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Ship, an oceanography ship, the hms echo. it's going to work with the ocean shield to look at the ocean floor. it casts a two-mile wide echo ping down to the ocean floor, hoping to get a ping back from the wreckage. so it's a big development to get that out there to help the ocean shield while other ships are looking for wreckage several hundred miles away where expert says it might have drifted. erin? >> thank you very much to you, michael. those first planes out of the gate are from new zealand tonight. we're going to be joined by the commander in charge of the search live in a moment. i wan...

Absolutely certain that the battery has completely run out. as you mentioned on tuesday, the signals they detected, noticeably weaker than the signals detected on saturday. now, it's also interesting to note that one of our producers taking a look at at marine traffic monitoring website noticed that the british vessel, the hms echo was moving in the direction of the ocean shield. we reached out to authorities here in perth for more information on that. we have been unable to confirm officially those movements so far. but it's interesting because that british vessel is equipped with mapping tec...

Haven't been some changes made. >> reporter: the search area surrounding the ocean shield continues to intensify. the british ship, hms echo, has pulled out of its position to the southwest and is now focusing where the pings have been detected. but crews continue to listen for even more pings to shrink the search zone. a smaller zone is necessary. the underwater vehicle can only search 40 square miles a day. that means the roughly 500-square-mile area where the pings were detected over a span of three days would take nearly two weeks for bluefin to search. and today, u.s. navy supply ship joi...

>> the last thing you want to do is introduce another noise source in the area where you are trying to listen carefully and the auv will produce noise. it's not uncommon to get false signals from any equipment that might be producing noise whether it is on the ship, the auv or perhaps something in the tpl itself. you want to make sure you are keeping random noise out of the search area. >> geoffrey, do you concur? >> absolutely. the matter is the pingers can cover six times the area that the bluefin-21 can. they want to be certain they max out on the possibility ies of t batteries being live a...

Explanation of what happened after the boeing 777 turned west and crossed over the malaysian peninsula. malaysian sources tell cnn the plane disappeared from military radar for about 120 nautical miles, indicating that it might have dipped to an altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. and wolf, a dozen planes and a dozen ships will again be scouring the ocean. the "ocean shield," the vessel that has been towing the ping locator has been joined by a british naval ship in the area where the pings were heard. it's called the "hms echo" and is trying to find signs of wreckage below. there are other...