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Area. you can see it here on the map. this is where the australian ship was. there's also a chinese ship that had pinger locator data. they're not as confident in that. we're going to stick with what we're hearing from the australians using the quilt right now. they're bothing that area. two hours. and then had to turn around which is is a massive process. and then several minutes to try to re-establish it. if they can narrow down that search area, then they can use underwater subs to map the ocean bottom. we'll take you through that and the flight path and speculation that we will test. we'll...

Operations and submersibles specialist. colonel michael kay, former uk military pilot and cnn aviation analyst. tim, you've joined the panel since the last hour. and you've brought with you a very significant prop. better known as an auv. explain how this is significant in what's happening on the other side of the world. >> actually, this is more than a prop. it is an actual auv. it just is a shallow water version. when we talk shallow water we're talking 200 meters, 650 feet. so it will actually go down on its own and it will use its side scan to map the ocean bottom. >> effectively what we'r...

Wreckage. but here's the thing, without an above-water debris field or a piece of plane debris, experts say the underwater assets are a shot in the dark. but darkness they can handle since they don't rely on visual sightings or satellite imagery. they can work around the clock. we talk about this high-tech co tools to begin this undersea search. cnn's rosa flores is on the ship with the look at the high-tech search equipment. >> reporter: unmanned probes like this have searched the ocean for plane wreckage before. it took years of sweeping the ocean bottom, but it found a downed plane, carryin...

Would make sense given the way this led up to the equipment that is there. >> they may be searching the ocean bottom but that clock is ticking. there may be only four or five days left before the battery of the pingers emitting that sound from the black boxes dries up. so there's not a whole lot of time. >> oh, time is absolutely against them. it has been from the moment this began, this tragedy took place. here's an interesting thought, though, wolf. if they still believe -- and bear with me on this. if they still believe that they are in the right location and there is no debris on the surfa...

Authority, even in their announcement today of what the search is that will be taking place on friday australia time, they refer again to this international group based that's refining that inmarsat data. they're continuing to refine where they believe the plane would have been when it went down. >> kl being kuala lumpur. we know that the australian ship "the ocean shield" and the u.s. navy towed pinger locator, they're looking for the so-called black boxes. the british ship "echo" is there. does that give you reason to believe they may be on to something? >> well, wolf, not really. what it te...