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Location. i think it may yield small pieces of evidence. egypt air that crashed in the ocean it was a different type of ocean bottom. but each piece helped and here,y would be curious was it a in- flight operation due to high speed or separation that occurred as a result of corrosion. there may be small pieces of information that the investigators may get, but it is a largeand i emphasize small pieces may come out in examination of that flapperon. >> and it came from outside of the fuselage and one of the theories. we'll not know unless we find the black boxes or fusel age. one of the theories...

Air france 447. and that was like this, a layered search. the first thing you need to do is find debris on the surface and use some of the mathematical techniques that we've developed with others to take all that information and figure out how to search the ocean bottom. so as soon as you get an idea of where to start looking and you can find the search area a little bit more, then you start using these assets that are being brought in to start going to the ocean bottom. two things you're looking for there. first, the listening devices to try to pick up the pingers before the batteries fade. t...

>> if they can narrow that search area down to something that's reasonable and not even 300,000 square miles, then they can actually get sea assets out there that can run tide scan sonar to map the ocean bottom in that area and they can drag a sonar or audible listening device, listening for the pings as they run those lines and map the ocean floor looking for the wreckage like they did with air france. >> greg, how long would it take to get those sea assets on location? we know that there is a commercial ship that was diverted, a merchant ship that could be arriving in that area any minute no...

First. >> that's a great point. is that measured by the buoy system we have? can you explain that? >> caller: it is. it's a part of it. it's a small part of it. it's a deep ocean network of gauges and they are anchored to the ocean bottom. there's a device on the ocean bottom that measures the height of the ocean, basically. it's sensitive to down to a few millimeters, i believe. it relays up to satellite and it only sends us information about once every six hours unless there's an event because it has limited battery power. so we get that information and they are called dart. the dart buoys e...

Bp officials are sounding upbeat so far about how things are moving on. >> once we do that, this can lead to one of two positive outcomes. it could tell us the well is with holding the pressure and we can shut the well in or just cap it. if there's a need, we can produce oil and have enough platforms up on the surface to contain the oil and produce it. either way, those are two pretty good outcomes. >> of course, off the top there, you mentioned the relief wells. those are really going to continue to be the main way of essentially killing the well for good. this containment cap, even if it is ...