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Australia to help hunt for flight 370. today's designated search area has actually moved a few hundred miles closer to australia. a top priority, trying to find the flight data recorder before the batteries die in its locater beacon. before they can search the ocean bottom for the boeing 777 and its black boxes, searchers first need to find some floating wreckage that can help pinpoint where to look. arnold carr is president of american under water search and survey, his company not involved in this search, but they have been part of many missions like it. arnold, these searches go through dis...

Flight that was going from rio to paris and it crashed. there was some wreckage found not too long after the flight crashed, after the plane crashed. it took a couple of years to find the black boxes. could this be a more realistic case when you are looking at flight 370 where you don't have a lot of information about where it went down? >> with the air france flight, there was a lot of debris floating on the surface. that's the debris that was brought back right away. the search started immediately on the ocean bottom. they had a much better idea of where to start the search because they did ...

What happens. when you ping and then you wait for it to come back, if you're going too fast, the ship is here and ping won't get to the translouiser on the bottom of the boat. so five miles per hour. one mile width. that's five square miles per hour of the ocean. there's 130 million square miles of the ocean bottom. i did the math. i divided it all up. if you never stopped for fuel and you never stopped for new sailors, it would take you 2,955 years to map the ocean with one ship. >> wait, that's all of the earth's oceans, or that is specifically the area where they're searching. >> the area w...

Question earlier. i said, four weeks in how worried are you that the odds of finding the plane are decreasing. you have numbers for us? >> if you can narrow this down. i spoke with david earlier tonight. and he was saying trying to narrow it down with the satellite data they may have some leads. but we are working with the auv. i have mapped 1800 square miles of ocean bottom with the same auv model, one size smaller. and it takes time. the auv. so we're looking at a 10,000-square-mile area. which is 100 miles by 100 miles. that is a fraction of what they're looking at. you are going to take 2 ...

More advanced tools and had more information, and from that it took six months of analysis work in our shop here in d.c. we identified an area of the ocean that we thought was very probable where the plane might be. we call at it hot spot in our probability map. and that's in fact exactly where bea and their team went and found the wreckage on the ocean bottom. >> let's hope they can find this one as will. van gurley, good to see you. >> now your retirement plan could be ripping you off. tens of thousands of doors of fees. fees? do you flow about these fee -- know about these fees? jerri willi...