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When objects are spotted by the human eye, boat crews scour the water with nets. if debris is confirmed to be related to the missing plane, an oceanographer like dr. ryan abernathy from columbia university can figure out where the airplane hit the water by using satellite data. >> what we're looking at is a nasa satellite that orbits the earth and measures very precisely the height of the sea's surface clearly seen in these colored boxes. >> what we take is what these satellites measure, and then we plug it into a computer program that uses those currents to move material around, you know, ins...

To find it. despite the clues, families of the passengers are a fed up and demand answer. >> we want evidence. we want truth, and we want our family. >> good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. welcome to our special coverage. just six days remain. that's when the batteries could die on the black box data recorder from malaysia airlines flight 370. flight 370. that battery means no pings signaling the plane's location. though there have been a few promising pings, timing is becoming more precious now. in australia, where the search effort is based, i want to begin with cnn's will ripley. he is f...

Bluefin 21, the underwater drone submarine as well. but essentially, its purpose, until we have a more narrow search area, its purpose is going to be a search vessel, just like the seven chinese ships that are going to be in the area, the two australian ships in the area with a thousand sailors who are literally standing along the deck, just like we are right now, holding up binoculars, looking out over the ocean, scanning tscan ing the ocean to see what they see. when you're doing that hours on end, your mind starts to play tricks on you. you have to rely on the visuals. if we're looking for ...

From australia and we have rosa flores here. this is just in from hmstuwumba has made best speed and entered the area. there we go, the ship has made its way into the area where we believe the objects were found. and so they are -- made good time on saturday afternoon. so there we go. we have that ship. we've also got the ship that will is out shadowing. and then we have this new information that rosa flores is bringing us. i want to get to you first, colleen. what do you make of rosa's information here talking about, you know, if the origination of two different places in the ocean where obje...

You have all the time you want. >> all right, don, let's go back. what we're having to do is pull away. we need to get back behind a buoy a little farther from the ocean shield. we can zoom in and give you this up close look. once we get out on the ocean, don, we will be able to show you this ship in action. ocean shield is a really fascinating vessel. this is a civilian vessel. some news have been reporting it's a warship. that's not true. this began as a civilian vessel. the australian navy uses it for humanitarian purposes. the eventual goal is actually for customs and border protection her...