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David kelly, president and ceo of blue fin robotics the company that makes the submarine that effectively will be used to look for debris, and thomas atsheler is the vice president of the company that makes the pingers as well as the equipment that the chinese were using to hear the pinger sounds earlier on, before this even larger find this weekend. so let me start with you, if i can, tom, and that is the tpl-25, this remarkable piece of equipment the u.s. navy has supplied which has effectivel...

Rep rate. so thats already going in our face. they also heard two of them. there l two pinger, out there. one for the cockpit voice recorder. so thats good. they listened to one of them for more than an hour, which is really great -- >> two, two hours. >> -- so theyre not just jumping to conclusions, they must be fairly strongly certain this is the black boxes. >> two hours, the remarkable nature of this is not only did they have the two hours of straight listening but when they turned the ship ...

>> yeah, david is here. >> david gallo. >> hello. >> david, while youre talking, were just looking at the picture of the video of the chinese sailors putting the hydrophone into the water. give me your thoughts on the sort of rather rudeimentary way in which its being done for sophistication of finding a black box. >> first, you know, the tpl-25 which weve all been hearing about for a week or more, is a towed system designed to be towed deep in the ocean. this one obviously they had on the end o...

Information, but i am hopeful, as i am sure that all of the families are, and everybody wants to get to the bottom of this and understand what happened. so finding the recorders is a very important piece of that, and we need to know what was heard, how long it was heard and what type of signal to better understand if it is the locator beacons themselves. >> and sure. and the analysts are saying perhaps, and also expressing some hope as you are. renee, you are learning new information about the c...

Zone were told has been similar, relatively calm seas, which was good for search crews today, because they werent distracted by those white caps on the waves. white caps that could easily be mistaken for possible debris floating in the water. even though the visual season is over for the day and planes from a number of different countries flying back to the air base in perth, we know the underwater search, the s.o.n.a.r., is going to be active 24/7. their u.s. navy towed pinger locater behind th...

Underwater vehicles to actually find it. and they never did find the black box with pingers or anything else. they found it by seeing pieces of the debris down there and literally working their way through. youre right, they had a debris field. they had a search zone. that makes a huge difference. >> so christine, if were talking about a diminishing signal, as i understand it, the black boxes just dont stop one day. they just get weaker and weaker and weaker. like a flashlight. eventually dimmin...

Those people who are out there, with no land to tie up to and no stability, waiting to continue this now underwater search, i wonder if this is the right time. because all along, we have been told it isnt until we find something concrete. some evidence. but do they have any other options? >> well, at this point, they are doing the best they can within the search. they keep narrowing it down, which is a good thing. but theyre also very carefully monitoring the sea state so they can get the tpl in...

And they want to get it on site, not because they have any reasonable expectation that it could locate the black box at this point, correct? >> reporter: absolutely. the first thing they have to do is find some debris from the plane. if they can just find even one piece, then theyll be able to trace it back, figure out approximately where the plane went down, and then they can bring out that tpl-25, that towed pinger locator, but until they have that debris, they really cant deploy it. and so, t...

. welcome become. im brooke baldwin. i am watching special coverage of flight 370. the ocean shield may be close to 350 feet long, but this is a small underdog compared to the vast ocean. the ocean shield is the australian ship carrying crucial high tech equipment towards the search zone. remember this is a massive search area still even though they are honing in on this particular part of the world. this is more than 100,000 square miles. against all oughdds it will dep the tpl 25. here are t...

Equipment on it. until you have a debris field, you cant use this equipment. if becomes part of the regular fleet. >> you have learned about the equipment. the ships and the tpl and everything that is beingful involved, malaysia asked for more resources to find the plane. will they get them? >> certainly doesnt appear they will be losing any resources. we dont know if there will be more ships or planes coming in, but if this past week is any indication. resources will only increase. we heard fro...