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Assets out there. and you said it's not just like that that they can turn those around and move them in different places. it takes a while. thus the cliche to turn a ship around takes a lot. >> the nuclear submarine from britain can go at about 35 knots but relative to the aircraft that is pretty slow. if you imagine it has to cover 1,000 miles to redeploy to a search area that takes a day and a half. and this is a critical time. the pings are running out. and when they go, these ping locators will be defungt. >> if you are just tuning in these are live pictures from perth, australia. this is ...

Ntsb investigation with a party system, with getting all the people, all the experts from power plants, from everywhere they can, putting them together. that's a great, great thing to happen. i don't know how many people listened to that whole process. but it's wonderful to see. and i was also encouraged by the fact that they're utilizing every aspect of the data making their assumption. lower altitudes, higher altitudes. they're looking at every aspect. and i was very encouraged by it. >> and i'm sure this makes mike happy they talked so much about data and information they're getting because...

I'm not sure what the inspection is about. i guess it has to do with australian regulations. my concern is if they're going to the right area with this ship anyhow and the fact that at least they're doing two different type of searches. they're looking for debris and they're looking for the -- >> right. >> -- airplane itself. >> but if you have the six hours delay, that's half day or more of search lost, and we only have six days left, mike, for those batteries. >> you're absolutely right searching for anything in the pitch-black is a nightmare. but as les was saying, the key to this is findin...

Focused on sort of the tactical level activity over the last week, the search, the aircraft, the ping locators. i think i'd like to go and see conversations at the international level again, looking -- reengaging with inmarsat, just seeing the data is right. what we should be doing is chasing data to corroborate that it's gone south. but also, because we don't have enough information to rule out any other options, we need to be looking at data to rule out anything that has gone north or west. >> les? >> this may already be happening. we're not privy to the inside of this investigation. >> i ag...

Our operations is increasing, not decreasing. >> what the families have wanted, obviously, besides getting their family members back, but they have wanted someone to be in charge, someone with authority, someone to give them information. and i think that's exactly what they have gotten. just in this press conference, michael kay. i don't know if you agree. i think this is probably the best information that they have gotten so far. and it also offers them some hope that their loved ones won't be forgotten soon in this process of searching. >> i think it does. and in the absence of any critical ...