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Square miles. >> right. you've got about 24 -- well, about 18 square miles this way. >> right. >> between these pings. the first ping they got was a two-hour journey here. so for two hours they were within somehow within that -- that reach of the pinger. these others are what i'm going to call outliers. >> why is there such a discrepancy, if you will, in the duration of the time? you think this is the most reliable, the two hours plus. >> without a doubt. >> then what happened here? >> what happened down here is they're trying to rule out other areas because they're trying to say is this a fal...

See the plane, then that is really new territory. >> they'll be able to see the plane. will they be able to see all of the plane? because there's, what, 20 meters, in some cases, of silt on the ocean floor. you were telling us about this silt. will that cause visibility problems? what kind of challenges will that present? >> yes, it's absolutely true that it's visibility problems, probably. it might also be sound problems. it might be that the pinger -- and remember, they're still searching or listening to this ping -- that the silt might actually affect that in some ways. but to be honest, we...

You deploy a canister from a moving aircraft and it releases a little microphone when it hits the water and the microphone goes down about 1,000 feet and it has a surface float that can send the sound signals to the plane that it was launched from so we're actually getting the sonic information from below. but we're getting it in realtime to the aircraft above. >> is this method as accurate as the tpl, the towed pinger locater? >> yeah, i think so. they are all very high fidelity microphones. it's actually pretty astounding that it actually works. because if the pinger was actually on the bott...

How much more narrow do we need it before the robots go in. >> the thousand sand fofoot lev doesn't say it's not here. it does say i'm getting something here, let's explore it. you look at the path where the ocean shield went and if you get this other pinger, let's look up here a little bit since we know there's some kind of signal there, let's find out if it's legitimate and the lower level. >> we've forgotten how many aircraft are out looking for floating debris and they've seen nothin nothing. >> again goes back to the importance of the maritime aircraft and looking for surface debris and t...

Your interest. >> absolutely. m they're used in this area, not necessarily for civilial but military aircraft. they can start triangulation and hear signals from multiple so sonobuoys and put a pinger or on the target of interest and searc search. >> i want to run the videos of these sonbuoys, as they get thrown out of the aircraft. one of the things we haven't seen, as it crosses over, you will see the sonobuoy flying. i find this fascinating. walk me through what we're seeing? >> this is the pc orion, it's