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447, three vehicles in the water at one time. thisr triples productivity and allows you to have systems to work cooperatively together to increase the effectiveness of the search that's going on. >> does that make sense, rob, to bring in other equipment, and you'd do it simultaneously, bluefin-21, remus 6,000, presumably other equipment brought in as well? >> there is. it's a question of what it is you're trying to achieve. if you're trying to achieve a very detailed analysis of a small area, as we are with the pinger locations, then an auv with a short range but high resolution sonar package ...

Of airlineratings.com. good to see all of you. welcome to the week, it's monday now. bluefin-21 has already scanned two-thirds of the search zone. if it continues to find nothing, what is plan "b"? >> well, it's a very good question, don, and a question that everybody here in perth, western australia, is asking. look, they may well extend to one of the other pinger locations. they may move it and do another 10k radius around one of the other spots, but they are also looking at a wider strategy of other vehicles that they can bring to bear and perhaps a wider search with slightly less definitio...

The pings, there was an assumption that this could take months and it was taking months in an environment in which we were prepared to take months. so we'll just keep going. >> and one potential phase of a future search, shifting much of it to private contractors and in that search it took more than 75 days over the course of two years to find the wreckage and they even have debris to work off of. this is certainly a difficult situation for investigators. >> pamela brown, thank you so much. let's bring in our best panel of experts. miles o'brien, an ocean search specialist and rob mccallum. ro...

Viewers anyway who have just come out of a winter, it's very much like a hard-packed snow with a light dusting of powder on top. for sonar searching, what you're getting is you're throwing sound out into the water and it's being bounced back off objects and returned to back, in this case bluefin. depending on what the sound is hitting, it gives a different kind of return. it will enable searchers to distinguish between the natural terrain, the mud if you like, and anything human made like aircraft parts. >> it's no surprise to you, rob, that nothing has been found so far? >> no. obviously the ...

Future? >> it really depends on how these pinger locations work out. you know, the search controller is obviously very confident in the location that the ping verse been heard at f those pan out to be correct, then bluefin may strike it lucky. but if there's any doubt about that or if this drags on another week or two or we get bad weather as we move into winter, then for certain, we will have to move into deep towed sonar. >> the calendar is clicking away, sometime definitely not on our side. rob mccallum, thanks so much for joining us from seattle. we appreciate it. folks at home, wither t...