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And never give up. >> the ocean shield heads out to sea in hopes of finding debris. as cnn sits down with australia's prime minister. >> this is a very, very difficult task. nevertheless, we are giving it the very best shot we can. if anyone can find this aircraft, it's us. >> reporter: how long can this be sustained realistically? >> the effort is ramping up, not winding down. >> it is now a race against the clock as the battery life fades on those last boxes. >> both of those devices have been emitting a ping for several weeks. we believe they only have about a week of battery life left. l...

The area where we do find debris, it will be a little easier to reverse-engineer where they came from. because this part of the ocean isn't as violent as further south in the old search area. so oceanographers will have a better idea of how to really reverse engineer all of the currents and probably get us into a pretty good area where we may find the main debris field. but again, that's a big if, as you said, you know. we have to find at least a tell-tale sign of this airplane first. >> absolutely. and again, if we were able to do that by finding debris or at least parts of the plane, what wo...

Anymore. >> geoffrey, in your estimation, given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they weren't specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photographs yesterday. these debris items were spotted in total by about five aircraft. the photos are bein...

Given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they weren't specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photographs yesterday. these debris items were spotted in total by about five aircraft. the photos are being analyzed overnight in australia, and we ...

Ocean, they had the area defined to 40 square miles, 40 square miles. right now i think it's something like 97,000 square miles, something like that. >> right. >> so they had it narrowed down to 40 square miles. they had people on-site one day later picking up pieces of the plane positively identified nape recovered bodies from the ocean. they knew where it impacted and i'll stit took two years to search and locate for the wreckage and recover the black boxes. two years. >> remarkable. we're talking about an ocean which has greater depth and currents compared to that of the atlantic where that...