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Good evening, richard. good to have you back. i want to start with you, michael holmes first. despite a lack of concrete evidence, searchers seem to be getting more and more positive they are looking in the right area. why is that? >> yeah, because that's where the pings were. they really focused down the search area, don. we are hearing from people involved in this search at high levels that they feel they are on top of it. they are in the right area and they are hoping for good news. as you said, four days now completed. we have had the data back from all four of those dives by bluefin-21. n...

Good to have you back. i want to start with you, michael holmes first. despite a lack of concrete evidence, searchers seem to be getting more and more positive they are looking in the right area. why is that? >> yeah, because that's where those pings were, and they've really focused down the search area, don, and we are hearing from people involved in this search at high levels that they are confident. they feel they're on top of it. they are in the right area and they are hoping for good news. as you said, four dives now completed. we have had the data back from all four of those dives by blu...

Region of 110 or 45 square kilometers, 145 miles in the trip so far. significantly they have gone below the 4500-meter mark. the bluefin doing its job. let's keep this in context. this is still very early in the search by the bluefin-21. they want to give it a little bit of time and cover that area and they're working their way through it now. like i said, we are just hearing word those in charge of the search are confident. they feel they are in the right place, don. >> all right. michael holmes in perth. michael, thank you very much. nic, despite the positive assessment the reality is the se...