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Shield" and "hms echo" are inching along at 2 to 3 miles per hour. "the ocean shield" is equipped with a pinger locator which is towed behind the vessel. it detects pings from the plane's black box's in water in as deep as 20,000 feet. but this specific mission could be futile. the manufacturers of the black box tells cnn they were due for a maintenance overhaul and new batteries in 2012 but they were never returned for the fix. now, that could mean three things, malaysia airlines replaced the old pingers, had the maintenance done some place else or had outdated pingers. if they were outdated,...

However, we're only hearing a report of one ping. we know that the two beacons ping independently and not at the same time. it could be that only one pinger is working. or both are working but one is many miles away. all of that said, also, fred, it's possible that this is a false positive. we heard one expert saying, gallo, saying earlier today that air france 447, their equipment had a false positive. we know that hms echo, the british ship, this week they also reported a false positive. so to go back to your original question, could this really be the black boxes? it's really hard to say at...

Years. and then as you play with technology, can move much further along larger, more batteries and lower frequency and last multiple years and ranges that are 10 to 20 kilometers. >> so glad you showed it to us and your skype came back. thank you, chad myers. thank you, and to you the viewers, for being with us this hour. have a good weekend. my colleague, wolf blitzer, starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. the search for malaysia airlines flight 370 has gone under water and it's now a race against time. crews are trying t...

Information that came in through last night i do not have any significant developments. >> the hms echo we understand is now conducting a specific search, we're told. what exactly does that mean, a specific search? and why now? do they have any information that's letting them close in on a certain area? >> well, right now we are making the best judgment call we can based on the life running out of the black box. so the echo is out there. we also moved the ocean shield with cooperation with the australian government that has the tpl, the towed pinger locater and the blue scan the sonar side. so...

Commander in charge says it's basically like walking the ocean surface. they're doing it with that tow ping locater. it takes a long time. but wolf, they are working at this 24/7 for the next 10 to 12 days. i think, you know, the most disconcerting thing is that the commander himself describes it as a shot in the dark. the point is, wolf, it's got about 150-mile track. you've got the "hmsecho" in one direction, they will converge, it will take a few days. they are hoping that they are lucky and they will still hear those pingers from beneath the ocean surface. but right now they're telling us ...