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Four, half a dozen more pings to start to narrow that search area down from the 500 square miles that rene reported it currently is. >> and, rene, you're there for us still. what are you hearing from your sources right now? do they anticipate that, you know, the next few hours they're going to be able to announce maybe there have been some more pings? >> you know, at this point, we don't know if there have been any more pings. we do know that hms echo now in the vicinity, wolf. we know that it has the capability of listening as well. it has passive sonar. also has the ability to map the ocean ...

He dropped 35,000 feet, seven smiles to the deepest place on earth. he's turning the scientific mission into a movie. >> that need to see what's there, beyond the edge of your lights, to see the unknown for yourself. >> the pressure at nearly 15,000 feet is crushing. and very few man submarines can even withstand it. >> there are only half a dozen subs that can go to basically half the ocean depth, with a number of countries having that capability. it gets to the point of collapse. it basically implodes. it just crushes. >> finding the plane is daunting. bringing it back from the deep, even mo...

Ever to finding this missing malaysian airlines flight 370? the search area in the indian ocean this morning has narrowed after two new signals were detected. >> erik van sebille is an oceanographer at the university of new south wales. he joins us now via skype from sydney, australia. >> good morning. >> it is a long-distance connection this morning. thank you so much for being with us. at this point, erik, where do you see the search going? they've now detected four separate pings from what they believe to be the black boxes. they've got the "hms echo," a second ship coming up to this region...

Signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes on two separate occasions. i can tell you that "ocean shield" has been able to reacquire the signals on two more occasions. late yesterday afternoon and late last night perth time. the detection yesterday afternoon was held for approximately five minutes and 32 seconds. the detection late last night was held for approximately seven minutes. "ocean shield" has now detected four transmissions in the same broad area. yesterday's signals will assist in better defining a reduced and much more manageable search area on the ocean floor. i ...

So the priority of this search operation right now, very much rests with the ocean shield, the australian vessel equipped with the american operate d ping locator. still scouring the waters trying to pick up any more detections. the more detections they make, the more they are able to narrow down a potential search field to try and find the source of that signal. and once they do that, they will then deploy the bluefin 21 which is an american provided autonomous underwater vehicle capable of searching the ocean floor for actual wreckage. and that's really what they say they need at this point ...