the signal strength will become less which means that the range will start to decrease. >> okay. the detection range starts to decrease. all important information. so i want our panel to ask you some questions, jeff, but first, let's go ahead and get their take on these latest developments. with us now cnn aviation correspondent richard quest, analyst miles o'brien, and cnn an looalyst david gallow is on phone with us. at the director of special projects at woods hole oceanic institution. what do you make about these pulses the chinese state media is reporting about. we sort of learned not to really get our hopes up, but this is something of particular interest, right? >> well, yeah. i think we're all a bit guarded about getting our hopes up too much, but so far the information that we have fits the skrig description of what we would expect. even the bit about them coming and going because it's fairly deep water. the water depth is between 2,000