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Much easier to do a visual search if you've got good weather and flat seas. >> in terms of the underwater search, exactly which equipment is going to be deployed today? >> the towed pinger has been deployed today on ocean shield. the search is currently ongoing, and of course, it's not just ocean shield that's doing the search with the towed pinger, but hms echo, the british oceanographic ship, which is coming on a converging course, and it has good equipment for finding things on the floor of the ocean. so those two ships are working together. i'm not familiar with all the equipment that the ...

That and come back at a later stage. >> not even how much australia is spending? >> i think at a future conference i might be able to give you some indicator of how much -- [ inaudible ] >> do you think there could be more towed pinger locaters that can go under water? >> we've got the towed pinger on the australian vessel. but hms echo, the british ship, also has some fairly sophisticated underwater search gear. and we've got a couple other devices that can assist with the search.

Luck. that's the hunt for flight 370 one month in. overnight the search dramatically changed, moving under water off the west coast of australia. >> that area is being pinged because -- picked because on the basis of the analysis and on the six hours of pings we have the exchange between the satellites, the inmarsat state and the aircraft. >> two ships the australian "ocean shield" and the british "hms echo" are scanning a track of deep blue sea around the clock inching along at about two to three miles per hour. they'll eventually converge. the "shield" is equipped with a pinger locator which...

Sophisticated, high-tech equipment. but the devices are designed to be used once a debris field is located and is the search area is dramatically narrowed down. brian todd is here with more on this part of the story. so obviously, there are great limits to what this high-tech underwater equipment can do since they're not even sure they're looking in the right place. >> that's right, wolf. this equipment is very impressive. this towed pinger locater can go 20,000 feet below the surface, can detect the pinger from two miles away, but does have its limitations. still, here's what the chief search...

Ships, including a british vessel that will be conducting what's being called a specific search. also expected to reach the search zone soon, an australian ship that's equipped with u.s. technology to listen for pings from the black boxes. we're also hearing there will be a news conference in the coming hours from the man who is heading up the search effort. kyung lah joins us now with the latest on australia. here we are 28 days into this. what's the latest on today's search effort? >> reporter: today's search effort will have more assets in the area than we've seen. we've heard the prime min...