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How seriously do authorities take these reports? >> reporter: well, i think right now the right answer to that would be they're working to gain an understanding of this pe technology, until they have thatful understanding they can't assess what their level of confidence is. this is in an interesting area. right smack-dab in the middle of this newly refined search zone right on this arc that we've shown you where the satellite data seems to indicate that this plane may have gone down. so clearly significant enough to send the "hms echo" to this area with its sonar technology to try to get a bet...

Detection. so that is why "hms echo" and "australian defense vessel ocean shield" which has special equipment which will be useful in these circumstances are proceeding to the location of the chinese ship. now all the data this becomes available to the authorities is obviously looked at very closely. but at the moment, at the moment, the data we have does not provide a means of verification. we have to -- we have to do further investigation on the site itself. and that is why all of these resources are being moved to that particular location. >> so then can you tell -- >> well, i think we just...

So we obviously have to investigate it fully and we will do that and we will let you know at the completion of the process what the outcome is. i mean, we're not going to hide anything from any of you. >> if i can ask you, how long do you believe it will take for the hms echo and ocean shield to be to get in position and investigate this further and is this location within that southern sector that you've now defined as being a more credible lead as to when the flight went down? >> yes. in answer to your last question, yes, the area is in the high probability area, yes. the second thing is in ...

In 2009 it passed right over the box from flight 447 in the atlantic. in that case the pinger locater failed to find the pinger. they said that's because the pinger had broken off from the black box. it might have been damaged. three other cases success, egypt air crash in the atlantic in 1999 and air crash of adam air jet off indonesia. the black boxes were found by search areas were small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and still a long shot. >> we have nothing to use. it's a better shot on the indian ocean. >> an official from the manufacturer expresses confidence telling us if that ping...

There. you'll have to correct me if i'm wrong. the haixun that found -- the chinese ship that's a very sophisticated ship with a lot of sophisticated technology. not necessarily what they've shown us by video. it was one that depicted these pings. also the ocean shield that is about 24 hours away. the hms echo, another ship that is now there as matthew just reported a couple hours on site. and there's also a hms tireless. the nuclear submarine. we don't exactly know where it is, do we? >> yeah. we're not really supposed to know where submarines go. they're very covert. very secretive. they do ...