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>> yeah, i think so. it's a -- i think it's like a maritime order. when you have a ship in trouble you go help it. this is not under that order but i think that this is where the united states is proven to be available for whatever it's needed for, even if there were only a few people involved in that plane. >> what joe's piece in the story didn't mention is these are mainly military assets being used and as a former military pilot, what do you think of that, mikey? >> i think it's the best equipment for the job, don. when you look at the state of the art technology like the p-8 that only init...

Yards off the ocean floor and with an expensive and highly sensitive piece of equipment like this, you don't want it colliding with things, getting stuff and losing valuable time. that's whey thooy they're waiti that and focusing on the work on the surface. the ships like the hms echo. what it can do is give them a better picture before they start, wolf, of what they're taking pictures of so hopefully when they put the bluefin down there, it can be the most productive. because the big production to get it into the water and get it out safely, they don't want to lose any of that time through ba...

20,000 feet. >> yeah. the advantage of these buoys, the sonobuys is they can hang just below the thermolayer. above that you can block the sound because the density of the water is different. these can be very quiet. there's no ship at all. these have no ship attached. they are dropped by an airplane and that's fantastic. just perfect quiet. >> the quiet is an important part of this, mary, because we have the "ocean shield" which obviously has been taking the lead in trying to track the pings and further pings. we've also been told the hms echo was going to be moved into that area. i found tha...

Plane. it landed in the water down here listening for pings, only listening, not pinging itself. these are only the passive, only the listeners back up at the top is the antenna and it sends it back up to where the airplane is. this is marine traffic.com. we have heard all about these ships out there. we can finally show you one. here is is a live picture of what ocean shield has done over the past 12 hours. it is here going back and forth over this. i have measured this square, about 47 square miles. the hms echo is in the area, it's over here still kind of staying out of the way. this is the...

More before they run out. this is day 34 for the batteries on the locaters. they are meant to last 30 days or so. so they are running down. the more pings they can narrow the search down. they have the ship out there towing it around. interestingly we were on a website that tracks ships a few moments ago and saw a british ship the "hms echo," it is a ocean ship that can map the bottom if you like. it is headed in that direction which is interesting. we havent heard anything official on that. they might be looking at the ocean floor. that part of the indian ocean we know more about the moon's s...