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That we made before now it's two miles and they seem like just as cautiously optimistic. what am i missing? >> well, you know, i'm with you. if you got the pings and the pings really were from the black boxeses and they have two different ones so it would be from the two black boxes and certainly they recorded the latitude and longitude of where they were when they got the pings and they had them for one of them for two hours, so to go back there, but they tell us, the oceanographers, tell us at even at a three-mile radius, the ocean is a big place, it's going to take a while to map the ocean ...

That one location, which is the north side of a feature called the wallaby plateau. i think that's a great place to start in an underwater map. they should work outwards instead of worrying about how big that area can be. >> what do you make of the discrepancy and frequency? the numbers keep getting all scrambled up in my head. but it was 37.5 and it's 33.3 or something along tohose lines. the frequency it was supposed to be from the manufacturer, what they were picking up yesterday, not the same thing. does that trouble you or does that seem like something in the realm of possibility given th...

Pings detected by the ocean shield ship were actually at 33.3 kilohertz. that's a lower frequency than 37.5 kilohertz. does this mean this can't be the plane or is there some other explanation and it still could be? >> it definitely still could be. what you have with the pinger frequency can be affected by temperature of the water, the depth, the pressure, the current and actually the battery life and actual orientation of the pinger on the floor. all those could affect it. so definitely could be. >> chris, just to follow. we were told that the batteries on these beacons would be out of juice ...

The 33.3 megahertz frequency, that's a big problem. it may be explainable do to some of these factors that bill nye was talking about. it may not be. we have the fact that we had over false positives in recent days. and i want to bring us something that someone mentioned to me in an e-mail, but i haven't heard mention on air. there's a simple math problem that if the ship is pulling the tow fish along at 3 knots and the tow fish can detect the signal within two miles, basically, you wouldn't expect it to retain a signal for two hours. there seems to be a fundamental mathematical problem right ...

The original immarcet pings. it's the seventh recalculation used by bringing in more evidence on the radar tracking of this aeroplane. and the location is exactly on this track that the ships were told to go and have a look at. so there's some supporting evidence that, yes, they are the black boxes. >> we listened to this press conference live from angus houston, paul. you were optimistic about this, but now cnn is hearing that the frequency detected was 33.3 kilohertz, not 37.5. do you still believe that these are, in fact, the pingers, and is it an exact match? is 33 that close to 37? >> oka...