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Doing their own thing under this broader umbrella. >> i want to go to ocean search specialist mike williamson. we understand from the australians that they were notified of this report by xinhua. it has not yet been confirmed but they were notified around lunchtime, which would be maybe 8 to 12 hours ago, just an estimate there. at what point in this confirmation process should the searchers be now? >> well, actually what i'd like to insert here before i answer your question is 37.5 kilohertz is the unique frequency for these pingers. for the same reason that that frequency was chosen for the ...

Sonars out there. and so if somebody is testing one of those, and turns it on for a short period of time, you would get a number of pings separated by a second. we need to know more about the signal, and then the search group in perth can figure out what to do with it. >> and also, people should know that there is a lot of ship traffic, and sea life in the southern indian ocean, and does it impact the ability to hear the pings? >> 37.5 kilohertz is a pretty frequency that is pretty clear in the ocean spectrum, however, there are dolphins that can make clicking sounds, and i believe 37.5 kilohe...