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Actually looking in the right place. so he's on the money. he has been saying that. you know, what happens, jeff, when the bluefin finishes the current search area? do you find a new place to look for or use different technology to research the same area? >> i'm really with jim and david on this one. you know, the australians assured us that they had reason to believe, very strong reasons to believe that these pings correlated with the aircraft and that we would very soon be in possession or know the whereabouts of the wreckage. that hasn't panned out. so then i think we really have to say, ok...

To believe, very strong reasons to believe that these pings correlated with the aircraft and that we would very soon be in possession or know the whereabouts of the wreckage. that hasn't panned out. so then i think we really have to say, okay, this appears that this was a false positive. we don't know what generated this false positive or how it could have come about. seems that it was not the black box pinger. it was something else. therefore, why did australia make this assumption? why did they think this was wreckage? and really, i mean, we're all frustrated because we all want to understan...

Gary tuchman, cnn, los angeles. >> let's turn back to our panel. richard and david, david, for full disclosure, the rema 6,000, your pride and joy. you're from woods hole, that's where gary was during the report. besides that, are there -- what other vehicles do you think at this search phase would work in a search like this and was the bluefin 21 not the right -- >> no, i think bluefin was. in fact, remember, the idea was what captain mathews called a tactical survey. they had the pinger, they were going to throw the dart. bluefin was fine. got the job done and still got a lot of days to go. ...

Questions, those 26 specific questions. where do you lie? what do you think happened? >> yeah, those 26 questions, we had sent to the authorities. none of the questions have been answered so far. and, if they are searching in the south indian sea, we don't know based on what data they have. we don't know. >> it is the pinger they heard on april 9th. and also the fuel consumption patterns and the satellite data. it is the best clues they have. >> well, what they are saying from -- right from day one, if you remember, that that is impossible -- these are the words they are using but they are not...

That we actually are searching in the right place. there's nowhere better to consider. >> rob, i know you think they are probably honing in on the right general area, but if those pings turned out to be a false lead, really, i mean, how much of a problem is it? are they just nowhere, then? do they have to reexamine everything from the very beginning? >> well, you know, when we first heard that the pinger had been located or it had had been heard and the controllers had a great deal of confidence in those signals, i mean, it was almost too good to be true. and if it is too good to be true and i...