Us along with our panel as we watch this, the idea this search might have to be stopped for a given length of time, its not something we certainly have never heard of. We heard that before with air France Flight 447, that the flight had already been found. But were way early on that. Were not i dont think for a moment were going to be talking about stopping at any time soon. Remembering the Southern Hemisphere winter, its coming into fall now, then winter will be coming along shortly. I think were some way off. Id be very surprised if hes going to announce hes bringing friends home tomorrow. Absolutely once winter arrives in the Southern Hemisphere and depths of winter, you wont find them going out. It would be too dangerous with the planes and it would be fruitless. They will do what they did with 447, regroup and look at the evidence and set up a new plan for where theyre going to start. David, i mean, can this
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and the size and the speed of so many assets being deployed so quickly. the different ships with their rovs, their installed sonars were coming from militaries, from the commercial side, different countries. they brought in p-8 poseidons and p-3s. these are anti-submarine aircraft. if you drop a series of sonobuoys in the water and they detect activity, you can use that detection to triangulate exactly where that activity is. i have been on lot of salvage operations and it absolutely is a needle in a haystack. but you use all your resources and use all this amazing data, whether it s the oceanographers that tell you what the prevailing currents are, whether it s the sonobuoys, all that different information is chipping away at that haystack. the smaller the haystack gets, the easier it is to find that
reliable potential contact with the missing submarine? jim, i think that i would agree with the coast guard captain who said sthey don t knw exactly what they have. they are all out there looking at it and we could put conjecture into it, but if they knew for sure that it was someone banging on a hull with an s.o.s., they would have told us. so i think right now the answer is for us out here, they really don t know what they have. and that is important for expectations management. but it is apparently the best they have. so you have this indicator here, indeterminate one. you throw everything you can at it. what is the stage now? you are still going to be listening with what are effectively sub hunting aircraft, the p-3s and p-8s, there is also side scan sonar going out there. can you search the area twice the size of connecticut quickly
the maritime industry and he has been watching the launching of this rescue attempt and all of the resources going out there to the titanic wreckage area. and he said he has never seen anything like that, he s never seen something move this quickly. it is impressive to see. in port at least until the two ships left, you could tell it was palpable the sense that those c-17s were on the ground at the airport here, they were prepping the ship here, they were moving it out. the coast guard vehicle ship left earlier today as well. you could sense the urgency in the actions that were happening here, the p-3s, poseidon planes that are usually sub hunters listening, they are on back to back rotations as well as c-130s looking at the surface. it is possible that this sub is
something of this size which is to say not all that large, the submersible, as long as you can find it. that remains the key question to this point. and back when we started this, what are the search assets. first c-130s, used in the surface of the water. long-range abilities to keep searching an area the size of connecticut. by later today, air national guard c 1-30 will conduct a search over the area. we would have committed consider-130s to flights. in addition to that the navy has been in touch with the coast guard and is working to provide personnel, such as subject matter experts and assets as quickly as possible. the canadian coast guard has also dedicated. p-8s and p-3s.