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>> reporter: and possible new evidence. >> an oil slick in the search vicinity. we'll investigate those to the conclusion. >> reporter: it's been six days since the last pings were detected in the south indian ocean. searchers believe the pinger batteries are probably dead. so they've retired the pinger locator and launched bluefin-21. the underwater vehicle will skin the sea floor for wreckage. >> i'll caution you to not raise hopes that the deployment of the autonomous underwater vehicle will detect aircraft wreckage. it may not. >> reporter: bluefin is concentrating on a roughly 500-square ...

Can. he's been very good about this. i've been saying before about accident investigations. the key to a good investigation is not to draw conclusions for people but to provide them with the facts which he has done. he's done a really good job of that. i really admire him for how he handled that. >> so why are the facts making you feel positive? >> he's not drawing a conclusion based on the facts but what i'm looking at is that for two hours they received a solid ping. all these other pings that they have received are artifacts. they're not solid. they're not saying, i'm here. i did some math....

>> it happened in the very far corner of the area it's searching, so they are just shifting the search box a little bit away from that deep water and proceeding with the search. >> and a question for you on the black boxes. there's been a constant reference, you know, commander marks referred to it as a pinger. angus houston has referred to "a pinger." obviously, there were two black boxes on the plane, but the use of "a pinger" is purposeful. are you confident you're going to find both recorders or is it safe to say you'd only picked up signal from one? >> it's very difficult to differentiate...

Ukraine. and we keep playing this game. what they want is a friendly government in ukraine. they're trying to manage whatever political transformation in ukraine to make sure that whoever comes in in this next election is friendly to russia. they want a federalized system which is more chance for russia to wreak its influence there. >> the temperature is going up and up. >> definitely. >> the search for flight 370 is about to enter the next phase. authorities the are warning we could be in it for the long hall. the search for pinger locator ships is all but over. the belief is that the batteri...

Or insignificant. how do the audio experts tell the difference. >> i did a simulation of the pinger output to give you an idea of what we're listening for. [ pinging ] >> nice and clear, crisp, sharp and evenly pulsed. >> but underwater with other echos and wild life sea life, man made noises, swishing of water flow and so on and so fort, this is what the ocean sounds like with the pinger sound embedded in it. and the job, of course, is to try to identify and bring out what we're looking for.