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>> reporter: matthew's team is on the ocean shield using a towed pinger locator or tpl, listening for flight 370's black boxes. >> what i would like to do before i absolutely say with certainty that it is the aircraft, is one reacquire the signal, two deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle with the side scan sonar, and three, switch out that sonar with the camera unit and take photographs of what would be the wreckage. >> slow and tedious work, nearly 15,000 feet, almost three miles down. the extreme depth pushing the limits of the underwater drone. >> certainly we're jumping to conclusions ...

Search crews are working around the clock trying to find the source of two mysterious pings. the question is are they from the missing plane. these signals are on the same unique frequency as pings emitted from black box recorders and both are unique which is what we would expect. one on the flight data recorder and the other from the cockpit voice recorder. >> what i would like to do before i say with certainty that it is the aircraft is one reacquire the signal. two deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle to map the debris field and three, switch out that sonar with a camera unit to take ph...

We have work to do before we can say we have a true contact here. >> reporter: matthews' team is on the "ocean shield" using a tp lfrnlts listening for pings from mh370's black boxes. over the weekend they heard two promising signals in the southern indian ocean, one held for more than two hours. >> what i would like to do before i say with certainty it is the aircraft is, one, reacquire the signal, two, deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle to map the debris field and switch out that sonar with a camera unit and take photographs of what would be the wreckage. >> reporter: slow and tedious ...

Camera unit and take photographs of what would be the wreckage. >> slow and tedious work, nearly 15,000 feet almost three miles down. the extreme depth pushing the limits of the underwater drone, the blue fin 21 that would do a visual search for wreckage. >> certainly we're jumping to conclusions. we need to reacquire the signal. >> their biggest obstacle? time. the black box batteries are rated for 30 days, a deadline that's already passed. >> cautious measured optimism. we certainly want to reacquire it before we say yes we have done something good here. >> caution definitely a keyword. if y...