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There are two main areas of focus at the moment. the one is where the chinese vessel 24 hours ago announced that it had two acoustic events. it found two pings or pulses underneath the ocean in two separate locations, two kilometers apart over a time period. they sent that british ship, the hms echo in order to investigate that, to try and verify it because there has been no verification it's been linked in any way to the malaysian airliner there is a second area as well. that's the australian vessel, the ocean shield, very high-tech equipment there given to or lent to the australian navy by t...

He will just tell you in a press briefing, i don't have anything new. and when i do, i will come out and tell you. >>. no i think he has something to tell us. but he could either tell us that they have detected a signal and that it sounds promising, or that they have detected a signal and they have discounted it. but at least he is giving us an update. everybody knows they have detected a signal and everybody is wondering what they're doing about it. i don't see anything unusual about this press conference at all. but i'm also not expecting any good news in particular. about the chinese ship o...

Operation and cnn's international correspondent matthew chance. matthew, the ship hms echo now on the scene. but it won't be joined by the hms tireless submarine. tell us what is happening right now. >> yeah, well, that's because there are a number of different search areas, four search areas in fact, according to the british ministry of defense that are the focus of the ongoing multinational search operation at the moment. in two of those locations, they've got actual acoustic events that they're investigating. one of those is where the hms echo is and where the chinese vessels that detected ...

Me just like an emergency locator beacon. >> reporter: search crews are cautiously optimistic. >> certainly we're jumping to conclusions here. we need to reacquire the signal to confirm that it is the aircraft. >> reporter: the task now? the "ocean shield" is trying to find the signal again and hoping for confirmation. if the ping is detected again, crews will launch this underwater drone. it can scan the ocean water and take photos of any potential debris. at the same time, 375 miles away, chinese ships and the british "hms echo" are trying to confirm pings that the chinese briefly detected o...

Eventually you would see things washing up. and i think the currents are generally moving in that area. but it's still going to take some time. so if you have a lot of time, you might start doing some beach combing. >> but we're talking about that. think about it. when you said close to australia, how many -- what is it, like 1200 miles, 1300 miles or so off the coast of australia? >> about 1100, 1200 miles at the moment. >> so that would take a while to wash up. here is something from tamara says okay, so if we found more than one potential ping, how long will it take, roll the prompter up, p...