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The "ocean shield" and where it went, making the turns, going up this way and coming back down. you can see they're attempting to make a grid along this arc. you saw the arc before. >> yeah. >> that was in here before. now you can see that you're starting to pick up these pings. you have a two-hour ping and few others. some are outside, way far away. >> this seems scattered to the uninitiated eye. there is a method to this? >> absolutely, there is. you can see they're starting to come together here. partly the reason the way it is is because when you're dragging the pinger you have to pull it ...

They can literally quiet down the ship just as it did with the "ocean shield." the "ocean shield" had to do that as well. the thought with more ears, sonar buoys and the "echo" along with the "shield," they don't know how long their luck will hold on with the batteries. >> talk to me further about what kind of information this latest detection can offer. they obviously say they need more analysis but what kind of analysis are they going to go through right now to help inform their search? >> the most important thing is how many sounds are they hearing? can they locate one source on the bottom?...

Plane. a very difficult situation for people here in malaysia. also for people in china and many of them are sitting and waiting. don? >> thank you very much. i want to bring in now mike dean. he's the deputy director of salvage and diving for the u.s. naechl and jeffrey thomas is the editor and chief of airline ratings.com. thank you to you gentlemen for joining us. the head of the search angus houston is predicting they will find the plane or wreckage soon. are you as optimistic? what are you hearing from your sources there? >> look, absolutely, don. i'm very optimistic. both on the record...

Stage in this search. as far as we know right now, the "ocean shield" equipped with that american-operated towed pinger locator is still out there scouring the oceans, trying to pick up more pings. and yesterday, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating this multinational effort, saying that the more pings they manage to reacquire, the more information they have to be able to narrow down a search and then deploy that underwater autonomous vehicle. he also said that they wanted to be certain that they had exhausted that effort in terms of making sure that the batteries had completely...

Operation. she said that it is moving because that, at the moment, is the most promising lead. she also noted everyone pretty much has discounted the detections of the chinese vessel made over the weekend. as for what exactly it is going to be doing when it arrives, she said that is unclear. she said at the moment the "ocean shield" is taking the lead in this operation. worth noting of course that the "hms echo" is equipped with sophisticated sound-detecting equipment and technology that would enable it to map the ocean floor. at the moment we do not have any information or any sort of confirm...