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Was probably a surprise to them when they realized, wow, this is deeper than we thought. >> i want to go back to perth, jeffrey thomas is joining us from perth, editor in chief of airlineratings.com. what's the latest you're hearing as far as this underwater search is going on? you're there on the scene, jeffrey. >> reporter: indeed, wolf. look, the way it's been described to me is that this first mission that was aborted, this is more of a shakedown mission to see what the operating environment is at the very bottom. echo has actually been in the area for quite some time, over a week, and it ...

Deep, about three miles, and has a pretty sophisticated series of sonar and what's called a multi-beam echo sounding that gives you a clear picture of the c-4. the problem with that is that it's relatively slow. it only goes about, you know, two to four knots when it's searching so you have to have a very, very specific area to look at for it to be useful. >> yeah. >> there's the problem, right? i also understand a tow pinger locator is in australia. it won't get to the search area for at least another week. will that be too late? >> well, if the battery on the black box or the flight data rec...