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The search about this time every day wraps up, at least the aerial search. what is happening today? >> reporter: hi, victor. well, the search for the elusive pings is continuing. as far as we know the ocean shield and the british vessel the "hms echo" continue to comb the waters. efforts by air as well, surveillance planes trying to pick up any pings from the sonar buoys they have deployed out on to the waters. as far as we know it's been silent since tuesday. authorities have long said they want to exhaust this effort. they want to be absolutely certain the black box pinger battery has comple...

The important part is in the preplanning and that's what they were trying to get together in the initial stages of looking for these pings. >> no doubt. >> looking, the example that's been shown than extraordinary. and we're all getting some very interesting lessons in oceanographers and acoustic sounds. what we're seeing at the moment in this very small search area, not the large one but the very confined one, we're seeing the ocean shield go through with the pinger -- towed pinger locator. it does a sweep through and then exit the search area and then hms echo comes in behind it and it's doi...

Tony abbott, over the last couple of days expressing some level of confidence of finding these black boxes. but let me ask you this. how close are they now to finding the airliner's flight recorders? >> reporter: we haven't been given a specific timetable. yesterday the australian prime minister tony abbott saying that it'll likely take some time for them to physically locate the black box. they have 2.8 miles of water to contend with. as you mentioned, he is confident, though. he said that they are looking in the right place. but we're still at the stage of the search in which they're still t...

Let's discuss with our panel now which includes audio expert paul gensburg and jeffrey thomas, managing director of airlineratings.com and david galoo, fabien cousteau and that british guy, michael kay. jeffrey, i want to start with you first. if not now, when? seriously. many people are asking that. jeffrey? >> sorry, john. yeah, look, it's a very good point. and one of the things that we possibly are under playing a little bit here is the role of "hms echo," the graphic ship because that is surveying the bottom with an echo sounder and the bottom as we know is silt and they're hoping for a s...

Prime minister and the head of the search, angus houston, believe are from the flight data recorders. the ocean shield still towing that ping locator on loan from the u.s. navy. also in that little tighter area, where they did get those pings, there's the british ship, the hms echo, which is an oceanographic ship, it has a two-mile wide beam, if you like that it can put down and try to get back information from the ground floor, and see if it can locate any wreckage. no luck so far. don, this is a very long and involved process, and isn't by far over. >> joe johns in kuala lumpur. if and when ...