could only pick up sounds a mile away from the black box. are you reassessing of how the sounds travel underwater at this point because you are detecting things that are much further apart. >> again, you heard the commodore say the bottom is a silt bottom. that absorbs sound. funny things happen depending on temperature, temperature layer answer so on and so forth. the characteristics of the water, the characteristics of the ocean floor all come in to...