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But it's worth saying that the "hms echo" has sophisticated sound-detecting equipment, but it's also capable of mapping the sea floor. officials here in australia are not commenting on this development in the search at the moment, but not saying whether or not this might signal perhaps a new stage of this search. for all we know, as you say, the "ocean shield" is currently out there, equipped with that american towed pinger locator, scouring the waters, trying to detect more signals from this black box pinger. and angus houston, who's the man, the chief coordinator behind this multinational se...

>> yeah, erin, that latest ping coming from a sonar buoy. these planes that have been out there, this is really an added tool to the ship that has been towing around that ping locator. what the planes do, they can carry up to 84 of those things. and they've been peppering the ocean near the ocean shield vessel where which picked up of course the four pings since last saturday. these buoys drop a line a thousand feet down into the ocean, and they listen. well, it seems one of them got a hit, a ping within the frequency range. all the data recorder. and according to researchers, has the potentia...

Ship, an oceanography ship, the hms echo. it's going to work with the ocean shield to look at the ocean floor. it casts a two-mile wide echo ping down to the ocean floor, hoping to get a ping back from the wreckage. so it's a big development to get that out there to help the ocean shield while other ships are looking for wreckage several hundred miles away where expert says it might have drifted. erin? >> thank you very much to you, michael. those first planes out of the gate are from new zealand tonight. we're going to be joined by the commander in charge of the search live in a moment. i wan...

It's something that was made by man, and i really have no idea what it would be other than an acoustic beacon. >> reporter: searchers who are towing that pinger locator behind the australian ship "the ocean shield" have detected it four times -- first two on saturday. as time has passed, they are noticing that the signals picked up tuesday are not as strong as who they heard on saturday. >> that means probably we're either a long way away from it, or in my view, more likely, the batteries are starting to fade, and the consequence is the signal becoming weaker. >> reporter: two dozen airplanes ...

Ocean shield is towing this pinger locater searching for flight night. my experts are back to answer your questions for you. this tweet is for david. it says will the extreme cold of the deep ocean help pinger batteries last longer? any mathematical estimates from your experts? >> i don't think it will. it is supposed to go 30 days. it has a buffer but that includes the testing at cold, hot, whatever temperatures, but not hot hot temperatures, of course. but normal operating temperatures. the cold temperatures don't extend it. >> we have this the e-mail from pat sutton. she said earlier today,...