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To cover the entire search area, so this is a laborious process. you mentioned the oil slick? that was found in the general search area where that australian ship, the "ocean shield" has been towing the ping locator. they've taken a 2-liter sample of that, brought it back here to perth in western australia. it will take a couple of days to analyze it. they're not sure whether it's related or not. and finally, the other headline out of that briefing was that they're probably going to be scaling down the sea and air search for debris, which was taking place several hundred miles further west of ...

It a few more days in case something should happen and then begin the process of switching out from this towed pinger locater to the sonar mapping to begin the laborious process of mapping this area. logically they begin where they got the great two and a half hour pinging event because that's the strongest card they have in the deck. and they'll probably begin the search out from there and then the question becomes, how long do you keep this aerial search up? that's an open question. >> all right. captain gurley, last word on what you see happening potentially this week. >> completely agree w...

Particular have to understand this. and i hope they're being well informed about the realities of this, that, you know, we're talking about as if this device could be used every day consecutively. there's a lot of weather concerns, there's technical problems, you know, for every day that they get -- they're under water, they lose a day for various reasons. so, it's a slow, laborious process. and it's not going to happen as quickly as we all hope. >> yeah. and do you worry that while you have a dozen countries that are committed right now that as time elapsed, many of those countries will simpl...

Optimistic, keep finding this stuff and going out there and checking it out, each piece. so i am optimistic that we're still finding things. >> miles, you know, we also learned that they're going to head out today with a pinger locater onboard an australian ship. it's going to take three days to get out to that search zone. that signal is going to fade in a week or so if it hasn't faded already. is it too much to say that locating the pinger could be our last chance for a long time to find this plane? >> i don't think that's too much to say. because if there isn't any luck hearing those pings ...

Thing. that will get you not to the haystack but maybe the farm. some drift models and debris might be able to reverse engineer and get to the site. but it's still an awfully big ocean. without that pinging noise, it's all going to rely on visual inspections which is a very laborious process. all of this is coming up and we're coming up on winter. so this might be a mystery that will endure for quite some time. >> captain taylor, just in practical terms, we've got these satellite images from sunday. so we're now wednesday night-thursday morning, is that right, in perth. so four days later, giv...