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Pinger locator goes down and sweeps that area first. the towed pinger locator can go down as far as 20,000 feet below the surface of the sea. it can detect the pinger from up to two miles away, even if it is fading. these developments overnight and mid day in the region are very encouraging. of course, we know it does not necessarily mean that they have found the black box, but it is encouraging. the next step now that they have gotten the signals is to send the bluefin 21 down to that area where the signals were picked up. the bluefin 21 looks like a torpedo. it goes down to significant depth...

Looking for a debris field, looking for the black box, trying to take both audio and physical video images of whatever is down there. it's got side-scan sonar capability, it's got picture-taking capability, not video, but still pictures. it will sweep over the area, take a series of still pictures, transmit it to the vessel on the surface, so they can kind of see what they're looking at, don. that's the sequence. first the pinger locator finds the signal, then the bluefin 21 goes down and sweeps the area, so that's probably what they're preparing to do right now. >> our thanks to brian todd fo...