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Satellite images, all of those turned out to be "other things." our matthew chance is live in perth, australia, for us this morning. matthew, i know that they have a submarine, and then they also have two ships that are equipped with this high-tech gear out on the search now. what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the latest is that this subsurface phase of the search operation has really gotten under way with the presence of that british nuclear submarine the "hms tireless." it's equipped with underwater detection technology, but also with two surface vessels as well. again, one...

Kilometers, why is the towed pinger locater being launched in that area specifically? i know the hms echo is also involved. >> that area has been picked because on the basis of the analysis, and as you know, it's on the basis that the six hours of pings we have the exchange between the satellite and the aircraft on an hourly basis. and then there was an additional ping where we think the aircraft might have run out of fuel. on that and on an incredible amount of work that's gone on in terms of how the aircraft might have been flown, how it might have performed, a lot of simulation work by vari...

In perth. 2:00 in the morning. where you are, we hear about ground-breaking analytical research here and honing in on the search zone. how exactly did they do that? >> reporter: they, once again, went back to those pings from the mr satellites. they had made this calculation, remember, brooke, so many days we were looking at a northern arc and a southern arc. now at the bottom end of the southern, 150 miles, you have the ocean spray on one end, and the hms echo, a british ship on the other end. they will converge on the line. it's a shot in the dark as you said. the u.s. navy commander leading...

Mh-370. using the towed pinger locater from the united states navy, on the australian defense vessel ocean shield and a similar capability on hms echo, the two ships will search a single 240 kilometer track converging on each other. of course, if you want to get into more detail about that, i have the commodore to assist me and will take any questions on that subject. the australian frigate has been tasked to assist with the search. it will take approximately four days to reach the search area. and as i mentioned yesterday, the malaysian frigate will arrive in the search area at 1800 tomorrow.

Language we're we heard today. the new british vessel the hms echo we're told will be conducting a specific search today. what does that mean? this about a specific location? if so what are they looking for? >> reporter: that's a little unclear. we're hoping to learn much more about what the hms echo will be doing during that news conference with angus houston. what we do know is that the search is going to generally be in the area that it was yesterday. it is being divided into three specific locations of concentration. that's where they're going to be looking today. >> kyung there, has been ...