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Four orange objects spotted sunday, thought to be a compelling lead. those four objects are not from the plane. they are fishing junk. this morning an australian vessel, the "ocean shield," will make its way to the search area, carrying a high-tech u.s. navy pinger detector. it can scan under water for the plane's data boxes. cnn's paula newton joins us now, live in perth, australia. certainly, those four pieces, the pieces of orange debris, thought to be a good lead, now an empty lead. searchers frustrated here. >> reporter: absolutely. and you know when we talk to them when they get off thos...

For flight 370 is ramping up this morning as the clock ticks down on that remaining battery life on the plane's black box recorders. it is estimated they will only ping for about 30 days, and time is running out. as christine said, about six days left. ten aircraft, ten ships will be scouring the search zone in the indian ocean today west of australia, looking for any sign of flight 370. australian officials had described four orange objects spotted sunday as a promising lead, but they've just confirmed to cnn they are not related to the plane. they're just pieces of fishing equipment. this mo...

He's on board the "uss blue ridge" in the philippine sea. welcome, sir. >> hello, thank you for having me. >> thank you so much for being with me. before we get to the pinger detector i want to talk about this later debris. one is rectangular and gray/green and the other is circular and orange. what does that tell you >> i'm watching the news reports probably as you are, intrigued and just a little bit hopeful that we can get some solid evidence and confirmation here. what i would call this is this is a testament to this international cooperative effort. you have the united states here, the se...

Day voyage out to the search area. but it's unlikely they'll be able to deploy the pinger detector until they've massively narrowed the search area, which means, of course, trying to find at least some wreckage. now, captain mark matthews, who's the u.s. navy commander who's in charge of the pinger operation, was on hand here in perth today, and he had a mixed message. he said that it could well be that the pings from the black box will last at least another 15 days, maybe slightly fainter, which means that we could still be -- we could have up to 45 days to find that black box. but he also wa...