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Marinetraffic.com, which tracks vessels on the ocean's water, that it actually had moved into the search area. the "hms echo" had moved into the search area around where they think the black box pinger is located, and the "ocean shield" had actually moved out of the area by some kilometers, and that could be significant, given that the british vessel, the "hms echo" is equipped not just with sensitive audio detection equipment, but it's also equipped with equipment capable of mapping the ocean floor. now, we reached out to australian officials for comment on this. they say they are looking int...

[ inaudible ] -- perth released a statement this morning, in which he said the "ocean shield" with the american pinger towed locator is still trying to detect signals, but no mention of the british vessel, the "hms echo" that we also know is in the area. and that's perhaps interesting. we were on a website called mari marinetraffic.com, which tracks marine vessels, and showed as of three hours ago, the "ocean shield" had moved out of the search field that they are looking at for this pinger. it moved out by some kilometers, and then the "hms echo" had moved into the center. now, that's interes...

>> welcome back to our special coverage. searchers are race to find more clues this hour to find the missing airliner. 30 crew members are aboard the ocean shield right now. it is towing a pinger locator that has already found four pings. time is running out to get as much information as searchers can before the pings stop all together. i want to bring in brian todd in washington and his unique work. >> the pinger locator. on board the ocean shield from phoenix international. control rooms on board the ocean shield, their job is to do nothing but listen for those sounds and watch these monitor...

>> we are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. >> reporter: his tone stronger and more upbeat compared to the careful wording two days ago from the man coordinating the search. >> i think that we're looking in the right area, but i'm not prepared to say, to confirm anything until such time as somebody lays eyes on the wreckage. >> reporter: but with rumors flying, the black boxes were located overnight, angus houston released a statement saying, "there has been no major breakthrough in the search for mh-370." over the past week, ocean ...

The right area but i'm not prepared to say -- to confirm anything until such time as somebody lays eyes on the wreckage. >> reporter: but with rumors flying, the black boxes were located overnight. angus houston released a statement saying, quote, there has been no major breakthrough in the search for flight 370. over the past weekend, "ocean shield" detected four pings within 15 miles of each other. excitement over a possible fifth ping vanished overnight. the signal, a sonobuoy picked up, was not from the black boxes. >> a signal, from what we are very confident are the black boxes is starti...