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Operation. she said that it is moving because that, at the moment, is the most promising lead. she also noted everyone pretty much has discounted the detections of the chinese vessel made over the weekend. as for what exactly it is going to be doing when it arrives, she said that is unclear. she said at the moment the "ocean shield" is taking the lead in this operation. worth noting of course that the "hms echo" is equipped with sophisticated sound-detecting equipment and technology that would enable it to map the ocean floor. at the moment we do not have any information or any sort of confirm...

I want go to perth, australia, the base of the operation of the search. michael holmes is on the scene with more. what's the latest there, michael? >> reporter: yeah, we're going to have the search planes out again. more than a dozen of them, wolf. they'll be leaving in the sectithefection few hours. also, those ships, again, are going to be scouring the ocean today. something rene mentioned is really interesting. ocean shield joined now, we reported this to you yesterday, that it was headed to the ocean shield area. the search area where they've been getting these pings. now, hms echo, it's a...

Is getting down here to use what is called synthetic appature sonar. the big question is what is happening up on the surface. rough waters may get hard to deploy, hard to recover. they want to do a lot of mapping up there like with the "hms echo" to figure out what they are dealing with before they throw the expensive robots into the water to start searching. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. let's bring in our panel. jacque is a maritime explorer and miles o'brien is a correspondent for pbs news hoho. let's talk about the type of equipment that is on the echo

Well, a spokesperson from the british ministry of defense tells me that the "hms echo," which is a british vessel, is currently on its way to join the australian vessel, the "ocean shield." she said that it's going there because the "ocean shield" currently has the most promising leads in this search. she also said that they have managed to discount those signals detected by the chinese vessel over the weekend. as for what it's going to be doing when it gets there, she said she wasn't sure, that the "ocean shield" at the moment taking the lead in this search. it's worth noting that the "hms ec...

But it's worth saying that the "hms echo" has sophisticated sound-detecting equipment, but it's also capable of mapping the sea floor. officials here in australia are not commenting on this development in the search at the moment, but not saying whether or not this might signal perhaps a new stage of this search. for all we know, as you say, the "ocean shield" is currently out there, equipped with that american towed pinger locator, scouring the waters, trying to detect more signals from this black box pinger. and angus houston, who's the man, the chief coordinator behind this multinational se...