Toft Ocean News Today

China plans to send out ships to try to find this new object. In the meantime, the search for those other two pieces of or these other objects, i should say, goes on. Were talking about six planes scouring the area for a third day today. No traces were found, however. They came back, at least a kouchl couple of the planes, and found nothing significant. Weather is deteriorating though in the search area. Australian official says the operation going to continue despite that. Also multinational fl...

So grateful to have your company this saturday morning. im christi paul. >> im victor blackwell. were calling it breaking news this morning from china. chinas has released satellite photographs showing a large object floating -- here it is -- floating if the southern indian ocean. >> this is 74 feet by 43 feet were being told. seen about 75 miles from where previous satellite im mamgs spotted two other large objects in the ocean there. china is planning, we should point out, to send out ships to...

First of all, it can reach depps up of 6,000 meters or more than 3 1/2 miles below the surface. and it can survey wide swaths of the ocean floor using whats called side scan sonar. >> they send a sound pulse with a fan beam out to the side and it will travel out almost half a mile from the vehicle. and it bounces off the seafloor and we get a reflection back to the vehicle. >> they call the process mowing the lawn because it works its assigned grid back and forth before returning to the surface ...

Image of the object four days ago. ships are headed to the area to continue the search. if we find ourselves in a worse case scenario and investigators need to find a plane at the bottom toft ocean, technology could play a key part in the search and recovery. this robot submarine may hold the key to finding malaysia airlines 370. its called the remis 6,000 and developed by the oceanographic institution. it ways almost a 1rton and cost almost $2.5 million. >> they can go up and down mountains tha...

About. could be a family member, were running late, it could be anything. it could be somebody in china who is going to be meeting the plane when they land and have dinner together or breakfast together or something. so the pilots report that they often make these last-minute calls because once that door shuts and theyre airborne theyre going to be in there oh, the cockpit, for six, seven, eight hours and unable to talk to other friends or family on the ground. >> bobbie, what would you say are ...

Earlier, it is more likely that a pair of eyes are going to again identify something floating in the ocean and much of the detection equipment on board the aircraft. >> let me bring our panel back in, joined by cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes in washington and nick castaldo, spent 20 years at the if, aa and retired navy captain and diver bobbie scoley. bobbie, ill start with you, if you were in charge of finding this airplane, what would you be doing right now? >> id be doing pretty much...

To do the trick here, many people believe. because they have to get up close. they have to see exactly what it is and whether theres even some remote chance that its part of the airplane or just some debris floating through the ocean. >> barbara, we know theres been a lot of shared resources here and u.s. military undersea technology is, as i understand it, possibly the next step to try to find something? >> yeah, you know, youre right. defense secretary chuck hagel at the malaysian minister of ...

You get very windy conditions. and so thats what were going to be dealing with over the next 48 hours. this is our cnn exclusive high resolution model. we are tracking a cold front that is going to sweep through the area where they are searching. this is sunday, 8:30 eastern time. so as we get close to nightfall on sunday, near australia, we are going to see that cold front move through. it is going to bring showers to the area but not only that, its also going to increase the winds. that just a...

Oceans currents to zero in on the planes data recorder, finding it among those peaks and valleys could be even harder still. >> if its in one of the deeper channels, thats going to be more of a challenge. >> right now the focus though is on finding nose floating ones and a lot of that really depends on the weather. all the waves were forecast to die down a bit as the search party headed out in australia on saturday morning, searchers now el us they were met with dense fog when they did head out....

Freighter containers. they could be masses of garbage thats just drifted together. they could be anything. and then were just back to zero again. >> and i understand there is some difficulty obviously where this part of the ocean is in terms of the search efforts. earlier this week i was looking at underwater robots that may be used in this search. is that something that you think could be deployed here? could that help? >> those underwater search systems can be deployed but not at this point. u...