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On their hands for that black box to provide the proof of what happened on flight 370. >> yeah, pamela, thanks very much. back with our panel. this is a dumb question. but i question or david gallo, is there value in retrieving cell phones from the depth? >> i have been meaning to check on that. but it's all part of the -- if there are clues to be had it's worth doing. >> it's interesting that the bluefin has searched 90 square kilometers. that is a small area. >> it takes it six times as long to search the same area that could be searched in a day by the towed ping locator. and that was why t...

I suppose in some ways it is expected on day 39. those pingers are meant to last for at least 30 days. so we're well past that use by date for the batteries on those black boxes. i think a lot of people were expecting we would get to this phase. they've been desperately hoping to get another one, two, or more pings. they use them to triangulate, if you like, to narrow down the search area. the ping locator that is being towed along behind the ocean shield or has been until now. it is not a directional receiver, if you like. it is omnidirectional. so it gets an idea but not to pinpoint it. the ...

To cover the entire search area, so this is a laborious process. you mentioned the oil slick? that was found in the general search area where that australian ship, the "ocean shield" has been towing the ping locator. they've taken a 2-liter sample of that, brought it back here to perth in western australia. it will take a couple of days to analyze it. they're not sure whether it's related or not. and finally, the other headline out of that briefing was that they're probably going to be scaling down the sea and air search for debris, which was taking place several hundred miles further west of ...

Something to say and he did name a number of developments. when it comes to the submersible, the bluefin-21, this is the same ship it's on that has been towing that ping locator, the "ocean shield." what they're doing, though, is they're having to pull up that locator that they've been towing and they're going to put down -- in fact, they were to have put down the submersible at 5:00 a.m. eastern, about half an hour ago. we don't have confirmation it's gone in, but it should have gone in in the last half hour. it's going to begin a very tedious search of the bottom of the ocean. that's 450,000...

Heading up this search. the main one is that they've decided they're not going to hear any more pings from this flight data recorders. and they're going to have to deal with the search area they've narrowed down to now. they were hoping against hope they would get more pings which would help them narrow it down even further. the area they're dealing with is about 1,300 square kilometers. later today they are going on pull up that ping locator and lower the bluefin submersible. it is a 24-hour operation to do one sweep of about 40 square kilometers. two hours down, 16 hours going along at a wal...