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And we're told one of these microphones picked up what they believe could be a signal from an in flight data recorder. they need to check it out. that's why there's data analysis that will be happening through the overnight hours in perth. we also got a new tidbit of new info. we know the british ship, the "hms echo" that was with the chinese ship that thought they heard something, they cleared that area. the british ship is moving to join the "ocean shield." we know that ship will be in the area as well listening to see if they can get a lock on more possible signals. a lot to follow here, ca...

Feet under water but only works for eight hours. schl onobuoys were not designed for this kind of mission. >> the ones that i'm familiar with generally have very poor response to frequencies as high as 37 kilohertz. they are more for detecting mechanical signals from submarines, 1 kilohert or lower. >> reporter: the search continues to intensify. the british ship "hms echo" 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...

Four, half a dozen more pings to start to narrow that search area down from the 500 square miles that rene reported it currently is. >> and, rene, you're there for us still. what are you hearing from your sources right now? do they anticipate that, you know, the next few hours they're going to be able to announce maybe there have been some more pings? >> you know, at this point, we don't know if there have been any more pings. we do know that hms echo now in the vicinity, wolf. we know that it has the capability of listening as well. it has passive sonar. also has the ability to map the ocean ...

[ inaudible ] >> i understand there's been no further detections in the area where the chinese vessel assisted by hms echo, which is an oceanographic vessel from the royal navy. i believe they haven't made any further detections. in terms of the analysis of the signals that it picked up, i'll come back to you on that. i'm not sure where we are at with that. i haven't had any advice that the analysis is complete at this stage. >> when you began this search and looking at the odds, the size of the ocean, the size of the search area, what do you think the chances are that you would make an announ...

Week ago now was the final set of calculations done off the inmarsaf satellite, hand shake pings we heard about. this was the seventh calculus they've done on this after, you know, bringing more radar down from various countries that had tracked this airplane in southeast asia. and they drew up this flight path and they sent ocean shield and hms echo, the british ship, to trod along this line. this is where they found the pings. and interestingly, according to inmarsat, the exact location where the ocean shield is detecting these pins is where they calculated was the final handoff, the final h...